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Creator(s): Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 9/18/1947-2/28/1964 (Most Recent) Series: Motion Picture Films from the "Campaign Reports" Program Series, 1944 - 1945 Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985 Production Date: 1945 Other Title(s): Combat report, no. 4 General Note(s): Contributor: Producer, Signal corps in cooperation with the Army Air Forces and the Department of the Navy Scope & Content: On the war in the Pacific, 1942-1945. Reel 1, 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. Contact(s): National Archives at College Park - Motion Pictures (RD-DC-M), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740-6001 Phone: 301-837-3540, Fax: 301-837-3620, Email: mopix@nara.gov National Archives Identifier: 24351 Local Identifier: 111-CR-4 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/24351