BROUGHT TO ACTION Reel 2 · Part 3

Description

Reel 1 maps the history of the Pacific war. Roosevelt, MacArthur, and Adm. Leahy meet. MacArthur lands on Leyte with 6th Army troops. U.S. and Japanese carrier planes take off in Leyte Gulf. U.S. destroyers fire torpedoes. Shows the California, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee in battle. A Japanese cruiser sinks. Japanese battleships attack U.S. ships in the Philippine Sea. Reel 2, Japanese carrier planes take off. U.S. planes land on the burning Princeton and other carriers. An aerial battle rages. The Princeton sinks. Japanese ships sink and survivors are rescued. A U.S. flyer is buried at sea. Shows Adm. Halsey.

Collection

Records of the Office of War Information

Series

Propaganda, Information, and Documentary Motion Pictures