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“Appointment in Tokyo” is a powerful 1945 documentary produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps. It chronicles the dramatic return of General Douglas MacArthur to the Philippines and the ultimate Allied victory over Japan during World War II. Featuring original war footage, this film captures key military campaigns in the Pacific and highlights the strategic operations that led to the end of the war in the Pacific Theater.
Genre: War Documentary, History, Military
Director: U.S. Army Signal Corps
Narration: Reed Hadley
Year: 1945
Language: English
Produced by: U.S. War Department
Public Domain: âś… Yes
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“Appointment in Tokyo” is a powerful 1945 documentary produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps. It chronicles the dramatic return of General Douglas MacArthur to the Philippines and the ultimate Allied victory over Japan during World War II. Featuring original war footage, this film captures key military campaigns in the Pacific and highlights the strategic operations that led to the end of the war in the Pacific Theater.
Genre: War Documentary, History, Military
Director: U.S. Army Signal Corps
Narration: Reed Hadley
Year: 1945
Language: English
Produced by: U.S. War Department
Public Domain: âś… Yes
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đź”– Hashtag (da inserire in descrizione):
#AppointmentInTokyo #WWIIDocumentary #DouglasMacArthur #WarFilm #PacificTheater #PublicDomain #HistoryDocumentary #MilitaryCinema
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00:00February 1942, Japanese objective.
00:30A regidor.
00:52A president's order to leave.
00:56A soldier's promise to return.
01:00A soldier's hope.
01:02An appointment in Tokyo.
01:04May 5th, 1942.
01:34The enemy lands on Corregidor.
01:40General Jonathan Wainwright, defender of the rock.
01:43Skinny Wainwright's pen wrote deep into the American memory.
01:54From Mora Venis on Bataan.
02:15The death march.
02:18The Japs moved on.
02:37Until Australia itself lay open to invasion.
02:55At his Melbourne headquarters, General MacArthur faced grim facts.
03:01Against nearly 3,000 Jap planes, he had barely 500.
03:06Against Jap millions, he had 11 poorly equipped divisions.
03:11Australians, Australians, Americans.
03:14Against him were thousands of miles of Jap-infested islands and Jap-controlled seas.
03:24Against him was time and space and power and preparation.
03:28Against him was an area that made the vast United States seem small.
03:34American industry and labor were converting from the non-essentials of peace to the necessities of war.
03:41Conversion was slow, and the European theater had first call.
03:56There was little to spare for the Pacific, little to travel 10,000 miles from factory to foxhole.
04:04The longest supply line in the world, a supply line won and secured by naval victory in the Coral Sea, land victories at Guadalcanal in the Solomons.
04:34But the Japs were still on the move.
04:48March 2nd, 1943.
04:52A strong enemy convoy was crawling through the Bismarck Sea.
04:57General Kenney's 5th Air Force struck with every plane he could get off the ground.
05:04.
05:07Score?
05:12.
05:15.
05:20Score?
05:22.
05:23.
05:24.
05:25.
05:26.
05:27.
05:28.
05:30a critical hour. The Jap had been stopped. This was the turning point. The job of fighting back
05:38to the Philippines and beyond to Japan required the closest teamwork of sea, land, and air forces.
05:45This brought together Douglas MacArthur and Chester Nimitz. Washington had a plan, two roads back to
05:51the Philippines, one from Hawaii along the string of coral fortresses, the Gilberts, Marshalls,
05:58Marianas, to Palau. This was the job for naval and army forces under Admiral Nimitz. Another
06:05from Australia would cut through the jungle of New Guinea, up the stairway of islands to
06:10Moratai. This was the job for the army and navy forces under the soldier who had made a promise
06:16to return.
06:28First, the air arm reached ahead.
06:43Second, amphibious assault. Hit them where they ain't.
06:58Up from Australia and across jungle-clad New Guinea, we learned amphibious warfare and
07:14used the sea lanes for surprise until we had cut off Jap-packed Rabaul and stood on the
07:20admiralty. By now, the Japs were dug in and ready at WIWAC. So we surprised Hollandia. WIWAC bypassed.
07:32Strategy. Surprise. Up the stairway of islands.
