Filipino civilians at work in Manila, Philippines towards the end of World War II. Filipino women wash clothes. Water running from taps as the women wash clothes. A woman smiles. Clothes lines outside houses. Women hang clothes on the lines. A Filipino man climbs onto a huge container. Exteriors of a building with trees in the foreground. A damaged half ton truck outside the building. A man unloads bags from the half ton truck. People outside the building.
Unloading of equipment at Manila Harbor in the Philippines towards the end of World War II. Huge boxes lined up. Japanese characters on the boxes. A shell being lowered by a crane with a sign on it that reads ' USN '. A United States soldier on the deck of a ship as he looks on. A soldier aboard a ship in the foreground. A number of ships underway in the background. Soldiers tie a rope to wrecked equipment aboard a ship. The wrecked equipment is hoisted in a sling and is being lowered on a deck. A shell being lowered into water.
United States prisoners and British prisoners after being released from a Japanese prison camp at Cabanatuan in the Philippines during World War II. 511 Allied prisoners after being liberated from the Japanese prison camp. Soldiers get off a truck. Liberated soldiers share their experiences of the life at Japanese prison camps. British Sergeant Robert Fell speaks and says that he was taken prisoner in Singapore. He says that a number of prisoners lost their lives due to diphtheria, cholera and other diseases. He was taken to Thailand and brought back to Singapore from where the prisoners went aboard a Japanese ship. Majority of the prisoners lost their lives after the Japanese ship was sunk due to American air attack near Luzon. Then he was taken to the Cabanatuan prison camp. Another liberated prisoner Sergeant Samuel Goldy expresses gladness on being released by the Americans after 3 years of imprisonment.
Natives in Leyte, Philippines, during World War 2. Native women stand in a river to wash clothes. One wears a broad brimmed hat. They wash their clothes. Several strike the clothes with paddles, to clean them. A buffalo under a tree. Native children wearing American overseas caps, skivvy shirts and holding pineapples.
U.S. prisoners of war being escorted back to American lines, by Rangers of the U.S. Army 6th Battalion, Alamo Scouts, and Filipino guerrillas, after being freed from the Japanese prison at Cabanatuan, Philippines, in a daring raid behind Japanese lines, during World War 2. The rescuers stand with the freed prisoners. Some released prisoners march along and some prisoners ride in carabao carts. Trees in the area. Thatched huts in the background. Local women and children watch the liberated prisoners.
The invasion of the Philippines by Allied troops during World War II, liberating it from the Japanese. Aerial view of the city of Manila. Smoke rises from firing and bombardment. Houses and buildings in the city as seen from an aircraft flying low. A large building of a hospital marked with the Red Cross.