During timeframe of Japanese occupation of Philippines during World War II. Ships and landing craft underway at sea. United States Army General Douglas MacArthur shake hands with Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. President Quezon speaking with General MacArthur. A car exits a tunnel in Corregidor Island. Artillery shells in an underground storeroom. A fire control room in Corregidor Island. Soldiers walk inside a building. They discuss amongst themselves. United States and Filipino soldiers defending Corregidor Island from Japanese forces. United States prisoners of war walk along a field. The soldiers load and fire a United States Army disappearing gun.
The Japanese invasion and occupation of the Philippines during World War II. A map of Corregidor Island. The map shows United States Army positions and the mission of each Japanese unit. Panorama of destroyed trees and installations. A sunken ship in Manila Bay. Damaged U.S. forts in Corregidor.
Activities of U.S. Marines on Tarawa in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. A man stands near the entrance to a Japanese pillbox. The damaged Japanese pillbox. Dead bodies of marines lying on the beach. Dead bodies lying near a damaged LCVP ( Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel). Other dead marine lying on barbed wires. A damaged LCVP in the background. Two airplanes in flight overhead. The marines look at damaged tanks. An arm of a dead marine. The marines dig out a tank from the beach.
Japanese patrons, including five young women in traditional dress, line up to purchase tickets at a theater in Japan. A businessman and a woman walk past on the sidewalk. Scene shifts to a Japanese film with actors in traditional dress perform stylized combat with swords. Next, women in traditional dress perform onstage in a ritualistic dance employing fans. In sharp contrast, women in modern military costumes onstage perform precision dance moves in a follies style and a man dances with chorus girls in western style jazz stage show. Scene ends with theater curtain descending as the dancers are still performing.
Segments of film, shot under direction of John Ford,for documentary on Battle of Midway in World War 2. Two U.S. Navy F4F-4s take off successively from deck of an aircraft carrier. A Douglas Dauntless (SBD-3) takes off. Man in steel helmet strains to look directly overhead through binoculars, as a flight of five Japanese zeros peels off overhead and dives. One is seen releasing a bomb. The Five aircraft fly away in trail formation and then reappear flying toward the camera and dropping bombs. Flak clouds hang low in the air. Objects stike the water with splashes. Antiaircraft fire, with tracers visible, is directed at low flying airplane. Two Japanese zero fighters zoom low toward the camera and pull out overhead. A flight of three Douglas Dauntless aircraft in formation.
U.S. Navy during the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands in the Pacific during World War 2. The heavy cruiser, USS Northampton (CA-26) attempting to tow the severely damaged Carrier, USS Hornet (CV-8), while under attack by Japanese aircraft. Stern section of USS Northampton. USS Hornet listing very heavily towards single-stack Sims class destroyer in the foreground. Crew firing guns from Hornet. Flak bursting in the sky over Hornet during a Japanese torpedo attack.
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