WWII - 1945, 1st Battalion, 35th Regiment Combat Team, 25th Division on Luzon, 02Apr45

WWII - 1945, 1st Battalion, 35th Regiment Combat Team, 25th Division on Luzon, 02Apr45 Slate: #1, Morton. MS Soldier firing rifle grenades as another watches; another fires automatic rifle from waist; from shoulder. Solders approaching smoking farm buildings w/ smoke bombs going off, throws grenade. Building burns. 11:37:33 Explosion in field; troops crossing field, along & across rice paddies. Building burning. 11:38:19 Upside down US Army tank. Soldiers throw phosphorus grenades into small farm building. Building burns, MCU. 11:39:15 Interior of destroyed Japanese factory or hanger; garage. Troops remove mines; sweeping for mines. 11:39:58 GI inspecting cave, throws grenade in. 11:40:15 Slate - illegible. GIs & Filipinos around jeep. CU & MCU officer & soldiers. Soldiers advance w/ pistol & rifles, crouching by side of road w/ brush. Advance. GOOD. 11:41:19 Slate. LS of large government building w/ clock tower, GIs, jeeps & trucks a base. MCU soldiers, equipment; Filipino men & women on balcony & at windows. 11:41:50 MCU released Americans talking w/ GIs. 11:41:24 Slate: Baum, Roll 3. Freed American nurses smoking & talking w/ GIs in front of building. CUs, smiling & laughing. MSs 11:43:35 LS pan across city of burning buildings across rooftops; heavy smoke. 11:44:21 Slate: illegible. GI looking at destroyed Japanese small tank & other equipment along road w/ bodies on ground. American tank & dead GIs. WW2; Philippines Fighting; Pacific War; Horrors of War; Prisoners of War; POWs;