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Echoes of War is a powerful wartime drama that captures the intensity, sacrifice, and human spirit during one of history’s most turbulent eras. Through battles, strategy, and personal stories, this film reveals the cost of conflict and the echoes it leaves behind for generations
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00:00February 1942, Japanese objective.
00:30A 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 Marravenas 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.
03:23Against 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.
03:52Conversion was slow.
03:53And the European theater had first call.
03:56There was little to spare for the Pacific.
03:58Little 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.
05:04The Japs, the Japs!
05:08The Japs!
05:10The Japs!
05:11The Japs were
05:17Team 4th Air Force in the Oldman Empire!
05:22The Japs!
05:24The Japs!
05:26The Japs!
05:27The Japs!
05:29The Japs!
05:31The Japs!
05:34was the turning point.
05:36The job of fighting back to the Philippines
05:38and beyond to Japan
05:40required the closest teamwork
05:42of sea, land, and air forces.
05:45This brought together Douglas MacArthur
05:46and Chester Nimitz.
05:49Washington had a plan,
05:50two roads back to the Philippines,
05:53one from Hawaii
05:54along the string of coral fortresses,
05:56the Gilberts, Marshalls,
05:59Marianas, to Palau.
06:01This was the job for naval and army forces
06:03under Admiral Nimitz.
06:04Another from Australia
06:06would cut through the jungle of New Guinea
06:08up the stairway of islands to Moratai.
06:12This was the job for the army and navy forces
06:14under the soldier who had made a promise to return.
06:17First, the air arm reached ahead.
06:42Second, amphibious assault.
06:57Hit them where they ain't.
06:58Up from Australia
07:08and across jungle-clad New Guinea,
07:11we learned amphibious warfare
07:13and used the sea lanes for surprise
07:16until we had cut off Jap-packed Rabaul
07:18and stood on the Admiralty's.
07:20By now, the Japs were dug in and ready at WIWAC.
07:28So we surprised Hollandia.
07:31WIWAC bypassed.
07:43Strategy.
07:45Surprise.
07:46Up the stairway of islands.
07:47Moratai.
07:57Moratai.
07:58The GIs of the Southwest Pacific
08:00were dug in and ready for the main event.
08:03To get here,
08:04they had left a lot of Japs behind them.
08:08Box score?
08:10152,000 dead.
08:13160,000 bypassed.
08:15This total of 312,000 Japs
08:19had cost us 13,000 dog tags
08:23nailed to white crosses.
08:26The GIs of the Southwest
08:26Meantime, the forces commanded by Admiral Nimitz in Hawaii
08:43faced a different kind of war.
08:45There were no places to hit them where they ain't.
08:48Every coral atoll we invaded
08:50would have to be taken Jap by Jap.
08:53It's the first time for you,
09:04and there was a many men of ho Hi issue.
09:05Wait forucy.
09:06Otherwise it was a boy.
09:07Don't feel good.
09:07Come on!
09:07Go on!
09:07Get out of here!
09:08Woo!
09:09Go on!
09:09Go home!
09:10Here we are here!
09:10Go home!
09:11Go home!
09:11Go home!
09:11Go home!
09:13Go home!
09:14Go home!
09:15Go home!
09:15Go home!
09:16Go home!
09:16Go home!
09:17Go home!
09:17Go on!
09:19Go home!
09:19Westward through the Central Pacific.
09:27New names in American history.
09:31Tarawa in the Gilberts.
09:34Quadulane in the Marshalls.
09:37Saipan and Guam in the Marianas.
09:44Palau.
09:45Palau and Moratai.
09:51We had bridged the Pacific.
10:15In early October 1944, a combat-loaded convoy from Pearl Harbor was on its way to strike the enemy stronghold at Yap.
10:22One afternoon, a top-secret code message broke radio silence.
10:30For three years, our expanding Navy and Air Forces had prowled the Pacific, cutting Yap supply lines, smashing airstrips, blasting garrisons, until Yap losses made possible a big change of plans.
10:45From Admiral Nimitz.
10:55Instructions to change course.
10:57Yap invasion canceled.
10:59Rendezvous with task forces headed for a new objective.
11:03The Philippines.
11:04The Philippines.
11:04Now, guess this.
11:10These are the Philippines.
11:12Up at the top is Luzon, the most important island.
