Description
Appointment In Tokyo
1945
Shows captured of wounded Japanese soldier and natives surrendering. General MacArthur at GHQ on beachhead directing battle. Japanese General Yamashita was determined to hold Leyte at all costs and called for re-enforcements from other islands. Captured enemy film shows Japanese soldiers climbing down cargo nets into small landing boats. American heavy artillery pounds Japanese positions. U.S. Troops advance behind a tank. Ships of the Japanese Navy appeared, the first naval battle was fought at night.
Land based Japanese fighters and bombers re-enforced their sea strength. American ships fighting off Japanese planes. Shows many Japanese planes cartwheeling through the sky into the sea. Carrier based planes landing on unfinished airstrip when American carriers damaged and on fire. Shows wreckage and Japanese survivors floating in ocean. Aerial view of beachhead after battle. U.S. Troops march in mud, eat in mud, rest in mud, sleep in mud and wounded evacuated over the mud. Life for civilians under the Japanese is described as brutal, schools closed, harvest stolen. Shows Japanese prisoner of war camp on Luzon.
Runtime: 00:08:27
Sound: yes
File: high definition 1920×1080/24p ProRes422.
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