Activities of Filipino people in the Philippines during World War II. A horse-drawn calesa moves through Escolta, the business district of Manila. Billboards advertise Coca-Cola in the Philippines. Activities at the siesta time. Buildings along the sides of a street. Sign boards outside the buildings read: 'Good Rich' and 'Coca Cola'. A Bahay Kubo (Nipa hut) in the countryside. A horse drinks from trough. A monkey hangs on bamboo pole. A water buffalo (carabao) laze in the mud. Trees are felled by men. Smoke from chimneys of factories. Wooden logs are carried on railroad wagons moving on rails. People work in a sugarcane farm and harvest the sugarcane. Men with Carabaos plow in a sugarcane field. Filipino workers transport sacks of sugar into a ship. Men climb up coconut trees and pick coconuts. The coconuts are loaded into carts. A Filipino man pours out a cup filled with sap from a rubber tree. Men cut tobacco. Filipino women roll tobacco into cigars inside a factory. Men harvesting and slicing abaca (also known as Manila hemp). The processing of hemp. Men shredding Manila hemp into long strands. Shredded abaca are hung outdoors to dry. A machine twines hemp.
Liberated American prisoners of war in the Philippines during World War II. Patients lying on hospital beds. A nurse gives medicines to the patients. A man interviews two of the prisoners of war. One of the soldiers talks about the Bataan Death March. He states that they marched for three days and three nights. Food and water was not given to them. They were transported to prison camps in boxcars and some of the prisoners died and some were killed. Sergeant Donald Smith also talks about the conditions in the prison camps and treatment received from the Japanese.
Liberated American prisoners of war in the Philippines during World War II. A liberated prisoner of war lying on a hospital bed. A man interviews him. He talks about the conditions in Japanese prison camps. He states that the prisoners were made to work hard without any food or water.
U.S. troops enter Manila, Philippines during World War II. The troops fire guns and rifles and advance in Manila. The attack Japanese positions and destroy Japanese pillboxes. Tanks and infantry advance. Smoke rises from the firing and bombardment. The troops throw grenades to mop up the area. A Japanese building is destroyed. Wrecked tanks and other equipment on a field. Units of U.S. 44th Tank Battalion and 1st Cavalry Division advance. The troops cross a bridge over a river. U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur watch the troops crossing the river. 1st cavalry Division enters Manila. They advance in the northern outskirts towards Japanese concentration camps. They are greeted by Filipino civilians. People celebrate as the troops enter the area.
The invasion of the Philippines by Allied troops during World War II. Evacuation of wounded from the Walled City of Intramuros in Manila, Philippines. Filipino civilians carry wounded on stretchers. Troops advance through wreckage and debris on the streets. They fire rifles. Destroyed buildings and houses in the area.
The invasion of the Philippines by Allied troops during World War II, liberating it from the Japanese. Aerial view of the city of Manila. Smoke rises from firing and bombardment. Houses and buildings in the city as seen from an aircraft flying low. A large building of a hospital marked with the Red Cross.
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