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U.S. soldiers fire artillery in Manila, Philippines (WW2)
The Santo Tomas concentration camp in Manila, Philippine Islands during World War II. Exterior of a building inside the University of Santo Tomas internment camp. Makeshift huts on the yard of school building. High altitude view of the area. American women ex-prisoners cook food. Food in pots. Shacks in the area. American soldiers get out of tanks in a street. Soldiers in front of the University of Santo Tomas Main Building. An old and undernourished man talks to a group of soldiers. The chest of the man shows ribs. His legs showing the effect of Beri-Beri. Heavy columns of smoke rise from burning buildings. Soldiers look through binoculars. They fire artillery.
U.S. film designed to boost national morale during World War II. Numerous scenes of American forces engaged in combat.
Several American school children, including one in a Boy Scouts of America uniform, recite the pledge of allegiance during World War 2. Scene broadens to encompass a school yard filled with elementary school students reciting the pledge in front of an American flag flying high on a pole. As scene fades images appear of battleships firing guns; an F4F airplane taking off from an aircraft carrier; landing craft approaching a beach; American soldiers fighting with small arms and a flame thrower, in jungles of New Guinea; a U.S. gun crew firing heavy artillery; and a U.S. P-38 aircraft on a rainy runway, spraying water as it takes off, in the Aleutian Islands. U.S. troops firing automatic weapons on a Pacific Island. A B-17 pilot wearing an oxygen mask in his cockpit, flying in a formation creating contrails at high altitude over Germany. Waist gunner firing at an attacking German fighter plane that explodes in air. U.S. troops in jeeps moving over jungle road. U.S. ski troops on snow in Iceland heading downhill toward their tents in the snow. American troops during amphibious landing in the Philippines. U.S. troops aboard army halftracks on desert in Iran. American paratroopers dropping from C-47 aircraft over France. U.S. soldiers marching through two large gates with cadre of Chinese soldiers in China. American troops fighting in Italy and firing a 155mm howitzer. U.S. infantry following a sherman tank over a war-torn landscape with shells bursting nearby. Crowded, busy street scenes of traffic and pedestrians in Manhattan, New York City, and Chicago, Illinois. Army tanks being manufactured in a Detroit war production plant or factory. A Los Angeles shipyard filled with workers at shift change. Closeups of individual American soldiers in combat helmets. U.S. troops descending rope nets from transport ships to board landing craft, and approaching the beaches of Normandy, France, under fire, on D-day, June 6, 1944. Views of the Statue of Liberty, including closeups.
President Rafael Trujillo and Mrs. Jeannette Andrews inaugurate the General Andrews Airport in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Dedication of Andrews Field or General Andrews Airport (presently known as the Las Américas International Airport) in Santo Domingo, then known as Ciudad Trujillo. President of the Dominican Republic Rafael Trujillo and Mrs. Jeannette Johnston “Johnnie” Andrews unveil a plaque dedicating General Andrews Airport, named after Lieutenant General Frank Maxwell Andrews, one of the founders of the United States Army Air Forces. They pull away the flags of the Dominican Republic and the United States to unveil the plaque. President Trujillo shakes hands with Mrs. Andrews. Closer view of the plaque in Spanish and English. An aircraft flying as seen from the ground. The Santo Domingo Obelisk (Av. George Washington, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic). Flags of the Dominican Republic hang in front of a mansion. President Trujillo reads a speech in front of military officials, dignitaries, and guests. Mrs. Andrews listens near Trujillo. President Trujillo stands beside the Mrs. Andrews. Mrs. Andrews is seen wearing the Dominican Republic Order Of Trujillo medal. Flags of different countries in the Americas stand outside a building. A poster commemorating the centenary of the Dominican Republic. Mrs. Andrews talks to a general. President Trujillo stands beside Dominican Republic Army generals and dignitaries. Mrs. Andrews stands beside a dignitary during the ceremony.
American troops and war correspondents at Mont Saint Michel and Saint Malo in France during World War II
American troops and war correspondents in France, during World War 2. They visit Mont Saint Michel, a small rocky island at the mouth of Couesnon River in Normandy, separating Normandy and Brittany. View of the island with a monastery at the top. War correspondent Robert Capa (of Life and of Time Magazines) looks on and takes pictures. Military jeeps leave the island. Madam Poulard stands under a sign at her Hotel Poulard. Sign for the Hotel and its reputed omelette. Soldiers on the street. Shops and French flags. GIs at the Benedictine Abbey and steepled church. An old French man points. U.S. Soldiers take a tour of the monastery with a woman guide. Steeples, towers, arches and other architectural features of the abbey and monastery. War correspondents including Charles Collingwood, Chicago Daily News' Helen Kirkpatrick, New Yorker Magazine's Joe Liebling (Abbot Joseph Liebling) and Warden Becker. Helen and Charles pose for the camera. Ernest Hemingway, covering for Colliers Magazine, drinks and talks to Bill Walton. War correspondents including Bill Stringer seated and walking on the street. They visit the monastery and take pictures. Civilians on the streets. Tall sticks in sand placed by German forces around the island to prevent Allied planes from landing at low tide. Three war orphan brothers whose parents were killed at the battle of St Lo, play on the beach as their grandmother looks on. Views of the island and patterns on the sand around the island from the receding waters of low tide. St. Malo, Brittany: Field near Saint Malo. American soldiers bathe and swim in a lake. They fool around in the water, taking a break from battle.
Under General Douglas MacArthur command the Allied troops capture Leyte Islands from the Japanese.
The life of General Douglas MacArthur. MacArthur on captured islands in the Pacific theater. Gen. Douglas confers and walks with other commanders. Animated map shows Allied advance from New Guinea Islands towards the Philippine Islands. General Douglas in conference with President Roosevelt, and Admiral Nimitz. MacArthur points at a map and explains his plan of action. In accordance to the plan the Allied convoy sails towards Leyte Islands. Fight at the islands. Behind naval bombardment the allied troops land on the island. MacArthur's face is iluminated by intermittent light from Naval Gunfire at night as he watches the landing from a battleship. In daylight, MacArthur on deck with with a three-star general, as he smokes his corn cob pipe. Allied troops establish a beachead on Leyte. General MacArthur gets off an Landing ship and wades ashore. Allied troops move towards Manila. Block-by-block fighting against Japanese forces in Manila. American paratroops jump and land on Corregidor. MacArthur and his staff stroll down a street in Manila. He visits the prison camps and speaks with joyful, liberated, former prisoners of the Japanese. MacArthur salutes as the American Flag is raised over Corregidor. Image of atomic bomb explosion. MacArthur gets off a plane wearing 5 stars. Scenes of Japanese surrender ceremony aboard the Battleship Missouri at end of World War 2 in 1945. MacArthur gives an address to conclude the proceedings. (World War II period).
A crowd cheers and applauds as U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur arrives in Manila, Philippine Islands.
The Santo Tomas concentration camp in Manila, Philippine Islands during World War II. A crowd gathers in front of a building. The crowd applauds. Soldiers stand at attention. U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur comes out of the building. A Japanese headquarters building. A guard seated on a truck in front of the building. The observation tower top of a building. The town of Santo Tomas. Repatriated, liberated Allied prisoners seated in front of shacks. A child drinks canned milk. The mother holds the glass. Men and women have drinks. Three children drink milk from a glass.
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