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- Title - February 1945 : Manila in flames [videorecording]
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- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - [1945]
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- Extent - 1 videodisc (20 min.) :
- Other physical details - sd., b&w ;
- Dimensions - 4 3/4 in.
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| General Note |
- General note - Battle of the Philippines (1945), Orders from Tokyo (1945)
- General note - Transcript from YouTube [edited]:
[Caption: BGen. Carlos P. Romulo immediately after the war in 1945]
0:08
[the retaking of Manila]
0:09
was a great [allied] advance towards the
0:13
complete destruction of [Japanese]
0:15
imperialism but let us not forget
0:19
the cost of that [advance]
0:23
[the] savage premeditated
0:27
destruction of [the city of Manila]
0:31
[was direct orders from Tokyo]
0:35
we will inevitably bring to trial
0:39
[those] responsible for [these crimes]
0:43
[the leaders of] a nation
0:46
[devoid of] all human decency
0:49
[this film] will be
0:53
[part of the] evidence that will [convict]
0:57
[these] criminals. I have told
1:02
the story of the rape of [Manila] on the floor of Congress
1:07
of the United States. [Manila is the price]
1:12
of Filipino loyalty [to America]
1:16
I want you to see this picture
1:20
from the [eyes] of [the camera] of an eyewitness
1:24
[Captain] David Griffin [of the] US Marine [Corps]
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1:32
the 37th division US Army
1:35
had urgent business [in Manila]. I was returning with them to my pre-war home
1:39
after three years
1:41
absence there it was the familiar [Bonifacio] monument marking the entrance to
1:46
the city
1:46
and just beyond [Rizal Avenue]
1:49
where the first crowd had gathered behind [our lines to welcome us]
1:59
[They] assured us that the liberation of the entire city was near
2:04
the Japanese were retreating from the northern part of the city
2:09
and the four thousand American prisoners [in Santo] Tomas
2:13
[had] been freed only the day before they had been kept alive for three years by
2:18
courageous Filipino friends
2:20
let smuggled food and medicine over the walls
2:23
[Gen.] Romulo and all of us will never forget the welcome they [gave us]
2:28
they were reading their first [mail] from home
2:37
waiting in line for their first American food there were Neil Crawford
2:42
and [Doctor B---?] I hardly recognize them
2:47
freedom [brought] reflection and as evening fell some of us went up into the tower
2:52
[of Santo Tomas] to look out over this city we loved still
2:55
[intact]. We were grateful that the enemy was about to evacuate Manila
3:00
they were putting up only a token resistance
3:03
[they] said he was going to be spared so we thought
3:07
as we stood their vivid memories came back to us
3:13
memories of [Manila] Bay filled with ships from all over the world
3:16
[of] the beauty of the city with its colorful parks
3:20
broad avenues and modern [buildings]: the National Assembly Building
3:25
[the Manila Hotel, and] the University of the Philippines
3:30
with its 8,000 students
3:36
[Manila] was [a] city of happy people… [Free] people [who worshipped] as they please
3:42
[whose] children [went to] free schools
3:45
carefree people [who] dance [and]
3:48
love life [and get it, who loves fashion shows]
3:52
and [pageants] and [parades] and
3:57
Coca-cola
3:59
I remembered Christmas shopping at [Heacock’s Department Store]
4:03
the finest in the [area]
4:07
I [remembered] Francisco Delgado's wedding in the cathedral and how lovely his
4:12
bride
4:13
[was]. I recall the Christmas Eve I spent with my friends, the [Reyes] family
4:46
it was bedtime and I remember so well
4:49
how the [sound: explosions]
5:00
great explosions cut short our memories [the Japs were] destroying the city
5:04
[we knew]
5:05
[that Yamashita] had requested instructions from Tokyo. This
5:09
was Tokyo’s [answer]. Here was Japan’s revenge for Filipino loyalty to America
5:14
we should have remembered that Japanese War history [was written]
5:19
[in] the ashes of [gutted buildings]
5:31
at dawn came after a night of terror, [the] entire business district was gone
5:37
[the] fire still raged in other sections of the city
5:43
combat had begun
5:59
as if loss and destruction were not [criminal enough]
6:01
[the Japs] began to shell [Santo Tomas] the unprovoked shellfire had killed 21
6:07
[Americans]
6:08
40 more were wounded. 21 civilians [murdered]
6:16
21 Americans had waited three long years for freedom
6:20
and now they would never leave [Santo Tomas]
6:30
one of them was my close friend
6:33
[Mr. C---?]