11:17Manila.
11:18Oregidor.
11:19The Japs are expecting us here.
11:22Down at the bottom is Mindenau, another place the Japs are expecting us.
11:27Got it?
11:29Okay.
11:31So we don't hit Luzon.
11:33We don't hit Mindenau.
11:36We hit here, right in the middle, at Lathie's.
11:40Now, remember, don't get callous.
11:44They're the same kind of Japs they've always been.
11:47Any questions?
11:47Well, questions?
11:51Sure.
11:52The silent kind.
11:59Yes, there are always questions.
12:09And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people.
12:14And I have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters.
12:19And I am come down to deliver them out of that land unto a good land.
12:25An army is a collection of men.
12:29And a man is a collection of needs.
12:33One of these needs is prayer.
12:35And prayer is a form of remembering.
12:38Remember.
12:41Yeah.
12:43Back in those canvas hotels in the staging area.
12:47Where two can live as cheap as 2,000.
12:50Yeah, I remember.
12:51I remember Joe getting all polished up to go nowhere.
12:58What a character.
13:02Funny how the unimportant things were important.
13:04Like the first beer you had in nine months.
13:10Like Texan's accordion.
13:17And you remember packing.
13:20Cutting down to just what you need.
13:21Because what you take, you take on your back.
13:24And you remember the things you left behind.
13:34All the things you wanted to say and couldn't.
13:38And all the things you wanted to take and couldn't.
13:44Meet the western sky on the lone prairie.
13:54You remember watching the submarine.
14:24Ned slipped by thinking.
14:27Well, this is it.
14:29I'm on my way.
14:35We were all underway.
14:37And there wasn't much to do about it.
14:39Just sit around and wait for the Navy to take us to the Japs.
14:43Funny how you remember all those things.
15:01At a time like this.
15:02The Japs the Japs.
15:11The Japs.
15:15The Japs.
15:16October 20th, 1944.
15:39The men of MacArthur have returned.
15:46The men of MacArthur have returned.
16:16The men of MacArthur have returned.
16:26The assault waves.
16:30The untried.
16:32The veteran.
16:34The eager.
16:38The superstitious.
16:44The first to land.
16:46Some the first to fall.
16:50Captured Jap film.
16:58The enemy waits.
17:00General Yamashita commanding.
17:02General Yamashita commanding.
17:04The defense Laird.
17:06The teen.
17:10The격 shot!
17:14Theksiili.
17:16Theksiili.
17:18The lake is extensive.
17:20Into치마.
17:22Oh, my God.
17:52Oh, my God.
18:22Oh, my God.
18:52Oh, my God.
19:22Oh, my God.
19:52Oh, my God.
20:22Oh, my God.
20:52Oh, my God.
21:22Oh, my God.
21:52Oh, my God.
22:22On shore, everybody sweated it out, from G.I. to general.
22:26Oh, my God.
22:30Our heaviest artillery was turned around toward the sea.
22:34They looked big.
22:36They looked big, but against naval broadsides, they'd be like pistols against rifles.
22:44Next, our jeep carriers put the sting of death in the air east of Lady Gulf.
22:48Jap, land-based fighters, and bombers reinforced their sea strength.
22:54They're sea strength.
23:24Some of our feet, they put them, their planes, their planes, their planes, their planes, theirWorld, but –
23:30some of our flat-tops, swallowed by flames, their plane, still aloft, running out of gas.
23:34Some of our flat-tops swallowed by flames.
23:35They're planes still aloft, running out of gas.
23:36Ladies' captured strips were still unfinished, wet, but not as wet as the ocean.
23:42Meantime, east of Luzon, the third engagement.
24:12Floating wreckage and floating japs.
24:25We had won a naval battle.
24:35Battle won, beachhead secure.
24:42But to the infantry, it was just another day to keep pushing.
24:50The speed and dash of the first days are gone.
24:54You're not front page headlines anymore.
24:58And being dry is something you've forgotten.
25:02You march in mud.
25:08You eat in mud.
25:12You rest in mud.
25:23You sleep in mud.
25:35And 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.
26:57Guerrillas had kept us informed.
26:58Their schools were closed.
27:07And their altars destroyed.
27:24Their freedom gone.
27:25Their harvest stolen.
27:40Death rate.
27:41American prisoners.
