United States Marines in the Philippines during World War II. Marines advance down a small dusty road. United States flag flies after the marines capture the area. Smoke rises in the background. Several marines around a light tank. A photographer with his camera and a reporter with his portable typewriter, during a combat break. Marines in the background. The reporter types a dispatch. The photographer smokes a cigarette and cleans a lens on his camera.
A cemetery in the Philippines during World War II. Close up view of the American flag as it flies at half mast. Coconut trees in the background. White crosses at the cemetery. A man kneels down in front of the crosses. The U.S. flag flutters in the background. A bell in the foreground.
Remains of destroyed church in the Philippines during World War II. A bell tower of the church. A native Filipino woman walks down a street. Gutted out buildings in the background. Women lean against bamboo railing. They look at a bombed building. A combat photographer operates a motion picture camera with a four hundred feet adapter on the back of it. Japanese prisoners walk past and get onto trucks. The prisoners loaded onto a truck. An old Filipino man. A Filipino man and a woman in a cart pulled by a carabao buffalo.
An orientation film about the American campaign against the Japanese in the South West Pacific during World War II. A map of the South West Pacific area depicts islands of New Britain and New Ireland as the chief objectives of the Americans. By taking over these islands the Japanese would be isolated in the area. But a strong defense zone around these islands proves to be the main deterrent. U.S. officers including U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur discuss the strategy to attack and isolate the Japanese in the South West Pacific region. Animated map of the region depicts American plan to capture the Admiralty Island by attacking the island of Manus and Los Negros to be followed by an attack in Madang in New Guinea. This would result in isolation of New Britain and New Ireland and weaken apanese position in the region.
An orientation film about the American campaign against the Japanese in the South West Pacific during World War II. A U.S. Army intelligence officer reads a document as he studies American strategy to attack Japanese positions on the Admiralty Island in the South West Pacific. An officer at a map of Los Negros. Aerial views of the island. An aircraft lands on sea and soldiers in rubber rafts move towards the island. Soldiers reconnoiter the island. An officer at a map and he makes a phone call to confirm the strategy to be followed for the attack in the South West Pacific. Nearly 800 soldiers of 1st Cavalry Division assemble for the attack. They embark onto Higgins boat at a beach and pull away. The soldiers get aboard a ship at sea. A convoy of U.S. ships underway to invade Los Negros. Officers aboard the ship confer. Naval guns being fired at the coast of Los Negros. Aircraft in flight as they provide an aerial cover. The soldiers get into landing crafts from a ship. The aircraft in flight.
Air assault tactics being displayed during a maneuver in the United States. A glider in flight. It crashes as it lands. The wrecked glider after the crash. The glider being towed by an airplane. Military equipment. A jeep and soldiers get into a glider. The glider in flight. It lands on a rough terrain. Paratroopers drop and descend. The paratroopers land on a field. (World War II period).
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