The invasion of the Philippines Islands by Japanese occupying troops during World War II. Map shows Manila and surrounding area in Central Luzon. Truckloads of Japanese troops passing on a street. They pass the ruins of San Fernando, Pampanga. Belltower of Metropolitan Cathedral of San Fernando (Metropolitan Cathedral of San Fernando, Consunji street corner General Hizon street, San Fernando City, Pampanga). A horse-cart Kalesa on the street. A woman gets off from the Kalesa. A sign in a Japanese market reads: 'Army wants to buy pigs, fish, vegetables and chickens. For sale rice, sugar, salt, soap, cigarettes. Transactions with Japanese money'. Filipino women buy and sell vegetables and fruits at the Japanese market. View of bananas and corn for sale in the market. Japanese soldiers distribute English language newspaper 'The Tribune'. A Filipino woman reads the newspaper. Filipino workmen construct a building for the Japanese Army. Japanese Army General Masaharu Homma appears with staff. General Homma poses with other officials in front of Lazatin House (523 Consunji St, San Fernando, 2000 Consunji St, San Fernando, 2000 Pampanga).
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.
Japanese invasion and occupation of the Philippines in World War II. Smoke rises as Japanese soldiers fire artillery in the foreground. Mountains in the foreground. Japanese bomber aircraft fly in formation. They drop bombs on Corregidor Island. Smoke rises from the bombardment. The soldiers fire artillery. Interior of an airplane. A pilot and a co-pilot seated in the cockpit. They drop bombs on a target area in Corregidor.
Japanese occupation of the Philippines following invasion during World War II. A map shows the various mountains of Bataan Peninsula in Japanese. Japanese infantrymen prepare for an assault on Bataan. Japanese soldiers clean their weapons. The infantry aboard a landing craft at Limay in Bataan. Groups of Japanese landing craft sailing to Corregidor Island.
United State prisoners of war in the Philippines during World War II. Captured U.S. prisoners of war in Corregidor Island during Japanese occupation. Army nurses with the captured prisoners of war. A wounded prisoner of war walking with crutches. Injured prisoners of war smoking cigarettes. The flag of the U.S. crumpled on the ground. Brigadier General Lewis Beebe, Colonel Bowles, General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, and General George F. Moore inside their cells in a prison camp. The flag of the U.S. on the ground and the Japanese flag is hoisted on a flagpole.
Scenes from Army Day on April 6, 1934. Secretary of War George Henry Dern, in broadcast to the nation about importance of the Army, in peacetime. Brief glimpses of the Yellowstone River lower falls and Old Faithful and Beehive geysers erupting in Yellowstone Park, Wyoming. View amongst log buildings in Reproduction of Army Fort Dearborn, at the 1933 Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. A pioneer wagon; Native American Indians in ceremonial regalia; antique locomotives and trains at the Exposition. Army General Leonard Wood being sworn in as the Governor General of the Philippines. Closeup of General of the Armies, John J. Pershing, America's highest ranking Military officer. Headquarters of Walter Reed Army hospital, in Washington, DC, named for U.S. Army Major Walter Reed, who confirmed that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquito. Acting on this, the U.S. was able to complete the Panama Canal. View of French dredging equipment sitting idle in the water after Yellow Fever prevented them from completing the Panama Canal. Closeup of U.S. Army General William C. Gorgas, who, in 1904, headed the Sanitary Department that controlled mosquitoes and eradicated Yellow Fever, so the Panama Canal could be finished. View of alligator in swamp near the Panama Canal. Photograph of George Washington Goethals, Chief Engineer credited with making the canal happen. Explosives employed in Panama Canal construction. Earth and rocks being loaded into open rail cars. A steamship transiting the Panama Canal. The Washington Monument; U.S. Library of Congress; and the Lincoln Memorial, cited as examples of accomplishments by U.S. Army engineers. The Wilson Dam, under construction by Army engineers, in Muscle Shoals, Alabama and system of levees being built to control the Mississippi River. The raging Mississippi River during 1927 flood. Flood victims being assisted by U.S. Army soldiers, at a tent camp, receiving food and clothing. An Army airplane flying over a forest fire. Army personnel supervising men in the Civilian Conservation Corps or CCC. Mail being loaded aboard an Army airplane, as airmail service is being opened between Washington DC and New York City. President Woodrow Wilson talking with Army pilot Major Reuben H. Fleet. Mail being loaded into the nose of an airplane. U.S. Army Douglas World Cruiser airplanes in flight, returning from their trip around the world in 1924. A pilot sitting in front seat of a Douglas O-38 airplane, pulls a fabric hood over his cockpit to practice "blind flying". View of the aircraft in flight, with instructor pilot in the open rear cockpit. Army aviators taking a camera and a rifle aboard their airplane as they prepare to leave on an aerial mapping flight. Aerial view of skyscrapers of Manhattan Island, New York City. Army Signal Corps personnel working on communications devices. A cable laying ship operating at sea, in support of the U.S. Army's Alaskan cable and telegraph system. Men loading chemicals into hoppers on Army crop dusting airplane. Several views of Army airplanes crop dusting. Glimpse of boll weevil, the target of their efforts. Closeup of Karl Connell, who as a major in the AEF, in World War I, invented a superior gas mask known as the “Connell” or “Victory” mask. A group of miners wearing gas masks enter a smoky mine entrance. The Army invented tear gas, which is shown being used to thwart a bank robbery, in a staged demonstration. Brigadier General Hugh Johnson, appointed by President Franklin Roosevelt, as head of the Great Depression era National Recovery Administration, or NRA, is seen about to give a speech. Narrator cites him as an example of U.S. Army officers who also serve the country in civilian life. Scene shifts to cadets on parade at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.
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