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.
Activities of Filipino people in the Philippines before World War II. A horse-drawn calesa moves through Escolta, the business district of Manila. Billboards advertise Coca-Cola in the Philippines. Activities and quiet scenes 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. Timber trees are felled by men for lumber. 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 cigar 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. (Pre war scenes, but from a 1944 film.)
Japanese occupation of Philippines during World War II. Film opens showing a formation of Japanese Nakajima Ki-67 (Army Type 4 Heavy Bombers, named "Peggy", by Allies) in flight. Japanese infantry soldiers are seen next, marching into the Philippines. Views of barbed wire fences and of stacks of artillery shells. View from rear of a column of infantry marching beside a road. Glimpse of abandoned sand-bagged defensive positions. A Japanese camp in the open with field artillery set up. Brief view of a Japanese Nakajima Ki-27 Type 97 Fighter (called "Nate" by Allies). Japanese infantry struggling through jungles. Brief view of a Japanese Aichi D3A Type 99 Carrier Bomber (Allied reporting name "Val") in flight. Scene shifts to Japanese infantry continuing past palm trees. A Japanese tank running over a slender tree. A Japanese open personnel carrier. Infantry carrying loads suspended from poles. Another view of a Nakajima Ki-67 heavy bomber in flight. A camouflaged Japanese type 97 tank moving forward. Japanese infantry moving single file across a bridge. Two Japanese soldiers riding atop a type 97 tank heading across the bridge heading toward the camera. Map showing the mountains of Bataan peninsula in Japanese. More views of infantry marching along the road. Horses are employed to move artillery pieces. More Nakajima Ki-67 bombers in flight. Japanese artillery firing. Japanese troops gathered and shouting "Banzai" on top of Mount Orion, Bataan.
A documentary depicts combat activities of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division during World War II. The Battle of Leyte in 1944. The troops in landing craft underway in the Philippines Sea. A close up of the U.S. troops on the landing craft. The U.S. ships underway and set on fire by the Japanese. A Japanese aircraft in flight. The U.S. troops get off from the landing craft on a shore. A tank being unloaded from the craft. The troops in prone position at the shore, pinned down by enemy fire. A seated soldier holds the wrist of a wounded U.S. soldier. The troops in a jungle and a U.S. Sherman tank moves at the field. They advance in a jungle. Two troops carry supplies. The soldiers fire rifles, bazooka and a rifle grenade. The dead Japanese troops. The soldiers on tanks enter Tacloban City in Philippines. The civilians greet the soldiers. Two soldiers and a civilian smoke cigarettes.
United States Army Lieutenant General Robert L. Eichelberger meets with Philippine Commonwealth President Sergio Osmeña in the Philippines during World War II. General Eichelberger and President Osmeña exit from a Bahay Kubo (nipa hut) building. Other Filipino and American military officials follow them. They both stand alongside of road. President Osmeña talking to General Eichelberger. The two men shake hands. Osmeña and Eichelberger view the scenic coast from a hill. General Eichelberger, President Osmeña and other military officials chatting with one another. Three United States soldiers inspect a rifle outside a tent.
Naval battle of Philippines between the United States and Japanese Imperial Navy. Animated diagrams show tactics of the 3rd Fleet and 7th Fleet in the naval battles on the Philippine (October 23-24, 29). Southern American unit destroys the battleships. Explains maneuvers employed in the Surigao and San Bernardino Straits. Shows Japanese planes attacking ships and being drowned. The carrier Princeton is damaged and sunk. Large smoke rises from carrier Princeton. American carriers are damaged. Several U.S. planes make crash landings on a carrier. United States Navy ace Commander Captain David S. Mc Campbell lands. He exits the cockpit and is greeted. (World War II period).
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