07:48Moratai. The GIs of the Southwest Pacific were dug in and ready for the main event. To get
08:03here, they had left a lot of Japs behind them. Box score? 152,000 dead. 160,000 bypassed. This
08:16total of 312,000 Japs had cost us 13,000 dog tags nailed to white crosses.
08:40Meantime, the forces commanded by Admiral Nimitz in Hawaii faced a different kind of war. There
08:45were no places to hit them where they ain't. Every coral atoll we invaded would have to be taken
08:52Jap by Jap.
09:15Westward through the Central Pacific. New names in American history. Tarawa in the Gilberts.
09:34Guadulain in the Marshalls. Saipan and Guam in the Marianas. Palau. Palau and Moratai. We had bridged the Pacific.
09:52In early October, 1944, a combat-loaded convoy from Pearl Harbor was on its way to strike the enemy stronghold at Yap.
10:13One afternoon, a top-secret code message broke radio silence. For three years, our expanding Navy and Air Forces had prowled the Pacific, cutting Jap supply lines, smashing airstrips, blasting garrisons, until Jap losses made possible.
10:43A big change of plans.
10:53From Admiral Nimitz. Instructions to change course. Yap invasion canceled. Rendezvous with task forces headed for a new objective. The Philippines.
11:04Now, guess this. These are the Philippines. Up at the top is Luzon, the most important island.
11:15Manila. The Japs are expecting us here. Down at the bottom is Mindanao, another place the Japs are expecting us. Got it?
11:28Okay. So we don't hit Luzon. We don't hit Mindanao. We hit here, right in the middle. At Lacy's. Now remember, don't get careless. They're the same kind of Japs they've always been. Any questions?
11:47Questions? Sure. The silent kind.
11:54Yes. There are always questions.
12:01And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people, and I have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters.
12:18And I am come down to deliver them out of that land unto a good land.
12:25An army is a collection of men. And a man is a collection of needs. One of these needs is prayer. And prayer is a form of remembering. Remember?
12:39Remember? Yeah. Back in those canvas hotels in the staging area. Where two can live as cheap as 2,000. Yeah, I remember. I remember Joe getting all polished up to go nowhere. What a character.
12:59Funny how the unimportant things were important. Like the first beer you had in nine months. Like Texan's accordion.
13:12And you remember packing.
13:14And you remember packing. Cutting down to just what you need, because what you take, you take on your back. And you remember the things you left behind.
13:30All the things you left behind. To the lone prairie. All the things you wanted to say and couldn't. And when I die. And all the things you wanted to take and couldn't.
13:42Meet the western sky. On the lone prairie.
13:53I don't know.
14:19You remember?
14:22You remember watching the submarine net slip by, thinking,
14:27well, this is it.
14:28I'm on my way.
14:35We were all underway, and there wasn't much to do about it.
14:39Just sit around and wait for the Navy to take us to the Japs.
14:52It's funny how you remember all those things at a time like this.
15:22October 20th, 1944.
15:39The men of MacArthur have returned.
15:52The men of MacArthur have returned.
16:22The first to land, some the first to fall.
16:52The men of MacArthur have returned.
16:54The men of MacArthur have returned.
16:56Captured Jap film.
16:58The enemy waits.
17:00General Yamashita commanding.
17:02General Yamashita commanding.
17:04General Yamashita dominion.
17:06Captain wspino.
17:08There Ma'am.
17:10Ha!
17:12Paul!
17:14The men of MacArthur have returned.
17:15Let's go.
17:45Let's go.
18:15Let's go.
18:45Let's go.
19:15Let's go.
19:17Let's go.
19:19Let's go.
19:25Let's go.
19:27Let's go.
19:29Let's go.
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20:01Let's go.
20:03Let's go.
20:05Let's go.
20:07Let's go.
20:09Let's go.
20:11Let's go.
20:13Let's go.
20:15Let's go.
20:17Let's go.
20:19Let's go.
20:21Let's go.
20:23Let's go.
20:25Let's go.
20:27Let's go.
20:29Let's go.
20:39Let's go.
20:41Let's go.
20:43Let's go.
20:45Let's go.
20:47was determined to hold Leyte at any cost.
20:50To do this, he siphoned troops from garrisons of all neighboring islands.
21:01More captured film.
21:03Bandy-legged NIP infantrymen like these poured into Leyte.
21:10We answered the challenge with a meat grinder offensive against reinforced Jap positions.
