General MacArthur returns to the Philippines in World War II. Gun footage show Allied airplanes bombard Japanese ships in Mindanao, Philippines. Allied airplane in dogfight with a Japanese airplane. Japanese airplane gets hit and goes down. Allied airplanes attack a Japanese anti-aircraft tower. Allied airplanes bombard Japanese airfield on Mindanao. Allied ships bombard Leyte in Philippines and carrier-based plane bombard the Island. United States prisoners of war captured by the Japanese. General Douglas MacArthur and General Jonathan Mayhew 'Skinny' Wainwright VI and Admiral William Frederick Halsey can be seen. General Douglas MacArthur and his men after landing on Leyte beach.
Philippines Campaign in Philippines during World War II. Smoke rising as the U.S. invasion fleet shells the beach of Leyte in Philippines Island. U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Mitscher, with other officers on a landing craft. The troops on several landing crafts. The U.S. battleships in view. The General with the troops on the Leyte beach. The landing crafts on the shore by which the troops arrived. The General and the troops walk among the trees. Battered houses of the villages in view. The troops near a damaged house. Troops on a field.
Japanese attack and occupation of the Philippines during World War II. Map shows Japanese positions and Manila, the capital of the Philippines, in Luzon Island. Japanese tanks and infantry wade river and march past wrecked bridge and ruined homes in Luzon. Soldiers cross river on bridge to Manila. Soldiers move forward. Trucks and artillery. Wrecked U.S. plane left by retreating forces. Smoke column from fire. Soldiers march in the foreground. Buildings in city. Vehicles of Japanese troops enter the city of Manila. They march past the United States consulate. Ruins of Manila after Japanese bombardment. Smoke rises from city. Civilians stand and talk. Japanese forces enter Manila. Car driving past San Miguel Pale Pilsen and Royal Tru Orange softdrink billboard in Quiapo. Quezon Bridge in Quiapo (TULAY NG QUEZON MANILA, Quezon Bridge, Quiapo, Manila, Metro Manila). People stand with the Japanese flag in hand. Soldiers enter city on tank. Women wave Japanese flag.
Scenes in the Philippines before World War II, from a 1944 film. Exterior of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. Judges and officials of the court seated in the court and trials being conducted. Exterior of House of Congress. Interior view with legislature in session. Filipino President Manuel Luis Quezon seen speaking to legislators and seated at a desk in discussion by telephone and with officials. View of his Vice Presiden, Sergio OsmeƱa, seated in an office. Filpino children pray in front of an altar with the figure of Jesus at a church. Women cross themselves in church. View of beaches on islands. Moro men on Mindanao. Moro man using a bolo (steel blade with handle akin to machete) to cut open a coconut and to cut down crops in field. Moro men gathered near docks at a beach area. Earlier views of U.S. Army General John J. Pershing between time of Spanish American War and World War I. Street views in city and town areas of Zamboanga, Mindanao, with businesses, rickshaws, commercial traffic. A monkey with a very short stub of a tail that is local to Mindanao (stump-tailed macaque). Moro women and men dancers perform a traditional dance and play music. A moro woman spinning a large clay vessel to husk rice. Moro woman walking with goods piled and balanced on her head. Moro men moving a small house using large poles. Moro man getting a haircut. Moro woman washing clothes. Moro fishing vessels with small sails heading out to sea.
Activities of indigenous Filipinos in the Philippines shortly before World War II, from a 1944 film showing earlier scenes. Moro musicians sit beside gongs. Animated map of the Philippines showing the main islands of the archipelago such as Mindanao, Cebu, Mindoro, and Luzon. An American man compares his height to a Negrito man. Negrito men pose wearing loin cloths and running from a field. Negrito boy hugs a U.S. soldier. Igorot people gather near a house in the Cordillera region. Terraced rice fields and irrigation ditches made by the Igorots for thousands of years. View of the Banaue Rice Terraces. Mountains in the foreground. Young Igorot men and women in lowland attire such as Barong Tagalog and Terno perform a rice dance.
U.S. Marines capture Palau Island during World War II. U.S. Marines advance on the Palau Island. The Marines fire guns. Smoke rises in the background. The Marines load guns and fire the gun. Shells kept in the background. The Marines get off from the landing crafts. The marines fire. A Marine sprays liquid fire in a Japanese foxhole. The Japanese troop runs. The U.S. Marines shoot the troops. The dead Japanese troop. The Marines fire and advance. The Marines blow up a cave. The captured Japanese soldiers walk with their hands up.
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