Animated map shows World War 2 supply convoy routes to Murmansk, Soviet Union. German Junkers 88 bombers, JU 87, Stuka dive bombers, Fokker D.XXI aircraft; and Dornier Do-17 bombers are seen as aircraft used to disrupt the convoy traffic. An officer aboard a convoy escort ship looks through binoculars. A group of German Stuka dive bombers peels off to attack the convoy. Escort warships fire antiaircraft guns at the attacking German aircraft. bombs striking a supply ship. German Me 109 aircraft flying over the convoy. An attacking German aircraft is downed and crashes into the sea. A bombed supply freighter rapidly sinks. Smoke rises from another burning ships. A long line of supply ships arriving at Russian port. Aircraft and tanks being offloaded.
U.S. prisoners of war are freed in the Philippines during World War II. Liberated men are being interviewed. U.S. Army chaplain Colonel Alfred C. Oliver Jr. is interviewed. He talks about the experience of being liberated from a Japanese prison camp after a long time. He speaks about the chapels destroyed by the Japanese. A thatched hut in the background.
Activities of Filipino people in the Philippines before World War II. A horse-drawn calesa moves through Escolta, the business district of Manila. Billboards advertise Coca-Cola in the Philippines. Activities and quiet scenes at the siesta time. Buildings along the sides of a street. Sign boards outside the buildings read: 'Good Rich' and 'Coca Cola'. A Bahay Kubo (Nipa hut) in the countryside. A horse drinks from trough. A monkey hangs on bamboo pole. A water buffalo (carabao) laze in the mud. Timber trees are felled by men for lumber. Smoke from chimneys of factories. Wooden logs are carried on railroad wagons moving on rails. People work in a sugarcane farm and harvest the sugarcane. Men with Carabaos plow in a sugarcane field. Filipino workers transport sacks of sugar into a ship. Men climb up coconut trees and pick coconuts. The coconuts are loaded into carts. A Filipino man pours out a cup filled with sap from a rubber tree. Men cut tobacco. Filipino women roll tobacco into cigars inside a cigar factory. Men harvesting and slicing abaca (also known as Manila hemp). The processing of hemp. Men shredding Manila hemp into long strands. Shredded abaca are hung outdoors to dry. A machine twines hemp. (Pre war scenes, but from a 1944 film.)
The Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II. Mails are pasted on a tree. Japanese soldiers look at postal mail in a jungle setting. Japanese soldiers carry supplies using a long bamboo pole. Soldiers filling drums with water from a river. Hose fills the drum with water. A truck carrying water containers drives past along a way. Japanese soldiers use rolling pins and boil a pot. Water flows from hose. Japanese cooking from vats. A Japanese airplane in flight. The airplane makes a message pick up with a skyhook.
Japanese victory at the Battle of Corregidor during Japanese occupation of Philippines in World War II. Japanese troops land on Corregidor Island (also known as Fort Mills during the American Colonial Period). Japanese troops disembark from boats during their landing at the island of Corregidor. Japanese soldiers climb their way up the island. Soldiers advance on Corregidor Island. Japanese troops march past destroyed buildings. Captured American and Filipino prisoners of war are taken away. Japanese soldiers stand near gun batteries and give victory banzai. View of the Mile Long Barracks of Corregidor. The soldiers advance and walk past a destroyed building. The Japanese flag is raised. Japanese soldiers take down the United States flag in Corregidor.
An orientation film titled 'The Long Gray Line' for West Point Military Academy's plebes in the United States. The academy's history and traditions are depicted. Exterior of a chapel. Soldiers pray inside the church. They march on a street. U.S. Army Commander-in-Chief George Washington seated at his desk writing a letter. The soldiers march along a road. A statue. The soldiers stand in formation.
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