Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [MARCH 3]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [MARCH 3]

1945

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Part 1, on the U.S. liberation of Manila. Includes aerial views of the city. 11th Airborne Div. troops drop near the city. The 1st Cav. and 37th Div. join the attack. Natives greet U.S. troops on Manila's outskirts. Filipino guerrillas join the troops. Shows the fighting around the presidential palace, fires raging in the city, and Filipinos removing the wounded. Bodies of civilians lie in open graves where they were killed by the Japanese. A U.S. unit is trapped by the Japanese in the Intramuros of Manila. Filipino collaborationist are captured. Gen. MacArthur and President Osmena enter Manila.

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MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964

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General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964) was an American five-star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines campaign, which made him and his father Arthur MacArthur Jr. the first father and son to be awarded the medal. He was one of only five to rise to the ...