21:17While the G.I.s pressed forward, grabbing ground, suddenly a new threat developed.
21:34The Jap fleet appeared, heading directly for both entrances to Leyte Gulf,
21:39moving to blast loose our toehold in the Philippines.
21:47There wasn't much ground troops could do about this threat from the rear.
21:51This was a job for the Navy.
21:52The first engagement was fought at night.
22:03On shore, everybody sweated it out, from G.I. to General.
22:26Our heaviest artillery was turned around toward the sea.
22:34They looked big.
22:36But against naval broadsides, they'd be like pistols against rifles.
22:43Next, our jeep carriers put the sting of death in the air east of Leyte Gulf.
22:51Jap land-based fighters and bombers reinforced their sea strength.
23:24Some of our flattops, swallowed by flames, their planes still aloft, running out of gas.
23:36Ladies' captured strips were still unfinished, wet, but not as wet as the ocean.
23:54Meantime, east of Luzon, the third engagement.
23:59Floating wreckage and floating japs, we had won a naval battle.
24:29Battle won, beachhead secure.
24:44But to the infantry, it was just another day to keep pushing.
24:50The speed and dash of the first days are gone.
24:55You're not front page headlines anymore.
24:57And being dry is something you've forgotten.
25:02You march in mud.
25:08You eat in mud.
25:11You rest in mud.
25:22You sleep in mud.
25:26And as long as men remember war, they'll remember mud.
25:41When you're hit, guys take care of you.
25:57You're kept alive, if it's possible.
26:00This is the battle behind battle.
26:05Courage and medicine are the weapons.
26:08Sometimes, they're not enough.
26:11This is a cathedral.
26:28A large church in a small town.
26:31But this is only one church, of one town, of one island.
26:38And there are thousands of islands where people like these are waiting.
26:42And on these other islands, life under the Japanese is hard.
26:48We knew what Jap domination meant.
26:57Gorillas had kept us informed.
26:58Their schools were closed.
27:21And their altars destroyed.
27:24Their freedom gone.
27:25Their harvest stolen.
27:39Death rate.
27:41American prisoners.
27:43Billibid.
27:43Increasing.
27:46American prisoners.
27:48Outside, graves for the dead.
27:52Inside, graves for the living.
27:55All of these people, Filipino and American, were waiting.
28:04General George Kenney's Far East Air Force was delivering bombs to Jap targets on Luzon.
28:09Anything worth hitting was hit.
28:12Manila Bay.
28:31Luzon.
28:33The core of Jap power in the Philippines.
28:35January 4th.
28:40The largest convoy in the history of the Pacific.
28:45The largest convoy in the history of the Pacific.
28:45The largest convoy in the history of the Pacific.
28:46The largest convoy in the history of the Pacific.
28:46The largest convoy in the history of the Pacific.
28:47The largest convoy in the history of the Pacific.
28:48The largest convoy in the history of the Pacific.
28:49The largest convoy in the history of the Pacific.
28:50The largest convoy in the history of the Pacific.
28:51The largest convoy in the history of the Pacific.
28:52The largest convoy in the history of the Pacific.
28:53The largest convoy in the history of the Pacific.
28:54The largest convoy in the history of the Pacific.
28:55The largest convoy in the history of the Pacific.
28:56The largest convoy in the history of the Pacific.
28:57The largest convoy in the history of the Pacific.
28:58The largest convoy in the history of the Pacific.
28:59The largest convoy in the history of the Pacific.
29:00The largest convoy in the history of the Pacific.
29:01January 9th, 1945.
29:18This is Lingayan Gulf, Luzon.
29:21Four divisions landing abreast.
29:23We had expected a very different kind of greeting than these cheering Filipinos, who told us
29:33the Japs had pulled back two days before.
29:45These are guerrillas.
29:49Don't let the clothes fool you.
29:51Men like these kept the war going in the Philippines long after the Japs said it was over.
29:56The Japs said it was over.
30:26The Japs said it was over.
30:32To protect the main thrust to Manila, we pushed our left flank deep into the mountains to the north.
31:02Some targets a ground soldier can't reach.
31:05Some targets a sky soldier can't see.
31:08So they work together.
31:11Mountains would have to be bought with battles like these.
31:13They're flying too much.
31:33Too much from northwest.
31:37Too much from northwest to southeast.
31:41That is good.
