- Title: VM-823
- Summary: UNITED NEWS:
- Description:00:01:50 - 1944 GIVES WAY TO 1945 MONTAGE SCENES OF 1944 NEWSREELS PREVIOUSLY LOGGED, INCLUDING ARTILLERY BOMBARDMENT IN BELGIUM, MERCHANT MARINER AT HELM OF SHIP, GI SHOWS HIS EXHAUSTION IN JUNGLE WAR, COMPLETELY BANDAGES HEAD OF WOUNDED ON STRETCHER, CROSSES AT MILITARY CEMETERY, HAND FLIPS PAGES IN "LIFE" MAGAZINE CONTAINING LISTS OF MEN KILLED IN ACTION 00:02:20 - SUPERIMPOSED HEADLINES IN NEWSPAPERS, "ROME FALLS, "NORMANDY LANDING," "PARIS LIBERATED," "MACARTHUR LANDS ON TAKES PHILIPPINES," "TOKYO BOMBED BY B-29'S," AND OTHER HEADLINES. 00:02:40 - MONTAGE WORKERS IN MUNITIONS PLANTS, HEAVY MACHINERY IN OPERATION, SPARKS FLYING AT STEEL PLANT, PLANE ASSEMBLY LINE, WORD "WAR" IN FLAMING LETTERS ON SCREEN. 00:02:53 - GOVERNOR DEWEY AND WIFE AT CONVENTION DURING HIS RUN FOR PRESIDENCY IN 1944. VICE PRESIDENT TRUMAN POSES WITH ROOSEVELT AFTER WINNING. 00:03:00 - CLOSE-UP SHOTS OF ALFRED E. SMITH & WENDELL WILLKIE WHO DIED IN 1944. MAPS OF EUROPE & ASIA WHERE WAR CONTINUES. GENERAL EISENHOWER AT STRATEGY MEETING WITH MONTGOMERY AND OTHERS. 00:03:33 - CU HAND CHECKS OFF 6TH OF JUNE, 1944 ON CALENDAR INDICATING D-DAY, INVASION OF NORMANDY. CU WRIST WATCH TICKS OFF SECONDS TO ZERO HOUR. CU SOLDIER YELLS "FIRE", BOMBARDMENT STARTS. MONTAGE SCENES OF GIS HITTING BEACHES, PARATROOPS, TROOPS ENTERING BOMBED OUT TOWNS, 00:04:33 - SOLDIER STOPS AND LOOKS AT DEAD GERMAN SOLDIER WHO SEEMS TO BE SLEEPING ON DOORSTEP WITH HIS HEAD RESTING AGAINST WALL. MONTAGE- GERMAN PRISONERS 00:04:45 - MONTAGE CELEBRATING PEOPLE IN PARIS AFTER ITS LIBERATION. DE GAULLE IS THERE. 00:05:10 - BRUSSELS IS LIBERATED, AERIAL VIEW OF SEIGFREID LINE, STALIN POSING AS RUSSIANS ADVANCE INTO BALKANS. 00:06:12 - MONTAGE ANIMATED MAP OF PACIFIC SHOWS U.S. ADVANCES, GENERAL MACARTHUR WADING THROUGH THE WATERS OF PHILIPPINES ON HIS RETURN, NEWS PHOTOGRAPHERS TAKING ACTION SHOTS, JAPANESE PLANE CRASHING IN JUNGLE, MARINES SLOSHING THROUGH JUNGLE MUD AND DEEP SWAMPS. 00:07:28 - MONTAGE ADMIRAL CHESTER NIMITZ AT HIS DESK. ADMIRAL HALSEY & KINCADE POSING. U.S. ENGAGEMENT WITH JAPANESE WARSHIPS, BOMBARDMENTS. 00:07:48 - FDR MEETS WITH CHURCHILL AT QUEBEC. SECURITY MEETING OF DIPLOMATS AT DUNBARTON OAKS. 00:08:20 - CU LAST DAYS IN DECEMBER 1944 ON CALENDAR ARE TURNED. 