General MacArthur returns to the Philippines in World War II. Gun footage show Allied airplanes bombard Japanese ships in Mindanao, Philippines. Allied airplane in dogfight with a Japanese airplane. Japanese airplane gets hit and goes down. Allied airplanes attack a Japanese anti-aircraft tower. Allied airplanes bombard Japanese airfield on Mindanao. Allied ships bombard Leyte in Philippines and carrier-based plane bombard the Island. United States prisoners of war captured by the Japanese. General Douglas MacArthur and General Jonathan Mayhew 'Skinny' Wainwright VI and Admiral William Frederick Halsey can be seen. General Douglas MacArthur and his men after landing on Leyte beach.
The role and contribution of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War 2. A beach on the Philippine island of Mindanao. U.S. aircraft in flight over the coastline. Signal Officer Lieutenant Leon Tinnell works at the Signal Headquarters. He talks on the radio receiver. He radios a message to U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters reporting on movement of Japanese troops. U.S. aircraft take off for a mission against the Japanese troops. They drop bombs on Japanese ships. Smoke from fire due to the explosions. A U.S. submarine near a battleship at sea. U.S. Navy sailors aboard the ship and the submarine. Wounded and sick officers and soldiers including Lt. Tinnell are transferred from the submarine onto the ship. Soldiers carry a comrade on a stretcher. Landing crafts approach an island in the Philippines. General MacArthur and Allied troops land at Leyte Island on October 20, 1944. They leave the crafts off shore and wade through the water towards the beach. Signal Corps officers record the event as General MacArthur and the others make their way inland.
U.S. Navy PBY Catalina of the 2nd Emergency Rescue Squadron transport soldiers from Motorai Island in New Guinea to Mindanao in Philippines during World War II The PBY Catalina, an American flying boat, in flight. The island of Philippines visible. The aircraft among the clouds in the sky. The coastline in view. Trees and inhabited areas along the coast line.
A U.S. Navy PBY transfers soldiers from Motorai Island in New Guinea to Mindanao in Philippines. Soldiers get into a truck. Few American soldiers seated in a truck. The soldier's belongings being transferred to the truck. Two men carry boxes. Few soldiers outside a tent. PBY Catalina (Patrol Bomber Consolidated Aircraft), an American flying boat of the 2nd Emergency Rescue Squadron on an airstrip. Other aircraft in view. Two trucks parked beside the flying boat. Men transport material from the trucks onto the aircraft. Soldiers board the aircraft with their belongings.
A U.S. Navy PBY of the 2nd Emergency Rescue Squadron transfers soldiers from Motorai Island in New Guinea to Mindanao in Philippines during World War II. Two aircraft on an airstrip. The whole airstrip in view. The PBY Catalina in flight among the clouds. Soldiers aboard the aircraft. An officer in the cockpit gazing outside. Two soldiers talking. An office smoking a cigar and checking an equipment in the back compartment of the aircraft.
U.S. Navy PBY Catalina of the 2nd Emergency Rescue Squadron transfers the U.S. soldiers and war correspondents from Motorai Island in New Guinea to Mindanao in Philippines during World War II. The PBY Catalina in flight. An officer typing a document at the typewriter. The aircraft in flight above an island. The coastline in view. Rocky terrain along the coast line.
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