6:41
President [Osmeña] had come to [Manila] to accept a liberated City
6:45
he found this instead
6:52
and he recalled that in 1942 to save the city
6:55
and its people [General MacArthur] had declared [Manila] an open city
6:59
now with the tables reversed the Japanese were pulling the city down in
7:04
firing [ruins]
7:06
with tears in his eyes the President pledged the undying support
7:10
and resistance [of] the suffering people to Japan’s
7:14
final defeat
7:18
even as the President spoke our tanks and heavy guns
7:21
were loading up to do the job they had to do
7:35
refugees streamed out from the Japanese hell sections of the city
7:46
for them [Manila] had become a chamber of horrors
7:59
homeless and sick at heart they were surviving witnesses to the sack
8:04
[of the] greatest [Christian] City in the [area]. Jose [Buencamino and] his wife saw a squad
8:11
of Japs enter the Red Cross building
8:12
and bayonet and shoot everyone there: doctors
8:16
[patients]
8:17
nurses and refugees
8:20
[two of] their own children were among them
8:25
50 burned alive in the Spanish consulate
8:27
59 [bayoneted in Tabacalera]
8:31
[the excuse, there was] no excuse as the refugees poured out from the [Ermita in] increasing
8:37
numbers
8:37
it was evident that the [Japs] were going to make a suicide stand
8:41
[entrenched] in foxholes, pillboxes
8:45
barricades and [gutted buildings the Jap made us [come in] and get him
8:49
[he burned the insides of the buildings] then returned [and fought in there]
8:54
this was [Turawa,] New Britain, [Peleliu]
8:57
all over again in the heart of the great city we have to rule him out
9:01
house by house floor by floor
9:05
[room by room] Jap by Jap
9:16
[fanatical] stubbornness [of] the enemy forced us to throw in [---? the] city hall
9:22
[the] Finance building, [the] Agriculture building
9:25
[and] the National Assembly Building became Japanese [fortresses]
10:11
the end [of a bomb site charred]
10:54
Japanese made a better stand in the heavily fortified post office
11:08
[as] the battle for the post office raged
11:14
other units [of] the 37th division across the Pasig River
11:18
[destroyed?] the historic wall [city] the last enemy stronghold [in Manila]
11:27
[through] deadly sniper fire
11:31
they forced their way over the wall a [lone nun] was the first to escape [then]
11:40
there [were] more
12:05
[the] dangerous business of killing Japs [went on]
12:27
none of them could be trusted even [in death]
12:32
none of them [escaped even] in religious
12:35
[disguise]
12:39
then the shocking discovery [our Jap]
12:42
[dead] was found documented proof [of orders] from the Japanese Supreme
12:47
[Command] for the systematic massacre
12:50
[of Manila] citizens and the complete destruction [of the] city
12:54
among the victims of Tokyo's orders were [nuns]
12:58
of Saint [Augustine’s. Out]
13:05
[of] the dungeons [of Fort] Santiago refugees brought with them the stench
13:09
[of death] they had lived with [death]
13:13
[Sister Martha ravaged] only their [faith]
13:17
sustained [them]
13:31
we were soon to see for ourselves the horrors they [described]
13:40
a baby girl shot
13:45
[bayoneted]
13:53
Mother Superior
14:01
[raped]
14:17
the battle was over we gathered
14:19
our [dead]
14:44
these are the [men who took] the wall city they were the same man who had
14:49
fought west from [Leyte]
14:50
and South from [Lingayen]
15:01
but [theirs] was a [bitter] victory [they had won]
15:04
only devastation here was Coventry,
15:08
Rotterdam, Warsaw, [Lidice]
15:11
here was [Manila]
15:19
those who were left tried to find their [homes]
15:27
eighty percent of [Manila’s] buildings [ruined:] the business section
15:33
the city hall
15:39
the National Assembly Building, the Manila Hotel
15:43
[Heacock’s], no more Christmas shopping here
15:47
the University of the Philippines
15:50
where [are] its 8,000 [students?]
16:01
where is the home [of my friends, the Reyes]
16:04
family
16:08
buildings can be rebuilt but can a murdered live again?
16:12
[bayoneted,] could this be Francisco Delgado and his wife?
16:17
[what] kind of warfare is the shooting [of] children at prayer?
16:30
[what kind of warfare] is the burning alive
16:35
[of] men and women? what kind of warfare is the cold blooded [murder of]
16:40
[civilians] with their hands tied behind them
17:00
in the warfare [the bayoneted] mother and child
17:04
at the feet [of] the Virgin Mary...
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Destruction and pillage
- Geographic subdivision - Manila
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Campaigns
- Geographic subdivision - Manila
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| Index Termuncontrolled |
- Uncontrolled term - Battle for Manila
- Uncontrolled term - David Griffin
- Uncontrolled term - Francisco Delgado
- Uncontrolled term - Gen. Carlos P. Romulo
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