00:11:10 - ALASKA-RUSSIA SKY ROUTE AERIAL SQUADRONS OF AMERICAN-MADE P-39 & P-66 FIGHTER PLANES ON AIRFIELD RUNWAYS IN FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, READY FOR SHIPMENT TO RUSSIA. AMERICAN AND RUSSIAN MECHANICS CHECK PLANES. 00:11:38 - RUSSIAN FLYERS STAND AROUND WAITING TO FLY PLANES OUT. PLANES TAKE OFF WITH RUSSIAN PILOTS. PLANES IN FLIGHT. 00:12:12 - CAPTURE GERMAN RADIO OUTPOSTS IN GREENLAND. CAPTAIN OF COAST GUARD CUTTER AT HELM. ICEBERGS, AS SEEN FROM CUTTER. PAN. COAST GUARD BI-WING SEAPLANE RETURNS FROM SCOUTING MISSION. 00:12:45 - COAST GUARD GUN CREW FIRES SHELLS AT NAZI ARMED TRAWLER. LIFE BOATS WITH NAZI TRAWLER CREW ROW TOWARDS U.S. WARSHIP FROM SINKING TRAWLER. CAPTURED GERMAN CAPTAIN AND CREW BOARD U. S. SHIP. 00:13:22 - COAST GUARDSMEN AND SOLDIERS CHECK OUT STOCKPILE OF CAPTURED GERMAN RADIO SUPPLIES AND ARMS ON SMALL GREENLAND ISLAND 00:13:46 - FRANCE SIGNS UNITED NATIONS PACT STETTINIUS ADDRESSES ASSEMBLY BEFORE FRENCH AMBASSADOR SIGNS. OTHERS LOOK ON. 00:17:00 - VICTORY ON LEYTE GREAT ARMADA OF WARSHIPS, TROOPSHIPS AND LANDING CRAFT OFF PHILIPPINES. PAN ANIMATED MAP SHOWS PHILIPPINES AND LEYTE ISLAND. WARSHIPS BOMBARD MINDORA ISLAND. SHELLS EXPLODE ON DISTANT SHORE. GIS CLIMB INTO LANDING CRAFTS. 00:18:00 - AERIAL LOW-FLYING PLANE'S VIEW OF BEACH WITH GIS, LANDING CRAFTS, SUPPLIES LITTERING THE BEACH MONTAGE ARTILLERY CREWS FIRING CANNONS. 00:18:21 - SIGN: "AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD PROCUREMENT CENTER". NURSE TAKES BLOOD FROM DONOR LYING IN BED. BOTTLES CHILLED AND TREATED WHOLE BLOOD ARE PLACED IN SPECIAL CONTAINER FOR SHIPMENT OVERSEAS. SAILORS LOAD CRATES OF WHOLE BLOOD ON NAVY CARGO PLANES 00:19:00 - SIGN: "WELCOME TO PHILIPPINES". LONG COLUMN OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS MARCH INTO PHILIPPINE VILLAGE. JEEPS, TANKS, TRUCKS RIDE THE BUMPY, MUDDY ROADS. 00:19:19 - MONTAGE NATIVES CARRYING BELONGINGS ON HEADS RETURN TO LIBERATED VILLAGES. MEDIC BANDAGES LEG OF CHILD. CROWD OF SMILING VILLAGERS WAVE FOR CAMERA. 00:19:37 - GI CARRIES CHILD IN ARM AND HAND OF ANOTHER, AS HE LEADS CROWD OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN BACK TO THEIR VILLAGE. MALE TEACHER PILES BOOKS HIDDEN DURING JAPANESE OCCUPATION, ON TABLES INSIDE BURNED OUT SCHOOL 00:19:54 - YOUNG TEENAGE GIRLS MARCH INTO SCHOOL, BOOKS IN HAND. NATIVE BOYS SIT AT DESKS IN CLASSROOM. 