United States 1st Battalion, 151st Infantry Regiment of 38th Division at Fort Drum, El Fraile Island, Philippines. Damaged buildings at Fort Drum. Platoon near Fort Drum, checks the results of demolition and fire. Guns in position at the fort. United states 1st Battalion disembarks from barge onto fort. Troops on the mast of the barge with American flag on a pole. The troops inspect the area and walk back on the barge. (World War II period).
Footage shot after United States battleships conclude bombardment of Japanese-held Fort Drum in Manila Bay, Philippines during World War 2. Fortified Fort Drum is seen on El Fraile Island in Manila Bay, with large gun turrets clearly visible on its top. U.S. troops and engineers had gained access to air vents on the fort top deck, pumped in oil and gasoline, and set a timed fuse. Footage shows fused explosive detonating, followed by massive explosion and black smoke as the flammables ignite.
Strafing and bombing of the Japanese islands during World War II. U.S. Navy TBM Avengers from USS Randolph (CV-15) in flight overhead. Clouds in the sky. Several aircraft flying in formation. Coastline of Shikoku, Japan. Smoke rises from a burning ship. Smoke and flames rise up. Bomb hits on Japanese battleship near the shore.
Japanese soldiers on Leyte in the Philippines during World War II. Explosions occur in a jungle. Japanese soldiers in prone position behind bushes. The soldiers advance and charge ahead. An officer briefs lined up soldiers. Bags on the backs of the soldiers. A map of Leyte island.
Wounded U.S. troops are treated on a Pacific island during World War II. Jeeps loaded with injured troops. A corpsman medic keeps medicines and other things on a litter. Medical aid provided to the injured. A medic removes a fracture bandage from the leg of a soldier. A medic treats the ankle of an injured soldier. An ambulance arrives to pick up the injured. Injured soldiers are loaded into ambulances. Bomb explosions on a battlefield. The ambulance carrying injured backs off. The injured at an evacuation center. Women and men are taken out of a landing craft. Wounded soldiers on a landing craft. The landing craft carrying the injured underway in the Pacific ocean. The injured soldiers are transferred to ships from landing crafts. Doctors treat the injured soldiers in a hospital.
Wounded U.S. troops are treated on a Pacific island during World War II. A bulldozer moves through a torii. Vehicles driven to a medical hospital. Men clear rubble in the Japanese hospital. Men draw water from a well and pour into a container. A man dips a cloth in the container. A medic observes through a microscope as he works on setting up a laboratory. Water is sprinkled on mud from a tanker. Soldiers enter a division hospital. The soldiers carry an injured on a stretcher. Medics treat patients. A medic washes hands. The medics apply bandages on the injured soldiers. A medic inserts the needle of a blood bottle into a patient.
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