The liberated Santo Tomas concentration camp in Manila, Philippine Islands during World War II. Soldiers and Filipino civilians standing in the front yard of the Main Building of the University of Santo Tomas, used during the war as a concentration camp by the Japanese forces for Filipino prisoners and prisoners from the United States, United Kingdom and other Allied countries. Heavy columns of smoke rise from a building where an explosion has occurred. People in the yard are mainly curious. American soldiers drive into the yard in jeeps. A squad of American soldiers marches across the yard. Soldiers and civilians carry wounded on litters. Some damage seen on exterior of the University of Santo Tomas Main Building, with holes in the damaged building. Several U.S. soldiers on guard duty are silhouetted against the light sky. A dead and bloated Japanese soldier in a wrecked car. U.S. soldiers running take cover near a truck. Several mutilated and burned dead bodies in various stages of decomposition on the street.
Filipino women and girls greet United States soldiers in Bulacan, near Manila, Philippines during World War II. Soldiers stand beside a sign that reads 'Manila'. Filipino girls place flowers on the helmets of U.S. soldiers. The soldiers wave to Filipino natives on the road to Manila. A Filipino girl places flowers in soldiers' helmets. Soldiers playfully put flowers on top of Filipino girl’s head. A sign reads ‘Bigaa’ and 'Manila'. Soldiers aboard a jeep cross a river in a native ferry.
United States soldiers advance towards Manila, Philippines late in World War II. A dead Japanese sniper along a highway to Manila. U.S. Army soldiers with rifles march along both sides of the road. The soldiers drink beer in front of Balintawak Beer Brewery in Barrio Torres Bugallon, Polo, Bulacan (now part of Valenzuela City). The soldiers and Filipino civilians outside Balintawak Beer Brewery. A soldier drinks beer from helmet. The soldiers cross a bridge across a river. Allied liberated civilian prisoners in front of the University of Santo Tomas Main Building. They cheer and wave. A group of nurses walk. Street scenes in Manila. A soldier holds two children. Children stand on a tank in the middle of a street. Elderly freed prisoners talk to a soldier. The soldiers continue to walk. A jeep moves past. A soldier drinks water. They cross a pontoon bridge. Civilians gather outside a building. They wave. Girls walk. A soldier carries two children. Civilians and children climb aboard a tank and look in through the top. Three older freed men seated in chairs talk. Two of them are thin and emaciated from meager food rations.
Japanese air attack on U.S. ships underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War 2. Sailors clear rubble from a flooded compartment of USS Enterprise (CV-6) Aircraft Carrier after it was attacked by a Japanese Kamikaze suicide aircraft. Corpsmen carry casualty on a stretcher on the flight deck. Buckled deck planking. Damaged caused by Kamikaze aircraft strike in the vicinity of number one elevator. Crewmen remove debris. A damaged United States Navy F6F Hellcat aircraft on its nose. Another damaged aircraft is pushed.
A U.S. Navy aircraft burns on the deck of a ship underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. A United States Navy F6F Hellcat aircraft lands on the deck of a ship and explodes in flames. Fire fighters rush to the aircraft. They spray chemical foam and water on the fire and the burning belly tank.
United States troops occupy Okinawa during World War II. An Okinawan civilian speaks and another man with a mustache smiles. A medical syringe is placed on a table. An old Okinawan woman with a young girl are given a ride down a hill by a U.S. Marine.