This black & white educational film is about the battle of the Philippines between Japan and the United States in October 1944 during WW2. Copyright is 1944. Opening: Brought To Action! Produced by the Office of Strategic Services in cooperation with the United States Navy (:06-:33). Pearl Harbor, October 23. Office of the Navy door. A telegram shows the second battle of the Philippines had begun. Battleships at sea. Men in a briefing room. Pilots head for their planes. Planes in formation dive bomb targets. Targets such as Paramushiro Island, Mindanao Island, Ryukyu Islands, Manila in the Philippines, and Formosa Island. A ship is blown to bits by the Americans (:34-2:10). American planes in the sky. Ships head for the Philippines. GIs on the ships relax before the attack. A map of the Philippines. Ships fire artillery. Amphibious craft land on the shores of the Philippines. General MacArthur walks through the water (2:11-3:56). Newspaper headline. U.S. Navy use binoculars. Japanese fleet. Japanese Zeros take off. Japanese Officer tells his men that the end is near for the Americans. Japanese soldiers cheer (3:57-5:06). U.S. soldiers walk through a field. Japanese war plan. U.S. submarines report on the Japanese positions. U.S. subs sinks two Japanese Cruisers. Planes take off from American Carriers (5:07-6:52). Ships at sea. Explosions on the sea at night. U.S. Admiral Kincaid has to make a decision. A hand draws on a map. Island of Leyte. U.S. Battleships at sea, the California, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the Tennessee (6:53-8:48). The ship's guns are fired. Weaponry lights up the sky at night. Japanese ship on fire in the gulf. Japanese battleships. U.S. battleship fires. Admiral Halsey looks over a map, strategizes (8:49-11:16). Japanese Zero on fire. Japanese fleet fires at American ships. Markings drawn on a map. Japanese fleet, pilots run to their planes. Japanese Zeros take off. American planes in the sky (11:17-13:15). American planes bank left and head down. Bombs are dropped on Japanese ships. Americans fire. Japanese Zero is shot out of the sky. Plane after plane from the Japanese forces are shot out of the sky (13:16-15:10). American planes crash down onto a U.S. ship. Medics work on American pilots. American artillery is fired and more Japanese planes are shot down. American planes take off (15:11-17:00). Cockpit POV shows American pilots shooting down Japanese planes and shooting at Japanese ships. American ships and planes destroy Japanese ships, some of which turn and flee due to damage. Japanese soldiers float in the water (17:01-18:58). An American airmen dead in his plane on the ship. The men on the ship decide to bury the pilot in his plane at sea. A funeral at sea. The plane with the pilot is pushed into the ocean. American planes in the sky. Battleships at sea (18:59-20:55). End credits (20:56-21:06).
