Bombs dropped from a U.S. Army Air Force plane in Philippines during World war II. Smoke rises as the bombs hit the target. Thick white smoke comes out as a burning plane falls towards the ground. Burnt grass and trees on the side of a road. Bombs dropped over water. Smoke rises as the bombs fall into water.
Soldiers filling fuel in United States Army Air Force planes in Philippines during World war II. A truck near the planes. A man unloads a drum from the truck. Soldiers help fill fuel in the planes. A mechanic works on a plane. Swastikas, Japanese flag and American flag painted on the fuselage of the plane.
U.S. soldiers pour sand into large metal barrels at an airbase in the Philippines. U.S. soldiers in a group. Some soldiers have buckets in their hands. Soldiers pours sand from buckets into barrels. Another soldier mixes by hand atop the barrel. A third soldier in each group moves a stirring arm on the barrel. Likely they are mixing concrete.
U.S. paratroopers of the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment (511th PIR), 11th Airborne Division, conduct a combat parachute drop to reinforce American troops engaging Japanese forces at Tagayatay Ridge, on Luzon, the Philippines, in World War 2. View from inside a C-47 transport aircraft, looking through its open rear door, at another C-47 taxiing on an airfield ramp. It displays "X44" stenciled below its cockpit. Brief aerial view of the airfield from an airplane overhead. Several C-47s seen flying in formation. Closeups of some C-47s. Next, paratroopers of the U.S. 11th Airborne Division are seen jumping from C-47s. Their chutes open rapidly after leaving the aircraft. Some of the chutes of troopers, jumping from aircraft forward of the camera plane, pass very near as they descend. Aerial view looking upward at parachutes descending with clouds behind them. Glimpse from cockpit of camera plane shows numerous parachutes deployed from C-47s some distance ahead. Closer view from below and left of three C-47s shows paratroopers exiting open aircraft doors. More parachutes seen from above, as they descend. View from C-47 cockpit of five others in formation, at the same altitude,ahead. Below them, dozens of parachutes are seen descending toward the ground. Inside a C-47, several troopers stand at the open rear door and one helps another jump from the plane. Several paratroopers passing the right wing of the camera plane as they descend.
United States 511th Parachute Infantry attacks hill 2380 in Philippines during World War II. Soldiers ascend the hill as smoke emerges from its sides.
United States 511th Parachute Infantry attacks hill 2380 in Philippines during World War 2. Soldiers ascend the hill. Narrator describes scenes shown. Camera pans to show a wounded Japanese soldier far in the distance. Camera holds on that position for some minutes. U.S. machine guns and mortar shells strike at the Japanese position on which the camera is trained.
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