Civilian internees including Americans play volleyball and basketball at a Japanese internment camp at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines during World War 2. Several women internees sit on chairs while they watch other internees play. Children play in groups. A group of boys playing American football. Children playing on slides and swings and playground equipment.
Civilian internees (prisoners) in Japanese-occupied Philippines at a Christmas party at University of Santo Tomas, Manila civilian internment camp during World War II. View of the university’s main building. Christmas tree visible. A man dressed as Santa Claus distributes gifts to children. Children playing with toys.
World War 2 interview in Manila with a released male internee, Stanley Kingsbury, of the Los Baños camp following its liberation from the Japanese by U.S. and Filipino forces the month before (13 days before the interview). A microphone is set on a tripod stand for the interview. An interviewer is present. He introduces Stanley Kingsbury. Mr. Kingsbury (possibly Mr Kingsley?) describes twice daily roll-call operations in the camp and that it was announced there would be no role-call that day, and that the internees knew something was different. He talks about hearing a drone sound later in the day and trying to interpret what it meant (on his 1144th day in camp). He recounts seeing planes flying very low, and a white sheet dropping out of a plane and realizing suddenly that there are many paratroopers jumping out. He says they lay down on the barracks floor during the firefight that ensued between the Allied forces and the Japanese. U.S. GI's came in and told the internees to evacuate and that they could only take a few things and had to leave immediately. They rolled down to the shores of Laguna de Bay nearby where they came under fire from a Japanese machine gun nest that was subsequently taken out. He relates all the internees crossing the lake to safety under well armed escort. He expresses how delighted he is to be free again. (World War II period).
Interview in Manila with a released internee from the Los Baños Japanese-operated internment camp in the Philippines in World War 2. A microphone is set on a tripod stand for the interview. The liberated American internee, Bob Jones, is asked what the internees did for entertainment. Jones says that everything was ersatz entertainment and that they would make things up with old boxes and bamboo. He shows how he formed and "played" a pretend trumpet with his hands, and he performs his "trumpet" rendition of Sugar Blues by Clyde McCoy.
U.S. Army soldiers of the First Cavalry Division cross small stream bridged with a canoe. Soldiers walk down the bank of Cainte river. A bulldozer pulls a string of trucks across the river. Soldiers march across an open field. (World War II period).
Band of the Thirty Seventh Division play for the Santo Tomas internees in Manila in Philippine Islands. Civilian internees applaud the performers. Several internee children dance and perform on stage.
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