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Title
[World War II, Philippine campaign] (6 views)
Contributor
United States. Army. Signal Corps
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
View 1 (2017-0110). Air strike at Zamboanga: Fifth Air Force "Sun Setters" loose bombs over Zamboanga harbor, Mindanao, in the Philippines, to prevent the port's being used as an embarkatioin point to reinforce Leyte / photo by Fifth Air Force, SWPAQ-B-28-10-44 -- view 2 (2017-0111). New design for death - establishing a new design for death, the oil pipeline for great flame thrower is shown being built up side of hill on Caballo Island, Manila Bay / USA Signal Corps. SC45-13797 -- view 3 (2017-0112). Prompt delivery of scrap metal - heavy barrage from 81-mm. mortars, greatly dreeded [sic] by Japs, is laid down by men of the 41st Infantry Division, now engaged in blasting enemy from hills near Zamboanga, Mindanao Island, Southern Philippines / USA Signal Corps. SC45-13661 -- view 4 (2017-0113). Shows a patrol of the 32nd "Red Arrow Division, in action in the rugged mountain country of Northern Luzon. Left to right: Pvt. Arthur G. Patrick, Pfc. Elmer T. Dillehay, Pfc. Herbert Gorham, Sgt. Herman Dees, Pfc. Dan Chubbock, and Pfc. Ralph Levva / USA Signal Corps. SC45-30464. 4-8-45 -- view 5 (2017-0114). Shows 40-mm. anti-aircraft gun crew engaged near Camalig, Albay Provine, Luzon Island, April 14, in point-blank firing against nearby Jap installations / USA Signal Corps. SC45-14003 A 20-4-45 -- view 6 (2017-0115). General MacArthur often went ashore in landing craft as his forces fought and captured Japanese-held Pacific islands. Here, men aboard the cruiser USS Nashville saw him off (SD-64197).
Four of images stamped with News & Pictorial Section, GHQ Public Relations Office, APO 500, San Francisco, Calif.
Type
image
Format
Unmediated
Sheet
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
6 photographs : prints ; 8 1/8 x 10 in. and 10 x 8 1/8 in.
Identifier
(C)001591701CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964--Photographs
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Philippines--Photographs
Flamethrowers--Philippines--Manila--Photographs
Mortars (Ordnance)
Soldiers--American--Philippines
Warships--American--Philippines
Zamboanga City (Philippines)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Aerial photographs
Place
Philippines
Manila
Zamboanga City (Philippines)

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