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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221004-06
Color: Colour
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1945
Country: Pacific,Philippines
Location: At Sea,Lingayen Gulf,Luzon,Manila,Pacific,Philippine islands
TC Begins: 20:51:06
TC Ends: 21:01:36
Duration: 00:10:30
Hannibal Victory Reel 2 Part 3 Lingayen Gulf off Luzon - convoy at anchor at sunset. Night shots: CUs sailor’s face; ships firing guns in distance or something burning ? very dark. 20:52:21 Morning - ships at anchor. Train locomotives unloaded using crane - towed by military truck. Tracking shot past line of RR engines and freight trucks. 20:54:40 Local little girl looking at trains, smiling at US soldier in cab. 20:55:00 Animated map shows next destination is Manila - the other end of the RR line. Ships at sea. Manila Harbour, landing craft full of train wheels, past sunken ship with sign “Slow Down Divers at Work“ . More sunken vessels in harbour, ruined buildings on dockside. 20:56:41 Unloading wheels and chassis with crane; Filipino boy climbs up stack of wheels. Smiling Filipino girl. CU wheels dropped onto tracks. 20:57:41 Sailor walking round ruins in Manila. More shots chassis onto tracks. Crew looking at bomb damaged buildings. Riveting chassis. More shots devastation in Manila 20:59:43 Driver in cab of RR loco Hannibella; stoking fire. Train gets up steam and slowly moves down tracks. CU wheels. 21:00:55 Raising anchor - ship underway. Good. WWII. Pacific War. Merchant Navy.