27:43Billibid.
27:43Increasing.
27:46American prisoners.
27:47Outside, 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, Luzon, the core of Jap power in the Philippines.
28:35January 4th, the largest convoy in the history of the Pacific.
28:45January 4th, the largest convoy in the history of the Pacific.
28:45village 4th, the largest convoy in the history of the Pacific.
28:53In one o'clock.
28:54Let's go.
28:55Thanksgiving.
28:55Minnie 4th, the largest convoy in the history of the Pacific.
28:57Naze is among the Devil buried.
28:58田好 Live in the history of the Pacific.
28:59George Kenney.
29:00James 4th, the largest convoy in the history of the Pacific.
29:01Lance 5th, the
29:0915-1912 of the Pacific.
29:12Smith, the latest convoy in the な temps on Luzon, theconst Street.
29:13The public education and the 209th.
29:14January 9th, 1945.
29:18This is Lingayan Gulf, Luzon.
29:21Four divisions landing abreast.
29:27We had expected a very different kind of greeting than these cheering Filipinos
29:31who told us the Japs had pulled back two days before.
29:44These 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.
30:14The Japs said it was over.
30:44To 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 worked together.
31:10Mountains would have to be bought with battles like these.
31:14I don't know if they're going to be doing okay.
31:16They're flying down there.
31:17They're going to be doing okay.
31:20They're doing okay.
31:30They're flying too much.
31:34Too much.
31:35From northwest.
31:37Too much from northwest to southeast.
31:40That is good.
31:42Now you're flying on the ball.
31:50Get your freedom.
31:51Get your freedom.
31:53Bombs.
31:54Bombs.
31:55Very nicely cleaned.
31:59Within the target area.
32:01Drinking was effective.
32:02The C Company, a bar regiment, moving up this draw right down here.
32:07We're in a mission of attacking this ridge directly to our rear, which is about 2380 on the map.
32:14The C Company is moving through F Company's present position, located on this high ground back there.
32:22They're going to pass through F Company and 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, the 155, 105, and 75, all zeroes right on that hill.
32:39We can drop it right in there.
32:40Sam, I'd like a little 81 in there.
32:42That's right.
32:44And get direct fire with us all.
32:45We'll land right in there.
32:47Okay.
32:48Sam, I'd like a lot of like phosphorus in there.
32:50I want to mark it well for his artillery concentration and also for the screen for these troops to move on.
32:56Please, sir.
33:12Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.
33:20It's slow going up a hillside.
33:29It's slow because you've got the hill against you along with the enemy on it.
33:41It's slow going up.
33:44Sometimes slower coming down.
33:45Meantime, the main force sped down the central plains.
33:52Back of enemy lines was an important human objective, Cabana Tuan, the prisoner of war camp.
33:59If we fail to reach these men, they'll be taken with the retreating Japs on another death march.
34:06Handpicked guerrillas and a company of rangers started on a rescue mission.
34:09Twenty-five miles behind enemy lines.
34:28The living ghosts of Bataan.
34:31A thousand days and nights ago, the death march began.
34:44These are the few who finished it.
34:47Today, they are free.
34:50Cabana Tuan was a grim reminder that Filipinos and Americans were waiting in Manila.
35:20The living ghosts of Bataan!
35:30The history of Bataan.
35:33Academy from Ohio.
35:35The history of the Bataan.
35:39Assessmentheart
35:40It's the best and sunny day.
35:41Until then.
35:42Simple Mon알
35:43thinking tonal곡.
35:44Manila, now caught in a stranglehold of armies as new forces landed,
36:11and the human vice closed. G.I.s were in the outskirts. Crawling under a ballpark fence is an old
36:22American custom. Resolve Stadium, a baseball diamond. No game today.
36:41Battle never stands still.
37:08Battle never stands still. From baseball park to business district, this is a new type
37:15of jungle for island hopping G.I.s. A jungle of broken buildings and smashed streets. But
37:22the same kind of Japs they've always been.
37:29G.I.s.
37:32G.I.s.
37:36G.I.s.
37:39G.I.s.
37:43Yamashita had orders from Tokyo. Hold Manila or burn it.
37:50G.I.s.
38:07G.I.s.
38:08G.I.s.
38:09G.I.s.
38:10G.I.s.
38:11G.I.s.