00:21:07 - U. S. PLANES BOMB BORNEO AERIAL MONTAGE VIEW OF BOMBERS FLYING OVER BORNEO ISLAND AS SEEN FROM PLANE FLYING HIGH ABOVE THEM. BOMBS RAINING DOWN ON JAPANESE OIL FIELD. MONTAGE EXPLODING BOMBS SEND UP COLUMNS OF BLACK SMOKE. 00:22:17 - 79TH CONGRESS CONVENES CAPITAL DOME IN WASHINGTON. VICE PRESIDENT HENRY WALLACE, VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMAN, SPEAKER OF HOUSE RAYBURN, SENATOR BARKLEY, CONGRESSMAN MCCORMACK LEAVE WHITE HOUSE AFTER CONFERRING WITH FDR. POSE. 00:22:50 - MONTAGE NEW REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC SENATORS POSE FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS. WOMEN ELECTED TO CONGRESS OF BOTH PARTIES POSE. 00:23:19 - NEWLY ELECTED SPEAKER OF HOUSE, SAM RAYBURN TAKES HIS SEAT IN HOUSE. 00:23:28 - U. S. NAVY TESTS TORPEDOES STOCKPILE OF TORPEDOES IN NAVY TEST PLANT. NAVY WORKERS PLACE TORPEDO WITH EXPLOSIVE REMOVED IN TORPEDO TUBE FOR TEST. TORPEDO FIRED INTO WATER OUTSIDE PLANT & WATCHED FROM OBSERVATION TOWER WITH TELESCOPE. NAVY BLIMP CHECKS TORPEDO'S COURSE FROM ABOVE. 00:24:27 - SMALL NAVY BOAT PICKS UP SPENT TORPEDO AND TOWS IT IN. MORE TORPEDOES FIRED INTO SEA. 00:25:00 - UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE MONTAGE SCENES OF BUSY NEWSROOMS, BEVIES OF PHOTOGRAPHERS & MOVIE CAMERAMEN TAKING SHOTS, COMMUNICATIONS TECHNICIANS AT SWITCHBOARDS AND PANEL BOARDS. 00:25:15 - DELEGATES IN WASHINGTON MEETING TO SIGN NEW CHARTER FOR FREEDOM OF PRESS. ELMER DAVIS, DIRECTOR OF WAR INFORMATION SIGNS FOR U.S. DAVIS MAKES SPEECH. 00:26:29 - CLOTHES FOR EUROPE FROM U.S. RELIGIOUS GROUPS VOLUNTEER WORKERS OF UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND REHABILITATION ASSOCIATION, MOSTLY WOMEN AND BLACK, SORT THROUGH MOUNTAIN OF CLOTHING FOR SHIPMENT. 00:26:52 - WORKER COMPRESSES CLOTHING INTO BALES WITH MACHINE. BALES ARE ROLLED OUT IN HAND TRUCKS AND LOADED ONTO TRUCKS. BALES ARE LOADED ONTO SHIP WITH WINCH. 00:27:37 - AIRCRAFT ROCKETS P-38 FIGHTER PLANE, FITTED WITH LOADS OF ROCKETS UNDER ITS WING TAKES OFF FOR DEMONSTRATION. PLANE FIRES ROCKETS AT TANK ON GROUND SCORING DIRECT HITS. 00:28:18 - SIDE VIEW OF P-47 THUNDERBOLT FIRING ROCKETS IN SLOW MOTION. OTHER SHOTS OF PLANE FIRING & EXPLODING ROCKETS ON TARGETS. 