U.S. Army Major Achille C. Tisdell testifies before a military tribunal in Manila, Phillipines during the trial of Japanese Army General Masaharu Homma for World War II crimes. Major Tisdell, aide-de-camp to Commanding General of the American forces in Luzon Major General Edward King reads out an advisory note of the Chief of Imperial Japanese Army and Navy sent to the Americans on March 22, 1942. A member of the tribunal asks him whether there was any doubt that the Japanese had accepted the American surrender. Major Tisdell also testifies about the location of American headquarters and the surrender by the Americans.
U.S. Army Major Achille C. Tisdell testifies before a military tribunal in Manila, Phillipines during the trial of Japanese Army General Masaharu Homma for World War II crimes. Major Tisdell, aide-de-camp to Commanding General of the American forces in Luzon Major General Edward King, is asked about a base hospital. He says that injured American soldiers were taken care of. He also says that enough ration was available for American troops in Bataan. He testifies that Major General Edward King was taken from Camp O'Donell to a camp at Tarlac. A member of the tribunal asks about the time when the order of the surrender was issued. Tisdell replies that he does not remember the exact time. He also talks about December 1941 when he worked in an artillery section in Manila. A woman at a typewriter as Major Tisdell testifies.
Attacking Japanese aircraft overhead of Task Group 77.4.1 ("Taffy 1") during the Battle of Leyte Gulf in World War II. Navy Captain M.E. Browder of USS Sangamon on bridge, talks into radio and scans skies. Gun crews in 20MM gun pits. Japanese planes overhead and many flak bursts over water. Ship on horizon activating signal blinker.
U.S. sailors stand on deck of a U.S. cruiser and look at the Light Cruiser, USS Denver (CL-58),sitting closer to the shore. Another sailor, smoking a pipe, sits on deck with triple guns of the cruiser seen behind him. A sailor approaches and speaks with him. Two sailors play backgammon on deck. Several sailors drink coffee. The superstructure of the cruiser, in camouflage paint, visible behind them. A sailor, performing duties on deck,in front of a triple gun turret, turns a large wheel. Several vessels moving in the area. Closeup of the USS Denver, in camouflage. officers on deck with the Denver in near background. Brief view of Corregidor Island. A line of U.S. Cruisers making way (including the USS Denver). Several destroyers. Warships in open formation. A destroyer in camouflage. Corregidor Island. A Benson class destroyer.
A U.S. Vought OS2U Kingfisher scout plane flies low over the water near Corregidor Island, during World War 2. View of sailor standing next to a Kinfisher plane, on deck, with a destroyer in camouflage underway, in near background. Smoke rising over Corregidor Island, from Navy bombardment. Pilot climbing aboard a Kingfisher scout plane. Sailor gives launch signal, with a flag, and the plane is catapulted. Another scout plane is launched from number 2 catapult. A Kingfisher in flight. View of Corregidor from shipboard. A destroyer bombarding the island closein. Crew members in steel helmets and face and eye protection, at a gun station. Officers on bridge of cruiser, observing through binoculars. A Cleveland Class, single stack, light cruiser. Officers on bridge of the camera cruiser. Two destroyers underway. Sailors in an antiaircraft gun position. A Brooklyn Class light cruiser.
A pallet containing several flag-draped coffins of those who perished in the October 26, 1966 fire, aboard the USS Oriskany (CVA-34) are lowered to a pier from the ship, by crane. Several clergymen in robes stand on the pier. A flag on ship at half mast. Honor guard on pier with rifles. Sailors wheel the pallet of coffins across the pier. U.S. Navy Catholic Chaplain, Fr.Conall Richard Coughlin (who is stationed at Subic Bay) and the ship's Chaplain (Lt Commander) officiate on the ship's deck as coffins are placed on pallets.(The ship's own Catholic Chaplain, LCDR William John Garrity, perished, performing his duties, on October, 26, 1966, and is among these dead ). Sailors aboard the Oriskany open boxes of American flags as they prepare the coffins for transfer. Honor guard with rifles stand at parade rest on the pier. Church officials on the pier. A C-130 transport aircraft sits nearby with its rear door open ready to receive the coffins.