WW2 Philippine Island Combat Activities Ashore & Bombardment 1945
United States Naval Photographic Center film # 10725. National Archives description 1) CU Marine climbing over side on cargo net and into a LCVP. 2) MLS Marines going over side into a LCVP. 3) HA MS Four barrels, 5″ 38s firing off destroyer. 4) LS Destroyer of the FLETCHER class, bombarding beach (silhouette). 5) CU 5″ 38 gun barrel firing. 6) MS DD bombarding beach. 7) LS LSMR firing rockets. 8) MS LCS firing at beach (all ships are in camouflage green, etc.). (LCS is Landing Craft Support.) 9) LS Shells exploding on beach. 10) LS Battleship of NEVADA class, camouflaged by the Thayer method, bombarding beach. 11) HA MS 5″ 38s and 40MM guns firing at beach. 12) MCU Crew loading and firing 3″ 50 guns. 13) LS Explosions on beach; LCS near beach. 14) LS DD of FLETCHER class bombarding beach. 15) LS Aircraft flying over convoy. 16) LA MS Sky lookouts on bridge, with officers standing around. 17) LS DD camouflaged, bombarding beach. 18) LS Heavy cruiser of BALTIMORE class bombarding beach (camouflaged). 19) HA MS Overlooking twin mounts on CG ship as it bombards beach. 20) LA MS Man with long glass leaning against signal lamp, looking towards beach. 21) LS LCIs laying smoke screens. 22) CU CG PH shooting pictures. 23) LS Explosions on beach; man and gun mount in FG on LCM. 24) LS LCT as it beaches; ramp falls down and troops run off onto beach. 25) LS Marines advancing up shell-torn beach. 26) LS Shell exploding on edge of water. 27) MS Three Marines on side of hill. 28) CU Combat PH shooting with Speed Graphic. 29) LS Marines advancing down small dusty road. 30) LS U.S. flag flying on place Marines captured; smoke in BG. 31) MS Several Marines around a light tank. 32) MS PH with I MO Q and man typing out data sheet on field; Marines in BG. 33) CU Typewriter, as man types data sheets. 34) CU PH smoking cigarette, wearing a steel helmet; camouflaged tent in BG. 35) MS PH cleaning lens on camera. 36) CU U.S. flag flying at half mast; coconut trees in BG; PAN down to white crosses in cemetery; man kneeling on one knee in front of crosses. 37) CU Man kneeling in front of cross; U.S. flag waving in BG. 38) MLS Man kneeling; bell hanging down in FG; U.S. flag in BG. 39) LA MS Looking up into tower of shelled church. 40) LS Part of Spanish architecture. 41) MLS Native woman walking down street; all buildings have been gutted out. 42) MS Several women leaning against bamboo railing. 43) LA LS Looking up into bombed-out building (SV). 44) LA CU Combat PHC manning I MO Q; four hundred foot adapter on back of it. 45) LS Japanese prisoners walking past and loading into trucks in BG. 46) MS Japanese prisoners loading onto trucks. 47) CU Japanese prisoners in back of truck. 48) LS Japanese prisoner compound; prisoners loading onto back of trucks. 49) CU Old Filipino man. 50) Filipino man and his wife in cart, pulled by a water buffalo (catalo).” National Archives Identifier: 78958
