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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221145-02
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1945
Country: Philippines,USA
Location: Malabang
TC Begins: 00:07:44
TC Ends: 00:19:05
Duration: 00:11:21
WWII - 1945, Philippines: Air Support For Guerillas. 04-17Apr45 R1 of 2 C-47 cargo plane on grass airfield, US troops & Filipino guerrillas unloading supplies onto trucks for Operation Greenland 05-07Apr45. Guerrillas w/ rifles sitting on back of departing truck. Unload 55 gallon drums of fuel. Pan of takeoffs & landings as men watch. Cargo plane taxiing, takeoff again from Dansalan airstrip. Captain Jarnigan, 13th AAF Operations & guerrilla soldiers place banana stalk markers at end of Malabang airstrip. 00:09:59 Fighter planes (?) B-25s aerial bombardment, napalm? explosions over jungle. US troops & guerrillas in field look at maps etc.. Soldier on field telephone. Aircraft overhead dropping bombs in distance; black smoke clouds. Woman briefly visible. 00:12:08 AVs photo reconnaissance. Philippine landscape and coastline w/ encampment. Explosions visible. 00:13:55 Allied field encampment, troops use communications equipment. Officer w/ map. Fighter plane? takeoffs. Small boat in water. More AVs inc napalm bombs exploding on shoreline & inland. Troops w/ guerrillas. Further pans A-24 (?) plane takeoffs from field. WW2 Pacific War; Lt. Tore Knudson, Guerrilla officer (on walkie-talkie).