INVASION OF CORREGIDOR, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS ; ERMITA DISTRICT MANILA INFANTRY TANK ADVANCE, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Part 1

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Signal Corps 111 ADC 3356 ADC SOURCE: AFCF (A-227) 3356 FILM: ARCH & APC MP, 860' ea Silent INVASION OF CORREGIDOR Philippine Islands - 16 Feb 1945 AVs, paratroopers land on Corregidor. AV, PT boats, landing craft approach beach. Low level AVs, wrecked barracks and scattered parachutes. MSs, C-47s take off from Mindoro Island. ERMITA DISTRICT MANILA INF TANK ADVANCE Philippine Islands - 14 Feb 45 MSs, CUs, A Co, 129th Inf Regt, 37th Div crew fires 60mm mortars. MSs, tanks of the 754th Tank Bn, XIV Corps, move up from ruined factory building to advance with the infantry. Record Group 111 MCU, severely wounded US soldier receives first aid. Accession Number III-NAV-210 LHS, complete wrecked native residential section. LSs, CUs, badly burned, mangled bodies of civilians with hands ties behind them. killed by the Japanese. Some were bayoneted and others killed by rifle fire. CUs, several women and children among the executed Filipinos. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERB/lzw

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities