The invasion of the Philippine Islands by Japanese occupying troops during World War II. A car drives past on a street. Animated map shows places. Wrecked U.S. gun emplacements including Battery Crockett on Corregidor after a battle. Japanese soldiers at a destroyed building. Wrecked U.S. Army guns on the island. Wrecked equipment and rubble amid detroyed buildings in the area.
The sea voyage of the victory ship Hannibal Victory from San Francisco to the Philippine Islands during World War II. The ship underway in the Pacific ocean. A map locates Philippine Islands and Leyte. The ship convoy underway. Men standing near the deck gun. The semaphore signaling system is being used. A man wearing earphones standing near the deck gun.
Naval Battle of Santa Cruz Island in the Pacific Ocean during World War 2. View from The USS Enterprise (CV-6) during attacks by Japanese airplanes. F4F aircraft parked on her flight deck. A U.S. Destroyer is steaming aft and firing its guns. Battleship, USS South Dakota seen in distance. Black Flak bursts in the air. The Enterprise makes swerving defensive maneuvers while underway. A Japanese airplane flies overhead, aft. View from the ship's island of sailors gathered on flight deck and then running to an F4F that has collapsed with wing over antiaircraft gun positions. Sailors begin to right the airplane but abandon the deck when a bomb hits somewhere aft starboard. Smoke rising from the strike area. Enterprise making severe defensive maneuvers as her antiaircraft batteries fire. Anti-aircraft cruiser, USS San Juan CL-54, visible astern as Enterprise turns hard to starboard. Sky filled with black flak bursts. Black smoke rising from two downed Japanese aircraft in the water. Smoke drifting across the flight deck.
United States Marines Corps of the 3rd Marine Division invade Iwo Jima island, Japan during World War II. Wounded Marines being evacuated from the island. U.S. Army Air Forces P-51 Mustang aircraft lands on a dirt runway. Other aircraft land and take off. One of the P-51 Mustangs crashes during landing. Number of P-51's parked on an airfield.
United States Marine Corps of the 3rd Marine Division invade the Iwo Jima Island during the Iwo Jima operation of World War II. The wounded Marines being evacuated from the island. United States Navy aircraft landing on and taking off from the runway. A number of P-51 Mustangs parked along the runway.
Shells from U.S. Naval guns strike Fort Drum (also known as El Fraile Island) in Manila Bay, Philippines during World War 2. Explosion and smoke on the battleship-shaped island. United States casualties being transferred to a large Navy ship from small boats.
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