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History of operations in the Pacific, from the fall of Corregidor to Japanese surrender ceremonies in Tokyo Bay. Japanese troops land on Corregidor, Philippine Islands, in May 1942. Gen. Wainwright surrenders. Shows captured Americans on the "death march." U.S. planes bomb and sink Japanese ships in the Bismarck Sea, March 1943. Gen. MacArthur and Adm. Nimitz meet. U.S. troops land on New Guinea. Maps U.S. advances on New Guinea and islands occupied from Pearl Harbor to the Palaus. Reel 2 shows U.S. troops resting in staging areas, a convoy at sea, and the landing on Leyte beneath a naval bombardment. Captured film shows Japanese troops and defenses during the barrage. U.S. troops and tanks advance through the jungle. Reel 3, enemy film shows Japanese reinforcements landing on Leyte. A naval and aerial battle rages in Leyte Gulf and the Philippines Sea. Disabled U.S. planes land on aircraft carriers and on Leyte landing strips. An enemy submarine is demolished and survivors picked up. U.S. troops advance through jungle mud. Wounded are treated at an aid station. Mitchell bombers blast Luzon. Reel 4, troops land on Luzon from Lingayen Gulf unopposed. Filipino guerillas are given clothes and arms. Infantry advances rapidly through towns. A patrol liberates U.S. and Filipino prisoners of war. A skirmish rages in a baseball stadium outside Manila. Reel 5, U.S. troops advance street by street in Manila's outskirts. Artillery shells Manila proper. Troops cross in rowboats. Flamethrowers and grenades are used to dislodge the enemy from a fortress inside the town. Filipino refugees cross the Pasig River and return to rubbled homes. Paratroops jump from C-47's onto Corregidor. Gen. MacArthur lands on the island with infantry units. Reel 6, MacArthur is greeted at a Tokyo airport by Gen. Eichelberger. The Japanese surrender on board the battleship Missouri. MacArthur directs the proceedings. Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and Gen. Yoshijiro Umezo sign for Japan; MacArthur for the Alliedpowers; and Adm. Halsey for the U.S. Other personages: Gen. Wainwright; Brit. Gen. Arthur E. Percivall. Movie description from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appointment_in_Tokyo Appointment in Tokyo is a 1945 propaganda film released shortly after the surrender of Japan. It mainly follows General MacArthur and his men from their exile from the Philippines in early 1942, through the signing of the instrument of surrender on the USS Missouri on September 1, 1945. The film is notable for its discussion of the problems MacArthur face in Australia after the conquest of the Philippines, the American militaries "hit'em where they ain't" strategy through the Solomons and Papua New Guinea, and especially the footage from the reconquest of the Philippines, including of Battle of Leyte, the Battle of Manila, and the rescue of American and Filipino POWs from Japanese prison camps. . . S88TV1 - Transport, technology, and general interest movies from the past - newsreels, documentaries & publicity films from my archives.