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USS Ommaney Bay (CVE-79) burns at sea off shore of Luzon, Philippines following attack by Japanese kamikaze aircraft

During bombardment on Luzon, Philippines during Battle of Luzon, World War 2. U.S. Navy ships underway, supporting Lingayen Gulf landings. Ships at sea. Various views both close-up and distant of USS Ommaney Bay (CVE-79) burning and consumed in fire and smoke following hit by a Japanese kamikaze aircraft. Huge clouds of smoke rising from the aircraft carrier. Aircraft seen on flight deck. Support ships attempting to render aid and fight fires on the USS Ommaney Bay as it burns.

Date: 1945, January 4
Duration: 3 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072050
Men of 121st Infantry Regiment of Philippine Army march in formation, receive medals at Luna in North Luzon Philippines.

Men of 121st Infantry Regiment of the Philippine Army awarded at Luna in North Luzon Philippines, after World War II. A plane in flight very close to the ground over the parade ground. Troops of soldiers march. Women in spectators stand with hand fans watch the ceremony. The regiment in formation during the ceremony. Regiment marches on the ground to receive the honors. Purple Heart's medal attached to the shirts of soldiers.

Date: 1945, November 11
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037197
U.S. paratroopers jump off a USAAF C-47 Skytrain over Luzon in the Philippines (WW2)

The United States Army in the Philippines during World War II. A group of paratroop infantrymen around a United States Army Air Force Douglas C-47 Skytrain military transport aircraft. The paratroopers set equipment to get aboard the aircraft. They board the aircraft. The paratroopers jump off the aircraft over Luzon. They descend with the help of parachutes. An aircraft in flight. The paratroopers look out of the window of the aircraft. They jump off the aircraft and descend over Manila, Philippines. A C-47 aircraft taxis on a runway past parked C-47s. A C-47 Skytrain in flight as seen from another aircraft.

Date: 1945, February 3
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050805
Units of United states 14th Corps capture Clark Field as they advance toward Manila, Philippines, during World War II

American troops in their drive toward Manila, in 1945, during World War 2, pass several knocked out and burning Japanese Type 89 Chi-Ro tanks. A dead Japanese soldier, shot dead while trying to commit suicide, lies on the ground with an undetonated hand grenade in his mouth. U.S. M4A2 sherman III tanks and infantry of the XIV Corps moving on the Lingayen Plains Philippines, leading to the capital, Manila. U.S. armor towing artillery ford a stream, as they pass beneath framework of an apparently unusable bridge. A battery of U.S. M101 105mm Howitzer artillery pieces is set up and bombards the Clark Field area. One striking shell produces an explosion, fire and column of black smoke. U.S. troops ride forward atop tanks. Glimpse of one soldier with flamethrower tanks on his back. American tanks firing their guns. Destroyed Japanese aircraft on the ground. A soldier using a mine detector to sweep the area. He signals to another soldier who comes to probe the area with a long knife. Next a soldier is seen standing in a hole dug around a bomb Placed nose up under the ground by the Japanese. Soldiers pull it from the hole, using a rope. U.S. soldiers walk in area full of similar holes and bombs pulled from them. General Douglas MacArthur is seen, on January 26, 1945, walking among remains of Japanese aircraft at Clark Field. He visits the Filipino cemetery at Camp O'Donnell, which was a prisoner of war camp, considered the terminating point of the Bataan Death March, where some 20 thousand Filipinos and almost 2 thousand Americans died during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. MacArthur is seen standing by a large Christian Cross monument, and walks among untended graves marked with small wooden crosses. The Mount Pinatubo volcano is seen on the horizon in the background. MacArthur and those accompanying him walk around a large monument containing a placard written in tagolog. U.S. soldiers start a mortar barrage against Japanese forces dug in on "Hill 70." Infantrymen move through trees and brush to flush out the entrenched enemy. Glimpse of type of improvised device made of explosives and gasoline, that U.S. soldiers are using to drive Japanese troops out of their fortifications. As a soldier watches with binoculars, the camera records several of these devices exploding with great force. Glimpse of a dead Japanese soldier on the ground. U.S. troops ride atop an M18 Gun motor carriage of the 637th Tank Destroyer Battalion, as it crosses a river. American tanks and infantry moving cautiously across a bridge as shells explode ahead of them. Tanks firing at Japanese troops entrenched in hillside above a road. Large numbers of American infantry marching along a road accompanied by tanks. Areas around them burning from fires set by retreating Japanese forces.

Date: 1945, January 26
Duration: 3 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037799
Legislature in Philippines, resumes activity after the liberation of Manila (WW2)

United States Army Jeeps and a military staff car are seen parked in front of the Malacañang Palace (J.P. Laurel Street San Miguel, Manila, Luzon 1005 Philippines) in Manila, Philippines, in World War II. Local Filipino civil servants enter and leave the palace. The staff car and several jeeps leave the Malacañang Palace through a gateway guarded by American soldiers. Camera focuses up to a sign on a building reading: "Congress of the Philippines, House of representatives." View through an iron grate from a balcony overlooking the building lobby, shows officials mingling below. Change of view shows officials assembling in the main hall of the legislature.

Date: 1945, July
Duration: 2 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045298
Meeting of commission with President Sergio Osmeña at Malacañang Palace in Manila, Philippines (WW2)

Meeting of Filipino Rehabilitation Commission at Malacañang Palace (J.P. Laurel Street San Miguel, Manila, Luzon 1005 Philippines) in Manila, Philippines during World War II. Meeting of commission with President of the Commonwealth of Philippines, Sergio Osmeña in Malacañang Palace. United States Senator Millard Tydings (Maryland) seated next to President Osmeña. Commission include Senator Frank R. Lowe, Colonel Isams, Colonel Baumann Heater, Lieutenant Callahan, Admiral Tarrant, Captain Brierley, Dr. Elliot, J. Weldon Jones, A. Zimmer, Mr. G. Monick, Senator Tydings and President Osmeña. President Osmena in his office alone. Confessor in President Osmeña's office.

Date: 1945, July
Duration: 3 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045299