38:13G.I.s.
38:15The End
38:45Manila, the Pearl of the Orient.
39:04This innocent-looking piece of paper translates as follows.
39:09Japanese field order of 13 February.
39:12All Filipinos found on the battlefield will be executed.
39:22Japanese field order obeyed.
39:24Between us and the walled city was the Paseg River.
39:40And Japs.
39:41The End
39:46Let's go.
40:16Let's go.
40:46Let's go.
40:57Building 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.
41:10No.
41:12Let's go.
41:14Let's go.
41:18Let's go.
41:20Let's go.
41:22Let's go.
41:24Let's go.
41:26Let's go.
41:28Let's go.
41:30Let's go.
41:32Let's go.
41:34Let's go.
41:36Let's go.
41:38Let's go.
41:40Let's go.
41:42Let's go.
41:44Let's go.
41:46Let's go.
41:48Let's go.
41:50Let's go.
41:52Let's go.
42:00The jungle didn't stop these soldiers, neither did this wall.
42:25The back of the broken wall, broken Japs, and all around them, broken homes, homes thousands
42:43of miles away, but American homes, because the people who lived in them shared with us
42:49the American spirit.
42:52This is the payoff of battle, the silent reward.
43:29Take peace.
44:12And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people, and I have heard their cry
44:19by reason of their taskmasters, and I am come down to deliver them out of that land unto
44:26a good land.
44:34February 1945, American objective, Corregidor.
44:41Corregidor.
44:42The general had an appointment with the past.
44:48Corregidor.
44:49Corregidor.
44:50The name of a rock.
44:51But it's more than a name.
44:53The way Valley Forge and the Alamo are more than names.
44:55These men will be jumping into the middle of American history.
44:56Those that live will be saying in the years to come.
44:57I was there.
44:58I jumped on Corregidor.
44:59Corregidor.
45:00Corregidor.
45:01The name of a rock.
45:02Corregidor.
45:03The name of a rock.
45:04But it's more than a name.
45:05The way Valley Forge and the Alamo are more than names.
45:10These men will be jumping into the middle of American history.
45:15Those that live will be saying in the years to come.
45:20I was there.
45:21I jumped on Corregidor.
45:23Corregidor.
45:24The End
45:54The End
46:24C-47s still emptied their human cargoes, our low-flying fighters paved the landing beaches for waterborne G.I.s who had crossed over from Bataan.
46:34Twelve days after we had landed on the rock, Corregidor is again an American fortress.
46:55The End
46:57The End
46:59The End
47:01The End
47:03A soldier's promise had been kept.
47:34A soldier's hope could now be realized.
47:38On to Tokyo.
47:41While vast armies were being marshaled in the Philippines, the Marines won Iwo Jima.
47:46And Army, Navy, and Marine forces took Okinawa.
47:54Naval guns were knocking at Japan's coastline.
47:57And Saipan-based superports were pounding Japan's skyline.
48:06Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
48:17All this and MacArthur's impending invasion broke the enemy.
48:23The Red Sun of Japan had set.
48:27The might of a free people had come at last to triumph over the lords of war.
48:35The last beachhead.
48:59Japan.
49:00Japan.
49:01Japan.
49:02The 500s and confident walk.
49:12August 30th, 1945.
49:15Atsugi 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 to accept the surrender of the Japanese.
49:31He was met by Lieutenant General Eichelberger, commanding the 8th Army.
49:47September 1st, 1945, on the battleship Missouri.
50:17It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind,
50:26that from this solemn occasion,
50:30a better world shall emerge out 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 of the Emperor of Japan
51:01and the Japanese government
51:04and the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters
51:08to sign the instrument of surrender at the places indicated.
51:15The Supreme Commander
51:42for the Allied powers
51:45will now sign
51:47on behalf
51:48of all the nations at war with Japan.
51:53Will General Wainwright
51:54and General Prushebel
51:56step forward
51:57and accompany me while I sign?
51:59The representatives of the Emperor of Japan
52:12The representatives of the United States of America will now sign.
52:33Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world,
53:02and that God will preserve it always.
53:07These proceedings are closed.
53:30To you, beloved Thomas, we made this solemn vow.
53:41The fight will go on.
53:46The fight will still go on.
53:52The fight will still go on.
54:09The fight will still go on.
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