View of Argao Church (San Miguel Arcangel Parish Church, Poblacion, Argao, Cebu 6021 Philippines) in Argao, Cebu, Philippines. Exteriors and stone tower of Argao Church, erroneously identified as the location of the first church service in Cebu.
Natives of the Philippines. Exteriors of a newly built government hospital in Bontoc, Philippines. Filipino patients lying in beds at the hospital. Nurses and doctors in background Nurses look after the patients who receive free medical care.
General Tomoyuki Yamashita stands for trial in Manila, Philippines. Former Japanese Commander General Yamashita charged for several war crimes in World War II. Filipino spectators are searched before entering the court. General Yamashita in the court. American and Japanese flag on stage. Dignitaries on stage. Major General Russel Burton Reynolds opens the session. A Filipino woman swears an oath as a witness. Army prosecutor brings witnesses. A 10-year-old Filipina girl testifies that she was bayoneted in the arm and the back. Filipino businessman Francisco Lopez talks about the crimes done by the Japanese forces during the Battle of Manila.
View of the buildings, houses, streets and trees in Manila, Philippines. Explosions in the city. Smoke arises from the explosions. Soldiers on military vehicles on the street. Jeeps parked in front of a building. Wreckage in the building. People gather to watch the wreckage. Smoke arises from fire in the background. Men raise the United States flag on the terrace of a building. Houses in a field. High altitude view of the wreckage in the city. Huts and shacks on the field. Liberated women cook food outside the huts after liberation from internment. Men and children sit and eat the food. Children play. Liberated internee men seated on chairs smoke and talk amongst themselves. Liberated civilian internees mingle with United States troops in the streets of the city. Girls come out of a building and walk on the street. They talk amongst themselves. Children view a tank and peer inside it from atop. A man and a woman talk. A soldier holds two children and talk to them. Starved and emaciated freed American prisoner from a camp stands with soldiers near a tank and smokes. (World War II period).
General Douglas MacArthur meets President Sergio Osmena of the Philippines in Nichols Field (present day Villamor Air Base), Manila during World War II. Senator Millard Tydings of Maryland accompanies General MacArthur. Jean MacArthur, wife of General MacArthur, visits wounded soldiers in makeshift hospital. MacArthur and his wife visit Mindanao in a Jeep. Dive bombers bombard Japanese positions in Ipo Dam, Norzagaray, Bulacan. Bodies of dead Japanese soldiers found near Ipo Dam. View of soldiers killed and their remains. General MacArthur also accompanies a task force in the invasion of Labuan, off the coast of Borneo. General MacArthur is seen smoking a corn cob pipe. General MacArthur and General George Kenney inspect Australian troop operations in Borneo. They meet Bornean civilians and Australian soldiers. General MacArthur watch the body of a dead Japanese sniper (World War II period).
Interview with Doreen Garwick, wife of United States Navy officer Warren Garwick from Los Angeles, California. Garwick recounts her experience taken as a prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II in Manila, Philippines. During the interview she hopes of meeting her husband soon after the liberation of Manila.
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