PHILIPPINE OPERATIONS, LEYTE, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Part 3

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Signal Corps ADC 3201 DC SOURCE: AFCF (A-182) Card 1 of Z 201 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 793' ea Silent PHILIPPINE OPERATIONS Leyte, Philippine Islands Oct 44 Semi-silhouette shots, PT boats under way. RVs, infantrymen in advance cross open field. MLS, two unidentified US officers in fg, advancing infantryin bg. VS, US soldiers advance into Palo. Sign at side of road "Palo." MSs, several native children eat rations. MCU, Filipino civilians collect rice from a shed which was probably a Japanese storehouse. VS, aboard naval PT, US flag waves in heavy breeze. Record Group 111 MCU, AA guns are fired aboard PT boat. Accession Number III-NAV-210 Seq: US soldiers parade past Filipino civilians in village. VS, Gen Douglas Mac Arthur and Lt Gen George C Kenney in front of Leyte provincial government bldg, walk down steps and twd camera. MSs, Gen Mac Arthur walks to pier in Tacloban and greets Pres Sergio Osmena. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERB/es Signal Corps ADC 3201 DC 201 SOURCE: AFCF (A-182) Card 2 of 2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 793' ea Silent PHILIPPINE OPERATIONS (CONT'D) Leyte, Philippine Islands Oct 44 (Cont'd) Travel shot behind jeeps bearing VIPs to ceremonial site. VS, village of Pawling as US soldiers and tanks pass. VS, steel mats are laid on airstrip. Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERB/es

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities