# WWII COMBAT BULLETIN NO.40 ATTACK ON MANILA HARBOR & INVASION OF PHILIPPINES 25574

In the U.S. military’s Combat Bulletin No. 40 from 1945, viewers see footage from the Allied forces attack on Manila Harbor, the first landing on Luzon, action along the Western Front and Alsace, the damage from a bombing campaign targeting the oil refinery at Merkwiller, a British carrier fleet attacking Sumatra, and Allied airstrikes on Celebes. The newsreel starts with carrier planes of the 3rd Fleet firing on the Japanese naval base in Manila Harbor. A plane fires at an above-ground oil tank (01:09). Allied aircraft strafe grounded Japanese planes. Then the newsreel takes viewers to the Allied landing on Luzon, first showing the fleet at sea (02:01) and fighting at night about six miles away from the cameraman. U.S. troops fire naval guns at Japanese targets (02:30). On 9 January, the 6th Army storms the beaches along the Lingayen coast with amphibious tanks and LCVPs. The American soldiers move inland toward the capital of Lingayen (03:33). Filipino laborers help U.S. forces expand a captured Japanese airstrip (04:07). The 37th Division moves inland on the Dagupan River (04:38). The 6th Army drives into liberated areas where civilians cheer the Americans. General Douglas MacArthur walks with his chief of staff Lt. Gen. Richard K Sutherland. The film shows a 1941 Japanese memorial in Damortis that was built in 1941 (06:03). U.S. troops fire mortars at Japanese forces as they push farther inland. Filipino guerillas are given grenades and shown how to use them. A soldier…

- Kind: Film
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: War, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/25574attackonmanilaharbor)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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