Philippines Campaign in Philippines during World War II. A pictorial map showing distance of 650 MI from Middleburg in New Guinea to Buayan in Philippines Island. U.S. Army men at work. Two U.S. officers on ground below an aircraft during inspection. A U.S. heavy bomber B-24 Liberator taxis and takes off. The B-24 in flight. The nose section of the aircraft. Other aircraft in flight. Bombs being dropped on target areas in Buayan in the Philippines Island. Smoke rises from explosions. Aerial views of inhabited areas in the Philippines Island. A wooded region in view. Paved ways in view on ground. A column of smoke rises from the bombarded areas
Okinawan workers during the work of an airstrip in Okinawa, Japan, during World War II. The workers in a village in Okinawa, gather in a group. The workers move in a line to a desk where a pair of U.S. Military Police are seated. Each worker signs on a document. A policeman looks on. Few policemen stand behind the desk. The workers bow to an officer who walks past them. The workers move in a group. A few men in the group eating out of a bowl. The group of workers in a field which is the proposed site for the air base. The workers move in a line along a road. A few workers,with hammers in their hands, at work in the area. Sacks of sand stacked by the workers. Workers along the side of a road. Trucks with material move along the road. Heavy equipment grading the ground for the airstrip. Workers operate heavy equipment. A few workers painting the roof and sides of a building in the area. Aircraft taking off from the new airstrip.
Orphaned children in Okinawa, Japan, during Battle of Okinawa of World War II. The U.S. troops advance through the roads of a rubbled village. Trees and damaged buildings along the sides of the road. A U.S. soldier, holding guns, walks along the side of a rubbled building and finds a small child. Two soldiers seated beside the child. One of the soldiers wipes the face of the child. The soldiers pick up the child and move towards the army jeep. The army jeep with soldiers and the child moves along the road. The jeep stops near a building. The soldier takes the child to the center for lost and orphaned children in Okinawa. The child is placed on a low table. A Red Cross worker and a man puts new clothes on the child and attends to the child. Views of other children in the center. The Red Cross worker feeds the child from a bowl. The workers at the center gives medical attention to a wounded child. A worker attends to a few days old baby. A child in the center looks on.
Firemen respond to a fire in a new sedan fire engine, and they put out the fire in a building in Paris, France. Fire fighters rush outside a building. The firemen rush to a "fire-engine sedan, which is a sedan car fitted with pumps and equipment attached to the rear of the vehicle, used for putting out fire. The firemen get into the sedan and drive away. The sedan arrives at a fire-stricken building. The firemen get out of the vehicle and take the pump and other equipment from the rear of the sedan, hook up hoses to local fire hydrants, and start putting out the fire. The firemen are seen spraying water from a hose onto the building on fire.
The members of the Cuban Cabinet at the Capitol building in Havana, Cuba. The Capitol building in Havana. A motorcade drives through an archway at the entrance to the Capitol building. A crowd gathered on the side of the road. Guards on the road. The members of the Cuban Cabinet climbs up the stairs and enters the Capitol. Guards on either side of the stairs. The officials inside the building, for the new Cabinet, formed by President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes y Quesada, meet on debt crisis. The officials on a large balcony on the Capitol. The crowd gathered outside the building wave to the officials. President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes y Quesada and other officials, seated and standing in two rows, pose for photograph. View at harbor with ship at dock and armed military or militia gathered at stern of ship. View from a moving boat of various ships anchored in Havana harbor including the U.S. Navy Destroyer USS Claxton (DD-140).
Newly renamed steamer, Venezuela, on its maiden voyage across the Pacific. The new steamer Venezuela leaves the port for its maiden voyage. The steamer moves away from the port. People on the port watch the steamship. 'Venezuela' written on its hull. Equipment aboard the steamer in view. The steamer at sea. Smoke emitting from the smokestack.
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