31:42That is right on the bottom.
31:44Bombs.
31:53Bombs.
31:54Bombs.
31:55Very nicely cleaned.
31:56Good.
31:58But in the target area, the strengthening was effective.
32:01was it back to you?
32:03C Company, a bar regiment,
32:05moving up this draw right down here.
32:07We're in a mission of attacking this race
32:09directly to our rear,
32:11which is about 2380 on the map.
32:15C Company is moving through F Company's present position,
32:18located on this high ground back there.
32:22They're going to pass through F Company
32:24and attack up towards the same hill, 2380.
32:28Now, can you give me a concentration on that hill?
32:31On 2380?
32:32Right.
32:32Yes, we have the 4.2 mortars,
32:35the 155, 105, and 75,
32:37all zero right on that hill.
32:39We drop it right in there.
32:40Sam, I'd like a little 81 in there,
32:42and get direct follow-up.
32:46Okay, Sam, I'd like a lot of light phosphorus in there.
32:50I want to mark it well for his artillery concentration
32:53and also for the screen for these troops
32:55to move on from this direction.
33:01Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
33:16I will fear no evil.
33:18It's slow going up a hillside.
33:29It's slow because you've got the hill against you
33:31along with the enemy on it.
33:41It's slow going up,
33:43sometimes slower coming down.
33:45Meantime, the main force sped down the central plains.
33:52Back of enemy lines was an important human objective,
33:55Cabana Tuan,
33:57the prisoner of war camp.
33:59If we fail to reach these men,
34:01they'll be taken with the retreating Japs
34:03on another death march.
34:06Hand-picked guerrillas and a company of rangers
34:08started on a rescue mission,
34:1025 miles behind enemy lines.
34:12The living ghosts of Bataan.
34:34A thousand days and nights ago,
34:37the death march began.
34:39These are the few who finished it.
34:47Today,
34:49they are free.
34:50Cabana Tuan was a grim reminder
35:16that Filipinos and Americans
35:18were waiting in Manila.
35:20Bataan.
35:20Well,
35:21you have a few we got.
35:27You are meant to do it.
35:29That she was a good one.
35:29This is King Christian Rodgers.
35:31I rock on you.
35:33The End
36:03Manila, now caught in a stranglehold of armies as new forces landed.
36:12And the human vice closed.
36:15G.I.s were in the outskirts.
36:19Crawling under a ballpark fence is an old American custom.
36:27Resolve Stadium, a baseball diamond.
36:33No game today.
36:36No game today.
36:36A.B.I.D.
36:39A.B.I.D.
36:41A.B.I.D.
36:43A.B.I.D.
36:45A.B.I.D.
36:47Battle never stands still.
37:11From baseball park to business district,
37:14this is a new type of jungle for island-hopping G.I.s.
37:18A jungle of broken buildings and smashed streets.
37:22But the same kind of Japs they've always been.
37:25Let's go.
37:26Let's go.
37:27Let's go.
37:28Let's go.
37:29Let's go.
37:30Let's go.
37:31Let's go.
37:32Let's go.
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37:53Let's go.
37:54Let's go.
37:55Let's go.
37:56Let's go.
37:57Let's go.
37:58Let's go.
37:59Yamashita had orders from Tokyo.
38:01Hold Manila or burn it.
38:04Burn it.
38:05Burn it.
38:06Burn it.
38:34The Pearl of the Orient.
38:59Manila, the Pearl of the Orient.
39:01Orient. This innocent-looking piece of paper translates as follows. Japanese
39:10field order of 13 February. All Filipinos found on the battlefield will be
39:15executed. Japanese field order obeyed.
39:31Between us and the walled city was the Paseg River. And Japs.
40:01The Paseg River.
40:08The Paseg River.
40:10The Paseg River.
40:20The Paseg River.
40:25Let's go.
40:55Building to building, room to room, street to street, we brought battle to the Japs until
41:04they closed themselves behind the 14-foot-thick walls of Intramuros, a fortress within a city.
41:25There you go.
41:26Oh, my God.
41:56The jungle didn't stop these soldiers, neither did this wall.
42:25Of the broken wall, broken Japs.
42:28And all around them, broken homes.
42:41Homes thousands of miles away, but American homes.
42:46Because the people who lived in them shared with us the American spirit.
42:50This is the payoff of battle.
