US NURSES RESCUED FROM BATAAN, 126TH GENERAL HOSPITAL, LEYTE, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS ; ARRIVAL OF PRISONERS OF WAR, TACLOBAN AIRSTRIP, LEYTE, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS ; 8TH CAVALRY REGIMENT ENTERS MANILA, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Part 1

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Signal Corps ADC 3381 DC SOURCE: AFCF (A-217) 381 FILM: ARCH & APC MP, 885' ea, Comp(Push-pull) US NURSES RESCUED FROM BATAAN 126th General Hospital Leyte, Philippine Islands - 14 Feb 1945 MCU & CUs, Lt Bradley and Lt Alice Hahn (?) American nurses imprisoned by the Japanese since the fall of Bataan. (Sound extremely garbled.) MLS, twelve nurses taken prisoners on Bataan wave at camera. ARRIVAL OF PRISONERS OF WAR Tacloban Airstrip, Leyte, Philippine Islands - 14 Feb 45 vs, ambulances and C-47s on airstrip as sick and wounded soldiers are transferred from plane. Ints, C-47 loaded with wounded. (Note: These American soldiers were rescued by US Rangers on Luzon.) 8TH CAVALRY REGIMENT ENTERS MANILA Record Group 111 Philippine Islands I 12 Feb 45 Accession Number III-NAV-210 MSs, LSs, (some shaky) 8th Cav Regt troops enter Manila and march thru streets alongside car tracks. LS, troops file past dead Japanese lying in street. (one soldier spits upon dead body) MCUs, CUs, Maj Gen Verne D Mudge, CG, 1st Cav Div and officers study map at street intersection. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERB/lzw

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Moving Images Relating to Military Activities