00:28:37 - SILICONE: NEW BOUNCING PLASTIC. WORKER POURS POWDERED CHEMICAL INTO ROLLING MACHINE FORMING SHEET PUTTY-LIKE SUBSTANCE. 00:28:56 - MAN TAKES BALL OF PUTTY AND BALL OF SILICONE, DROPS IT ON TABLE. PUTTY STICKS TO TABLE, SILICONE BOUNCES LIKE BALL. SHEET OF SILICONE IS STRETCHED BY HAND SHOWING ITS RESILIENCE. WORKER PLACES SHEET UNDER EXTREME HEAT AND EXTREME COLD WITH NO ADVERSE AFFECTS. 00:29:39 - NAVY FLIERS BLAST GATE TO MANILA CARRIER PLANES ARE LAUNCHED FOR ATTACK ON LUZON IN PHILIPPINES. 00:29:58 - AERIAL SHIPS IN LUZON HARBOR AND INLAND TARGETS ARE STRAFED AND BOMBED BY NAVY HELLCATS AND HELL DIVERS. AS SEEN BY ATTACKING PLANES 00:31:39 - NEW TRANSPORT PLANES FOR ARMY VIEW OF C-97 TRANSPORT PLANE. SELF-CONTAINED LOADING RAMPS UNFOLD AS HUGE CARGO DOORS OPEN. ARMY TRUCK ROLLS UP RAMP INTO CARGO HOLD, FOLLOWED BY JEEP & ARTILLERY PIECE. HUGE PLANE TAKES OFF. 00:32:51 - U.S. VETERANS RETURN ON FURLOUGH COMBAT VETERANS WALK DOWN GANGPLANK OF TROOPSHIP CARRYING DUFFEL BAGS. RED CROSS WORKERS SERVE COFFEE & DONUTS. CU GI DRINKING COFFEE, ANOTHER BITING INTO DOUGHNUT 00:33:38 - CU SOLDIER GRINS BROADLY AS HE PUFFS ON CIGAR. 00:33:50 - WOMEN IN THE WAR DOZENS OF UNIFORMED WOMEN OF COAST GUARD, TARS, SIT AT TYPEWRITERS AND RADIO EQUIPMENT TO QUALIFY AS RADIO OPERATORS. TARS MARCH IN REVIEW AT GRADUATION EXERCISES AT ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY. 00:34:16 - TAR COMMANDER DOROTHY STRATTON GIVES OUT DIPLOMAS. THREE PRETTY, SMILING TARS POSE WITH DIPLOMAS. 00:34:27 - TROOP SHIP WITH LARGEST CONTENTION OF ARMY WACS ARRIVES IN ITALY. HUGE GROUP WAVES TO CAMERA. 00:34:44 - TWO WACS CARRY HUGE SACK OF SUPPLIES AS THEY SET UP TENTS IN FIELD. CONTIGENT OF BLACK ARMY NURSES ARRIVE IN BRITAIN ON TRANSPORT SHIP. BLACK GENERAL, DAVIS, WELCOMES THEM AT PORT. 00:35:19 - EVACUATION NURSES OF AIR FORCE ASSIST WOUNDED GIS ABOARD TRANSPORT PLANE TAKING THEM TO HOSPITALS FROM PACIFIC THEATER. NURSE CARES FOR WOUNDED INSIDE PLANE. 00:35:35 - WACS STAND AT ATTENTION AT FORT MEYER, VIRGINIA, TO HONOR SISTER WAC WHO IS FIRST WOMAN TO RECEIVE SOLDIER'S MEDAL. PFC MARY JANE FORD RECEIVES MEDAL 00:35:57 - PHILIPPINES: THE ROAD TO LUZON CU MAP OF PHILIPPINES. MARINES WADE ASHORE FROM LANDING CRAFT ON ORMOC IN LEYTE IN SURPRISE ATTACK. MEN & EQUIPMENT WALK ASHORE WITH NO RESISTANCE. 