WWII - 1940s, Pacific: Bare Jap Atrocities, Philippines & Hong Kong; Grew Speaks

WWII - 1940s, Pacific: Bataan Death March Atrocities Told Intertitle: Bare Jap Atrocities. 20:10:32 ca 1943. Commander Melvin McCoy w/ wife & teenage daughter out of house, points at globe to Philippines. 20:10:39 McCoy SOF: “Another horrible example was the brutal beating, torturing & murder of 3 American officers who attempted to escape...” Describes torturing required to be done by passing Filipinos using a 2 x 4’s, then two shot & one beheaded. 20:11:13 ca Apr42. American soldiers standing w/ hands up as Japanese soldiers climb cliff in front; bayonets & Bataan death march scenes: men standing around cliff-like structure at Bataan’s Saisaih Point; then marching by railway line. 20:11:41 ca Dec41 (?). Hong Kong, British & Canadian officers shake hands w/ Japanese officers. Sailors & other prisoners of war sitting on ground in very large group w/ statue behind. Japanese soldiers ‘Banzai!”. 20:12:05 Maywood, Illinois entrance sign; Maywood Bataan memorial w/ pictures of dead or captured members of captured tank battalion. Group of widows & mothers of soldiers stand by memorial; Mrs Albert McArthur points to picture of her son, Albert Cox McArthur, Jr. 20:12:45 Religious service & churchgoers in pews. Stand selling 4th War Loan bonds. 20:13:03 Seated Ambassador Grew speaks, SOF: “These utterly unspeakable atrocities make me, and I should think every other American, want to fight this war on the homefront w/ grimmer determination than ever before. WW2; 1940s; Captured troops; Prisoners of War; POWs;