U.S. officers in Philippines during World War II. A hut with thatched roof, in a field. An army jeep outside the hut. U.S. officers inside the hut. An officer talks on the radio equipment. Another officer seated beside him. Several pieces of equipment inside the hut. An officer speaks into a radio microphone. A radio antenna rotating in strong winds, outside.
Philippines Campaign in Philippines during World War II. U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur and other officers deplane in an airfield in Manila. 'VHGHQ' written on the aircraft. The U.S. officials are greeted by Filipino officials. The officials converse. The officials get into a car.
Philippines Campaign in Philippines during World War II. U.S. officials, including a woman, visit tents on battlefields in Philippines. An officer takes pictures of the officials. The officials visit the wounded U.S. soldiers inside a tent, to be evacuated to U.S. The officials converse with the U.S. Army personnel. A sign board reads 'Registrar, Evacuation' outside a tent. The officials leave the area.
Scenes of the Allied bombardment and invasion of Japanese-held Balikpapan in Borneo, during World War II. Bombers of the U.S. 13th Air Force making numerous strikes against Japanese coastal defenses, oil installations and airfields at Balikpapan, Borneo. Scenes of accompanying naval bombardment by warships of the U.S. 7th fleet supplemented by elements of the Australian and Netherlands Navies. General Douglas MacArthur observing operations from the deck of a ship. The Australian 7th Division, composed of the 18th, 21st and 25th Infantry Brigades, with support troops, making an amphibious landing a few miles north of Balikpapan. Australian troops wading ashore from landing craft. Australian armor and other vehicles on shore. Infantry advance supported by Matilda tanks of the 1st Armored Regiment. Australian troops firing machine guns, 5 pounder howitzers, and wielding flame throwers. A Japanese soldier runs from a bunker, with body and clothes aflame. General Douglas MacArthur and Australian officers inspecting the beachhead. Views of Shell Oil Company facilities destroyed by Allied pre-invasion bombing and shelling.
British conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Mavis C.Tate,and another MP, sitting in an American jeep with top up, speak with a British officer. They and several other jeeps, carrying visiting British MPs proceed into the liberated Buchenwald Concentration camp. An effigy of a prisoner is seen illustrating form of punishment meted out to inmates. The visiting party includes: Mrs. Tate; Sir Graham White; Sir Henry James; Lord Stanhope; Lord Addison; Sir Archibald Southby; Lieutenant Colonel Wickham; Ness Edward; M. Silverman; and Tom Driberg. Accompanied by U.S. and British officers, they walk about among the camp buildings, where cleanup is underway. A large mass of camp debris is being burned. Freed inmates are seen throughout the camp. Some of them speak with the MPs and explain things to them. Mrs. Tate converses with former prisoners who show their tatooed identification numbers. (World War II period).
Three children, former concentration camp prisoners, stand at barbed wire of Buchenwald Concentration Camp after its liberation from Nazi German forces. One of the boys is on crutches. Several freed prisoners huddle over a cooking fire in the camp yard. Inside a building, Mrs. Mavis C. Tate, and other members of British Parliament, pose with emaciated former prisoners. They speak with the liberated prisoners who lie, covered with blankets, on mats on the floor. Mrs. Tate walks out of the camp with a group of American Army officers. (World War II period).
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