00:36:44 - TROOPS MOVE INTO TOWN OF ORMOC, 3 MILES INLAND. GENERAL BRUCE PERUSES MAP WITH HIS AIDES. TANKS FIRE ON ENEMY POSITIONS. SHELL EXPLODES NEARBY. TROOPS MOVE ACROSS THE FIELDS. ANTI-PERSONNEL SHELLS BURST HIGH IN AIR. 00:37:58 - MONTAGE GIS CARRY WOUNDED BUDDY ON STRETCHER. TWO GIS HELP WOUNDED BUDDY WALK. 00:38:24 - SHIRTLESS SOLDIER WITH HEAD BANDAGED HOLDING WOUNDED ARM IN UP POSITION, WALKS IN FOR TREATMENT GI SQUATS DOWN, FANS WOUNDED BUDDY, LYING ON GROUND IN STRETCHER. MONTAGE MEDICS TREATING AND BANDAGING OTHER WOUNDED. 00:39:08 - SCORES OF INVASION CRAFT RACE FOR SHORE ON MINDORO ISLAND. NAVY WARSHIPS BOMBARD ISLAND WITH SHELLS & ROCKETS. MONTAGE SCORES OF SOLDIERS TRUCKS AND EQUIPMENT POUR ONTO BEACH FROM LANDING SHIPS. 00:41:51 - PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT INAUGURATED AERIAL VIEW OF SNOW-BOUND WHITE HOUSE WITH CROWDS GATHERED FOR INAUGURATION. SOME OF 7,000 GUESTS ARE CHECKED AT GATE BY POLICE. DISABLED SERVICEMEN FROM NEARBY MILITARY HOSPITAL, IN WHEELCHAIRS AND CRUTCHES, ARE LET IN. 00:42:30 - CROWD STAND AT THE SOUTH PORTICO OF WHITE HOUSE WHERE CEREMONY WILL BE HELD. FIRST TIME IT ISN'T HELD AT CAPITAL BUILDING. 00:42:31 - NEWSMEN WITH TELESCOPIC LENS CAMERAS AIMED AT SITE, STAND ON PLATFORM IN LONG ROW. 00:42:56 - 13 OF FDR'S GRANDCHILDREN AND PARENTS POSE ON STEPS OF PORTICO. AT BOTTOM OF STEPS IS HARRY HOPKINS, FDR'S ADVISOR AND AIDE. 00:43:10 - ARRIVING ARE SECRETARY OF WAR AND MRS STIMSON, SECRETARY OF NAVY AND MRS. FORRESTAL, SECRETARY OF INTERIOR HAROLD IKES, CHIEF JUSTICE HARLAN STONE, ADMIRAL ERNEST KING, SECRETARY OF STATE STETTINIUS AND WIFE, GENERAL GEORGE C. MARSHALL AND WIFE. 00:43:42 - CROWD STANDING BEHIND ROPE BARRICADE. 00:43:53 - FORMER VICE PRESIDENT WALLACE SWEARS IN HARRY S. TRUMAN, NEW VICE PRESIDENT. 00:44:02 - A STANDING FDR TAKING OATH OF OFFICE. FDR MAKES INAUGURATION SPEECH, STANDING AT PODIUM. PAN OF AUDIENCE AS HE SPEAKS. 00:46:10 - SEA RESCUE BY HELICOPTER. "PILOT" IS RAISED FROM LAKE MICHIGAN WITH CABLE & HARNESS, BY HOVERING HELICOPTER, IN COAST GUARD RESCUE EXERCISE. "RESCUED" FLIER IS LOWERED TO GROUND IN CHICAGO AS CROWD WATCHES 00:46:44 - JAPANESE AIR BASE HIT BY ALLIES IN PHILIPPINES. ANIMATED MAP SHOWS ROUTE FROM MOROTAI TO PUERTO PRINCESA IN PHILIPPINES WHERE BOMBERS HIT BASE. AERIAL MONTAGE B-24 BOMBER'S VIEW OF EXPLODING BOMBS ON BASE. 00:47:36 - MEN & SHIPS BATTLE WEATHER NEW COAST GUARD ICEBREAKER "MACANAW", CUTS VITAL PATH THROUGH FROZEN GREAT LAKES. CU 20 INCHES OF ICE BREAKS AS SHIP SAILS THROUGH AT 8 MILES PER HOUR. 00:48:08 - PICTURESQUE LIGHTHOUSE SITS ON SHORE. 