Reel Number: 221502-04
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1944
Country: Philippines
Location: Leyte,Philippine islands,TAcloban
TC Begins: 21:28:00
TC Ends: 21:37:30
Duration: 00:09:30
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WWII -1944: Philippines: Leyte Roads; 24Oct44 Osmena & MacArthur, city & airfield; 26Oct44 Wounded & Shipboard a) Slate D+6. Oct44 Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines. US army traffic along road, trucks w/ Filipinos. Wreckage. MP directing traffic, thru jungle. Airfield; building w/ blown out windows. Plane overhead. Fighter pilot checking wing damage, into plane. Oxen pulling small cart w/ family on road. 21:30:03 b) 27Oct44 Pres Osmena speaking (MOS) w/ MacArthur on steps of ?? US officers & GIs around. Mac shake s hands of Filipino soldier & Osmena. Airfield & fighter plane lands. Taxiis & taking off, airstrip lined w/ tents. POV from plane past equipment alongside airstrip. Seabees laying metal mesh matting. 21:33:20 c) 26Oct44 Treating wounded on stretchers on shipboard. Unloading metal sections for airstrip from ships hold into landing craft. WW2 Pacific Daily Life; 1944;