The Battleship, USS Colorado (BB-45) underway in the channel entering Pearl Harbor Naval Station, Hawaii. Sailors in white uniforms line the rails. A Vought OS2U Kingfisher scout plane can be seen high on aft deck, above gun turret. A group of Naval personnel stand on a platform at Berth F-12A, waiting for the the ship. USS Colorado rotates with help from tugboats and moves forward into the berth.
From a film created during World War 2, but before liberation of the Philippines. View of civilians in the Philippines before World War II. Distant wide view of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington DC in early spring. Closer view of the U.S. Capitol and its dome in spring with flowers on tree branches in foreground. Scene changes to Manila, Philippines, and the grounds and exterior of buildings of The University of the Philippines. Vehicles on a street in the front of a building. Exterior view of University of Santo Tomas main building. Filipino students, both women and men, performing science experiments in a laboratory at the university. Next scene shows students in a laboratory of Silliman University in Dumaguete City, Philippines. Students in a class stand in turn, reading aloud from books. Views of younger Filipino children in high schools and grade schools in the Philippines, learning and studying in classrooms, including reading and writing of English. Students at the University of the Philippines in group callisthenic exercise classes on a field. Students in farming classes. Wide view of training of Filipino military cadets. General Douglas MacArthur at his desk in the Philippines before the war, while he was commander of the military defense of the Philippines. He talks on the telephone, attends a flag raising ceremony, and meets with Eisenhower (then part of his staff) and another officer. Filipino government officials meeting, including Elpidio Quirino and Manuel Roxas Japanese diplomatic delegation meeting with Filipino politician before the war. Filipino cadet soldiers at Military Academy at Luzon seen drill marching in dress uniforms. Regular Filipino Army soldiers gathered in a group at attention holding rifles, and then marking in columns in a parade, with horses and military trucks.
Japanese occupation of Philippines in World War 2. Japanese airplanes fly in formation. Exterior of a Catholic church. Japanese occupation soldiers outside the church. Tanks and trucks move under an air cover. The soldiers aboard trucks drive past on a street. A soldier climbs up an electric pole and connects a wire. Other soldiers stand near a sign board. The soldiers advance in the area. Mountains in the foreground. Soldiers setting up telegraph poles. Japanese artillery crew load shells into howitzer and firing it.
Scenes in Japanese occupied Philippines in World War 2. Smoke rises as soldiers fire artillery in Corregidor. A tent with Japanese officials seated at a table. A bald Japanese officer writes on the table. An officer peers through a range finder. An officer discusses a table map with the soldiers. Soldiers dutifully take notes during the meeting. Mitsubishi Ki-21 “Sally” bombers fly in formation overhead and bomb Corregidor Island. The soldiers fire artillery.
Activities of African American soldiers training in the United States Army during World War II. African American soldiers go through an obstacle course and bayonet drills. A flag flutter from a flagpole. The soldiers seated on the ground praying during a religious church service. Official on a platform. Officer addresses them, speaking about education statistics for those in the military during World War 2 versus World War 1. He speaks of Officer Candidate School. African American soldiers seen in OCS and West Point United States Army academy graduation ceremonies. African American soldiers receiving commissions. A woman reads a letter written by a soldier to his parents. A man speaks about United States soldiers. Tuskegee Airmen of the Army Air Force stand near airplanes and are recognized for completing training. An official decorates them. They board airplanes and the airplanes take off. The airplanes fly in formation. An African American pilot in the cockpit of an airplane.
Activities of U.S. African American soldiers training stateside for battle during World War 2. Soldiers aboard jeeps and trucks driving past on a training battlefield. A snow covered area with U.S. Army soldiers in many tanks, trucks, and a M3 Gun Motor Carriage (tank destroyer) advancing in the snow. The soldiers stand near artillery lined up on the battlefield. They load and fire artillery. Tanks advance on the battlefield. Smoke rises due to firing. Engineers building a pontoon bridge over a river. Cavalry units advance on the battlefield. Trees in the background. African American troops advancing against targets in a mix of M3 half tracks APC and M3 Gun Motor Carriage Tank Destroyers. The soldiers fire an anti-aircraft artillery. African American U.S. Army Infantry units lying in prone position fire rifles and guns on the battlefield.
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