00:48:25 - DRAW BRIDGE IN RAISED POSITION AS SHIPPING GOES THROUGH THE BROKEN ICE IN LAKE. 00:48:43 - HUGE WAVES TOSS AROUND SMALL LANDING SHIP OFF COAST OF SICILY. PLANES ON DECK OF AIRCRAFT CARRIER DURING TYPHOON OFF PHILIPPINES. AS SEEN FROM CARRIER BRIDGE. MONTAGE CREWMEN TIE DOWN PLANES WHICH HAVE BROKEN LOOSE. 00:49:27 - ALLIED BURMA DRIVE CONTINUES. CHINESE TROOPS CLIMB THICK JUNGLE HILLS WITH SUPPLY-LADEN MULES & BACKPACKS. CHINESE TROOPS OF 38TH DIVISION CROSS RIVER JUNCTION WITH ROW BOATS. AMERICAN & CHINESE PLOT ON MAPS. CHINESE ARTILLERY OPEN UP. CHINESE TROOPS CHARGE INTO FIELD. 00:50:13 - DIVE BOMBERS DROP BOMBS ON JAPANESE NEARBY WITH EXPLOSIONS ONLY FEW HUNDRED YARDS AWAY. TROOPS ADVANCE BY BUDDHIST TEMPLE WITH ANCIENT STATUES. GENERAL DAN SULTAN, U. S. COMMANDER IN BURMA AND INDIA INSPECTS CITY OF BHAMO TAKEN FROM JAPANESE. 00:52:18 - ALLIED BOMBERS STRIKE ON TWO FRONTS AERIAL JAPANESE OIL FIELD IN NORTH BORNEO AS SEEN FROM LOW-FLYING LONE BOMBER AS IT MAKES SEVERAL RUNS OVER TARGET STARTING MANY FIRES IN OIL STORAGE TANKS. FRONT OF MACHINE GUN IS SEEN AS IT FIRES. 00:52:53 - AERIAL GERMAN FIGHTER BEING SHOT DOWN, AS SEEN FROM ATTACKING FIGHTER'S CAMERAS. GERMAN PLANE ON GROUND BLOWS UP WITH TREMENDOUS EXPLOSION AS ATTACKING PLANE TAKING SHOTS FLIES DIRECTLY INTO SMOKE AND FLAMES CAUSED BY EXPLOSION. 00:53:13 - 92ND INFANTRY DIVISION HONORED IN ITALY MEMBERS OF DIVISION STAND IN BATTLE FORMATION IN FORMAL DECORATION CEREMONY. LT. GENERAL LUCIAN PRESCOTT, 5TH ARMY COMMANDER, DECORATES MEMBERS OF EACH UNIT RANGING FROM INFANTRY BADGE TO LEGION OF MERIT. 00:54:03 - AMERICANS IN NEW POST IN CHINA LT. GENERAL ALBERT C. WEIDEMIER, NEW COMMANDER OF FORCES IN CHINA, ARRIVES AT ADVANCED CHINA AIR BASE, INSPECTS CHINESE TROOPS READY TO GO INTO ACTION. 00:54:36 - MAJOR GENERAL PATRICK HURLEY, NEWLY NAMED AMBASSADOR TO CHINA, IS ESCORTED UP PALACE STEPS IN CHUNGKING BY CHINESE DIGNITARIES. MAKES FIRST OFFICIAL CALL ON CHIANG KAI SHEK. 00:55:00 - INTER-ALLIED BOXING MEET ALLIED BOXING TEAMS JOG AROUND MUSSOLINI PYLON IN ROME. BOXERS SPAR, JUMP ROPE AND SHADOW-BOX INSIDE SPACIOUS GYM. 00:55:18 - BLACK BOXER SITS IN MIDDLE OF RING AND LIMBERS UP HIS NECK BY ROLLING IT SIDE TO SIDE, ANOTHER BOXER DOES THE BICYCLE EXERCISE ON HIS BACK. 00:55:26 - CORPORAL BILLY CONN, FORMER WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMP SHAKES HANDS OF FIGHTERS. 