Return to Guam

Return to Guam Battle scenes: US troops / Marines and tanks in jungle fighting. Charred bodies. Tending to wounded. US radio operator in foxhole. Soldier commenting looking thru binoculars and other genuine sound recording of soldiers talking throughout battle - officers shouting orders etc.. US troops use flame-thrower to flush out Japanese from underground tunnels. Stretcher party carrying injured GI. Wounded man transferred to ship. Debris on beach. Battlefield service. Surviving GIs kneel to remember dead comrades. Japanese prisoners of war into trucks. 16:03:07 Jeep with loudspeakers making announcement re Geneva Convention - calling for surrender of Japanese. Japanese civilians including women and children come down from the hills where they have been hiding from the fighting. American medic treats Japanese woman’s wound on leg. 16:03:44 Debris after fighting - damaged buildings; Marines patrol streets and clean off sign of Marine Naval base Guam. American naval ships off Guam. 16:04:21 Warrant Officer George Tweed ? makes report re his time on Guam - how the Japanese beat and tortured local native slave labour in building defences - overlaid over shots of wrecked defences. Tweed talks re Japanese atrocities to the natives of Guam - overlaid over shots of natives at funeral service. Dead and bloated bodies with hands tied, some beheaded - victims of atrocities. Natives after US return looking happy, receiving food and medical care. 16:06:31 Natives at mass meetings - commentary tells how people of Guam will benefit from becoming great naval base. Diagrams showing planned installations. Construction work - building air strip. 16:07:21 Japanese plane coming under fire from US aircraft carrier - plane shot down into sea. CU memo from USN Secretary James Forrestal re need for sufficient supplies to support drive against Japanese. Pacific War. WWII.