USS Ommaney Bay (CVE-79) in the Philippines. The ship burns from a Japanese kamikaze suicide crash. Other CVEs, U.S. AO (Auxilliary Oiler) passes in foreground. USS Ommaney Bay burns and explodes. Large smoke columns rise. (World War II period).
American float plane OS2U catapulted and bombardment at San Fernando Beach in Philippines. Funeral services aboard USS Mississippi (BB-41) for casualties of USS Ommaney Bay (CVE-79), which had been struck by Japanese kamikaze aircraft. OS2U aircraft catapulted from battleship. Smoke column rises from bombardment at San Fernando Beach. (World War II period).
U.S. Navy vessels in the Philippines. American float plane OS2U lands in slick. Destroyer underway at sea. Many antiaircraft bursts in air in the background. Battleship fires 14 inch guns at Japanese enemy targets. Many auxiliary ships and Landing Ships Tank (LSTs) in Lingayen Gulf on "S" Day. Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) and many other landing crafts underway. Destroyer bombards beach, LCIs in background. LCIs near beach fire. An island in the background. (World War II period).
The USS Mississippi (BB-41) underway in the Philippines during World War 2. Crewmen aboard USS Mississippi using water hoses to put out deck fire caused by Kamikaze suicide bomber aircraft. Men clean up debris on deck around 5" guns.
A patrol liberates United States and Filipino prisoners of war in the Philippines during World War II. U.S.. Army soldiers fire artillery and mortars on battlefield. Smoke arises from firing. Soldiers approach a chaplain, one by one, to receive prayers and pardon. Soldiers load shells in various artillery and fire. They move toward a hillside and advance up the hill. Soldiers passing bodies of dead soldiers. Soldiers carrying wounded back downhill on stretchers. Graphic shows movement of U.S. forces down through plains toward Cabantuan prisoner of war camp. Allied guerilla forces and U.S. Army Rangers move on a rescue mission 25 miles behind enemy lines, moving through fields and jungle areas. Staged scene of a soldier firing through a gate lock and entering the gate of the prisoners' camp. Soldiers who were victims of the Bataan Death March, now freed from their prisoner camp, walk in columns with Army escorts. Many are smiling. Some are emaciated. Local women and children watch them. Another group of liberated prisoners pass by in the back of a truck.
People run as a plane burns in Philippines. A stationary plane. Burning wreckage of another plane behind this plane. Thick black smoke rises up. People run away from the wreckage.