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Cargo transferred aboard USS Philippine Sea (CV-47) in Japan Sea during a snow storm.
USS Philippine Sea (CV-47) in Japan Sea. USS Philippine Sea takes on ammunition during a snow storm. Cargo transferred aboard USS Philippine Sea. Men unload cargo nets.
Philippine President Elpidio Quirino arrives for a meeting in the United States.
President Elpidio Quirino of the Philippines visits the United States. A Philippine Airlines Douglas DC-6 aircraft taxis in after landing and parks on the ramp at Washington National Airport, Washington, DC.. Philippine President Elpidio Quirino waving his hat descends steps from the airplane. He is greeted by U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Acheson. President Elpidio Quirino gets into a car and drives off. Motorcade including President Quirino's car travels through the District of Columbia. President Quirino addresses a gathering in a large hall.
The end of WWII and U.S. President Harry Truman's role in immediate postwar actions
Opening scene shows some German infantry surrendering with hands raised. Next scene shows people thronging Times Square in Manhattan, New York City, celebrating VE Day, or Victory in Europe Day, on May 8, 1945, when Germany surrendered to end World War II, in Europe. Image of the first atomic explosion (Trinity) on July 16, 1945, in New Mexico, United States. Scene shifts to deck of the U.S. Battleship, USS Missouri, where Japanese foreign minister, Mamoru Shigemitsu, is seated and signing the instrument of surrender., on September 2, 1945. Closeup profile of General Douglas MacArthur. Another glimpse of Mamoru Shigemitsu signing. Next, MacArthur is seen signing the document. He turns and presents the pen to Lieutenant General Jonathan M. Wainwright , who is standing behind him alongside British Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival. Brief glimpse of the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center with flag appearing to be at half staff and a long awning extending from its entrance to the sidewalk. View of representatives at the first United Nations meeting there . Views of audience in auditorium shows many notables. Closeups of Soviet Ambassador, Andrey Gromyko and Soviet Foreign Minister, Vyacheslav Molotov.. Next, President Harry S. Truman is seen broadcasting a greeting to the delegates, from the Capitol, Washington, DC, on April 25, 1945. The delegates are seen listening to the broadcast and then applauding.
Admiral Nimitz decorates officers and sailors aboard the submarine, USS Bowfin, in Guam, during World War II
View from conning tower of the submarine, USS Bowfin, in Apra Harbor, Guam, during World War 2. Officers and crew of the USS Bowfin stand in formation on the foredeck. With his back to the camera, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, stands at a microphone, reading a citation. He then steps forward to decorate Commander Alexander Kelly Tyree with the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession as Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. Bowfin (SS-287), on the Seventh War Patrol of that submarine during the period 25 January 1945 to 25 March 1945. Admiral Nimitz then proceeds to decorate other officers and sailors of the Bowfin, as Navy photographers take photographs. The Admiral with two officers and a sailor hold hand salutes a while as the ceremony is finishing. Admiral Nimitz then steps from the Bowfin, across another submarine docked next to it, and down to his launch. He salutes, as the launch pulls away. (Another view of Nimitz stepping into his launch is inserted here, as well.) Glimpse of the officers back on the Bowfin. (Note: Commander Tyree subsequently received a Gold Star in lieu of a Second Navy Cross, following the War Patrol of the Bowfin from 29 May 1945 to 4 July 1945.)
United States troops landing and fighting with Japanese troops in Leyte, Philippines (WW2)
U.S. Third Fleet underway at sea, heads for Leyte in October 1944 during World War II. Warships fire heavy guns at Leyte. Ships advance under naval bombardment. Explosions on ship. U.S. troops aboard landing crafts. Japanese troops and defense during the barrage. They take positions and begin to attack. U.S. landing crafts attacked. Dramatic close up views of faces and expressions of many U.S. soldiers as they prepare for the invasion. U.S. troops leave landing craft and wade through water on to beaches. Japanese troops firing at incoming American forces with rifles and machine gun fire. American soldier raises American flag on island. Artillery fired and U.S. Army tanks advance. Wounded U.S. soldiers carried on litters. U.S. Army soldiers staying low and crawling on beach to avoid enemy fire. U.S. Army soldiers advancing, using rifle fire, hand grenades, and flamethrowers to attack entrenched Japanese enemy positions. Dead Japanese soldiers. Smoke arising from explosions in jungle.
U.S. Navy defeats the Japanese Fleet in the Philippines during World War II.
United States Naval victory in Philippines in World War 2. The U.S. carriers including USS Lexington, USS Wasp and USS Hornet underway. The U.S. Navy planes on the carriers. Crew loads bombs onto the planes. A U.S. pilot wearing a helmet in the cockpit. Plane taxis and takes off. F6F Hellcats, TBF Avengers and SB2C Helldivers in flight. A map shows U.S. position at Leyte. Views of Japanese enemy aircraft attacking U.S. ships as U.S. ships fire guns at Japanese aircraft. A Japanese airplane is hit and spirals out of control into the sea. USS Princeton is bombed. Soldier watches through binoculars. The ship USS Princeton damaged and smoking. Damaged U.S. Curtiss SB2C Helldiver aircraft make spectacular landings on a carrier. The map shows advance of the U.S. Naval fleet. An animated cartoon caricature of Hideki Tojo being punched by a U.S. Navy sailor.
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