Japanese attack on United States battleship Franklin (CV-13) underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. A United States destroyer ship underway in the Pacific Ocean. Fire burns furiously on the hangar deck of the USS Franklin after the Japanese attack. Fire fighters spray water to extinguish the fire. Smoke billows up as a result of the fire. The firefighters spray water with hoses to extinguish the fire.
American prisoners of war being interviewed at Japanese prison camp number 3, in Honshu, Japan after World War II. A U.S. officer interviews a prisoner who has been liberated from a Japanese prison camp. The prisoner says that his name is Benini. He says that he is from Pennsylvania, United States. The officer asks him whether he was in the Philippines and when was he captured. He states he was captured before the Bataan Death March. He narrates his experiences of his prison camp, noting that a building in the prison camp was called the white house because it was large and painted white.
United States Marines in the Philippines during World War II. Marines advance down a small dusty road. United States flag flies after the marines capture the area. Smoke rises in the background. Several marines around a light tank. A photographer with his camera and a reporter with his portable typewriter, during a combat break. Marines in the background. The reporter types a dispatch. The photographer smokes a cigarette and cleans a lens on his camera.
An orientation film titled ' Westward is Bataan' about Japanese capture of the Philippines and the Americans surrender during World War II. Scenes of destruction from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, United States on December 7, 1941. U.S. ships being strafed and explosions occur. Excerpts from Japanese newsreel showing surrender of U.S. forces at Corregidor. United States soldiers in Corregidor, Philippines. U.S. Army General Jonathan Wainwright meets Japanese officers to surrender during the Battle of Corregidor. Japanese soldiers near Heam Battery on May 6, 1942. Japanese soldiers remove the American flag from a pole to raise the Japanese flag after the surrender. People celebrate Japanese victory in Tokyo, Japan. In Manila people gather along the streets as they wave the Japanese flags to welcome Japanese General Masaharu Homma. General Homma enters a building. Japanese soldiers parade as they carry the remains of the soldiers who lost their lives during the Battle of Corregidor. The boxes carrying the remains of the dead Japanese soldiers being handed over to Japanese women at a ceremony.
United States Army Air Force B-29 Superfortress bombers in action in Thailand during World War II. Men work in a plant in the United States as they manufacture B-29 bombers. Men work on the body of the aircraft. In China, fuel barrels being loaded onto an aircraft for transporting. Chinese troops roll the barrels and pile them up at an air base for refueling B-29 aircraft. Fuel being unloaded from the barrels into a huge storage tank. Piled up barrels. A B-29 aircraft takes off and in flight. The Rama VIII Bridge in Bangkok, Thailand being bombarded by the B-29s. Bombs impact and billows of smoke rise up.
United States soldiers during the invasion of New Guinea during World War II. Two United States soldiers throw gasoline on native huts. The huts on fire as smoke rises. Men atop an improvised observation tower. A man at a multiple 50 caliber machine gun. A long column of soldiers wades through waist deep water as they cross a stream.
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