Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Orientation Films. 1942 - 1949. WESTWARD IS BATAAN

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Orientation Films. 1942 - 1949. WESTWARD IS BATAAN

1945

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Reel 1, Japanese footage shows the attack on Pearl Harbor, Gen. Wainwright's surrender to Japanese officers on Corregidor, and Gen. Homma in Manila. Gen. MacArthur studies a map. The 1st Cavalry Division advances on Manus, Admiralty Islands. Los Negros, is reconnoitered by troops in rubber rafts. The 1st Cavalry, under aerial and naval bombardment, lands on Los Negros. Reel 2, B-25's and British Spitfires give low level cover. Infantry advance through a jungle. An airstrip is captured and wounded carried from the jungle and given plasma. Gen. MacArthur comes ashore and congratulates the troops. Shows corpses of Japanese. Adm. Nimitz and Gen. MacArthur study maps. Show wrecked Japanese planes. A Japanese convoy is strafed and bombed. Australian infantry advance through New Guinea jungles on Wewak and Hollandia. 1st Cavalry troops are briefed before the New Guinea landings. Reel 3, 6th Army troops are assembled on a dock; troops clean weapons, sew, play cards, eat, and shave aboard ships rendezvousing off Hollandia. Naval guns and rockets bombard the beach; landing craft hit undefended beaches. MacArthur confers with his staff. LCIs and LSTs bring the main body of troops ashore. Tanks advance into the jungle. Reel 4, "buffalo" vehicles crush jungle underbrush in which Japanese snipers are holed; many are killed and the others routed out. Javanese, enslaved by the Japanese, are fed and given first aid. Infantry advance toward the Hollandia airstrip; Japanese suicide squads are destroyed in the jungle. Field guns are pulled through mud and the airstrip captured. "Buffalos" are used to cross a lake; infantry advance through the jungle and capture Aitape airstrip. Artillery at Arrara shells Wakde island; the 163rd Regiment lands unopposed on Wakde from barges, but is halted at the jungle's edge. Tanks and infantry infiltrate the brush; grenades and flamethrowers are used to mop up snipers; the airstrip istaken and engineers begin its reconstruction. 41st Infantry Division troops land on Biak, roll through the jungle on "buffalos," and capture the airstrip.

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