00:55:36 - FRENCH AND AMERICAN MIDDLEWEIGHTS FIGHT IT OUT BEFORE 3000 SERVICEMEN AND WOMAN BOXING FANS. THE FRENCHMAN WINS IN GRUELLING FIGHT 00:55:57 - MARCEL CERDAN, FRENCH ARMY BOXING IDOL TAKES ON BLACK AMERICAN FIGHTER, KNOCKS HIM OUT. 00:56:32 - NEW ROBOT BOMB TESTED. SMALL SCALE MODEL OF NEW FLYING BOMB, SIMILAR TO GERMAN V-1 BOMB, IS EXAMINED BY ENGINEERS AT AUTOMOBILE PRODUCTION PLANT WHERE IT IS BEING PRODUCED. 00:56:55 - WORKERS ASSEMBLE THE BOMB. ANIMATED DRAWING SHOWS HOW BOMB WORKS. WELDERS ASSEMBLE BOMB AND ENGINE IS ROLLED INTO PLACE BY WORKERS. 00:57:13 - ENGINE IS TESTED ON RACK OUTSIDE PLANT. EXECUTIVES HOLD EARS AS ROCKET IS FIRED ON STAND WITH FLAMES SHOOTING FROM EXHAUST END. 00:57:31 - CRAFT IS FIRED DOWN RANGE FROM LAUNCHING PLATFORM. AERIAL ROCKET IS LAUNCHED FROM RAMP AND SPEEDS OVER SEA, AS SEEN BY FOLLOWING PLANE. 00:58:19 - LANDING ON LUZON LANDING ARMADA FIGHT OFF ATTACKING JAPANESE PLANES. HEAVY BLACK SMOKE RISES FROM SHIPS HIT BY JAPANESE PLANES. AMERICAN ENGINEER GESTURES TO PHILIPPINE WORKER AS AIRFIELDS ARE RUSHED TO COMPLETION ON MINDORO. CARGO PLANE LANDS ON RUNWAY. 00:58:57 - P-38 FIGHTER COMES IN FOR CRASH LANDING & BURSTS INTO FLAMES. PILOT WOBBLES AS HE WALKS OUT OF WRECKAGE ALIVE. PLANE IN FLAMES. 00:59:29 - LANDING CRAFTS SPEED INTO LUZON BEACH WITH OVER 100,000 TROOPS. TROOPS WADE TO SHORE IN KNEE-DEEP WATER. EQUIPMENT PILES UP ON BEACH. EVACUATION TENT HOSPITAL IS INSTALLED ON BEACH. 01:00:13 - FILIPINO CIVILIANS INCLUDING CHILDREN, WHO WERE WOUNDED AS THEY CAME TO BEACH TO GREET TROOPS ARE TREATED BY MEDICS. LUZON GUERRILLAS SHOW AMERICANS MAP OF JAPANESE POSITIONS. 01:00:30 - DOZENS OF INFANTRY TROOPS GET RIDE ABOARD TANKS AS THEY ADVANCE ON ROADS. 01:01:00 - CIVILIAN NATIVES WAIT ON SHORE AS AMERICAN TROOPS RIDE IN WITH LANDING CRAFT. AMERICAN FLAG FLIES OVER VILLAGE ALONG RIVER, ALREADY TAKEN BY PHILIPPINE GUERRILLAS. CHEERING NATIVES GREET U.S. TANKS. 01:01:30 - TAPE ENDS.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1944
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-823