U.S. Navy bombing campaign against Japanese-held Gilbert and Marshall Islands during World War II. This film taken aboard the heavy crusier, USS Northampton, CA-26. Captain William Dwight Chandler, Jr. (1890-1977) looks out at the sea with binoculars. Officer, helmsman and another sailor on bridge of the ship (interior). Officer, wearing older-style steel helmet, looks out to sea with binoculars. Gunnery officer wearing headphones. A Curtiss SOC Seagull seaplane is seen on catapult, behind him. Carrier at some distance, as seen through railings.
Japanese kamikaze suicide pilot divers attack hospital ship USS Comfort (AH-6), during action off Okinawa, Japan. Damaged USS Comfort. A sign : 'U.S. Navy ship, USS Comfort'. Wounded nurses and casualties are carried and transfered to a van. Burial services are held at a military cemetery on Guam: coffins draped with the flags of the United States are carried to the cemetery. The nurses who treated the casualties shown mourning. The flag draped coffins. Graves of the Americans and the flag of the United States at the Guam cemetery. (World War II period).
A stern-looking Japanese Army Lieutenant General stands on an open field. Several cars are parked at the field's edge, behind him. A formation of Mitsubishi Ki-57 transport aircraft is seen flying overhead. A Close view, from another aircraft, of a Mitsubishi Ki-21, Type 97 Heavy Bomber (Sally) in flight. The Ki-21 seen very closeup. View of crew members inside the aircraft. A map showing disposition of military units on the ground.
A large number of Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-21, Type 97 (Sally) heavy Bombers fly in formation, during World War 2 Next, as viewed from an aircraft, bombs drop and explode on bult up targets below. Then the bombers are then seen flying home after completing their mission. A map showing the area and targets that were bombed.
Film opens panning across damaged remains of former Japanese Prison Camp near Cabanatuan City, in the Philippines, during World War 2, Several men are walking through the site, during the filming. The buildings show battle damage and have been gutted. View of Interior of one building that contains benches.
Film opens with slate reading: "Evacuation to Hospitals." Next, on January 30, 1945, the day of the "Cabanatuan Raid" (Mission to rescue prisoners of war from the Japanese prison camp at Cabanatuan) rescuers are seen carrying a former POW from a building, on a litter. Local Filipinos and others are standing on the porch of the prison building. An ambulatory former prisoner comes down the steps unaided. Several rescued prisoners are seated on chairs, conversing. Closeups of some of them. Two weakened and bandaged former prisoners help each other up some steps. Slate states: "Man with Cane afflicted with Beri-Beri." A severely disabled former prisoner, with a cane, makes his way unaided across the grass. Rescuers and Filipinos are in the background, along with some carts used to evacuate disabled former prisoners back behind American lines.
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