42:57The silent reward.
43:01Many have fallen.
43:03That this one may rise.
43:05This one may smile.
43:11This one may forget.
43:17This one may heal.
43:21This one may walk.
43:24This one may find a home.
43:26This one may find peace.
43:30This one may find peace.
43:45And the Lord said,
44:14I have surely seen the affliction of my people,
44:17and I have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters,
44:22and I am come down to deliver them
44:24out of that land unto a good land.
44:36February, 1945.
44:39American Objective, Corregidor.
44:42The general had an appointment with the past.
45:00Corregidor.
45:01The name of a rock.
45:04But it's more than a name.
45:06The way Valley Forge and the Alamo are more than names.
45:12These men will be jumping into the middle of American history.
45:16Those that live will be saying in the years to come,
45:20I was there.
45:22I jumped on Corregidor.
45:24I jumped on Corregidor.
45:26I jumped on Corregidor.
45:26I jumped on Corregidor.
45:27I jumped on Corregidor.
45:28I jumped on Corregidor.
45:29I jumped on Corregidor.
45:30I jumped on Corregidor.
45:31I jumped on Corregidor.
45:32I jumped on Corregidor.
45:33I jumped on Corregidor.
45:34I jumped on Corregidor.
45:35I jumped on Corregidor.
45:36I jumped on Corregidor.
45:37I jumped on Corregidor.
45:38I jumped on Corregidor.
45:39I jumped on Corregidor.
45:40I jumped on Corregidor.
45:41I jumped on Corregidor.
45:42I jumped on Corregidor.
45:43I jumped on Corregidor.
45:44I jumped on Corregidor.
45:45I jumped on Corregidor.
45:46I jumped on Corregidor.
45:47I jumped on Corregidor.
45:48THE END
46:18While C-47s still emptied their human cargos,
46:28our low-flying fighters paved the landing beaches
46:30for waterborne G.I.s who had crossed over from Bataan.
46:48Twelve days after we had landed on the rock,
46:53Corregidor is again an American fortress.
46:55THE END
47:07A soldier's promise had been kept.
47:35A soldier's hope could now be realized.
47:38On to Tokyo.
47:41While vast armies were being marshaled in the Philippines,
47:44the Marines won Iwo Jima.
47:46And Army, Navy, and Marine forces took Okinawa.
47:54Naval guns were knocking at Japan's coastline.
48:02And Saipan-based superports were pounding Japan's skyline.
48:06Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
48:18All this and MacArthur's impending invasion broke the enemy.
48:24The Red Sun of Japan had set.
48:27The might of a free people
48:31had come at last to triumph over the lords of war.
48:35The last beachhead.
49:00Japan.
49:00Japan.
49:00August 30th, 1945.
49:16At Sugi Airport.
49:18General of the Army, Douglas MacArthur.
49:20Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army Forces in the Pacific.
49:25Designated Allied Supreme Commander
49:27to accept the surrender of the Japanese.
49:31He was met by Lieutenant General Eichelberger,
49:34commanding the 8th Army.
49:48September 1st, 1945.
49:52On the battleship Missouri.
49:54Missouri.
49:57It is my earnest hope,
50:21and indeed the hope of all mankind
50:25that from this solemn occasion
50:29a better world shall emerge
50:33out of the blood and carnage of the past.
50:36A world founded upon faith and understanding.
50:41A world dedicated to the dignity of man
50:45and the fulfillment of his most cherished wish
50:49for freedom, tolerance, and justice.
50:54I now invite the representatives
50:58of the Emperor of Japan
51:01and the Japanese government
51:04and the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters
51:08to sign the instrument of surrender
51:10at the places indicated.
51:13The Supreme Commander...
51:17The Supreme Commander...
51:19The Supreme Commander...
51:43For the Allied powers will now sign
51:47on behalf of all the nations at war with Japan.
51:52Will General Wainwright
51:54and General Percival step forward
51:57and accompany me while I sign?
51:59Thank you!
52:00Thank you!
52:24Thank you!
52:24The representatives of the United States of America will now stand.
52:54Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.
53:08These proceedings are closed.
53:24To you, beloved comrades, we made this solemn vow.
53:42The fight will go on, the fight will still go on.
53:54Then, the job is done, now that we've won, we've been to fight.
54:06We'll still go on, the time we've been to fight.
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