00:26Desperate Japs put Manila to the torch
00:28as the first elements of Yanks burst into the city
00:31and proceed with mopping up operations.
00:34Manila is being freed after three years of bondage.
00:37At Rizal Stadium, tanks advance to clean out Japs snipers
00:41hidden in the bleachers and under the stadium.
00:48The cleaning up of Manila is not without cost.
00:52After retreating rapidly from Lingayen Gulf to Manila,
00:55the Japs die by the thousands in a fanatical defense of the city.
00:59No portion of the city escapes Jap destruction
01:02as they retreat block by block
01:04before the irresistible American advance.
01:15Japs are blasted from a manufacturing plant.
01:29As North Manila is cleaned up,
01:31artillery opens up on South Manila
01:33across the Pesig River
01:35where Japs are dug in for a last-ditch stand.
01:41Big guns go into action.
01:48Alert riflemen, man every window,
01:51watching for fleeing Japs.
01:52Here are two who didn't flee far.
01:54Watch.
01:58Another is cut down.
02:00Day after day, the street fighting rages
02:02with the Japs holding the edge in marksmanship
02:05as Jap demilition squads
02:06systematically destroy the city
02:08and the Pesig bridges.
02:10The attack on Southern Manila
02:12is made with assault boats.
02:14Under heavy Jap fire,
02:15the final and bitterest phase
02:17of the city's capture is underway.
02:25The Japs put up their fiercest resistance
02:27in the southern part of the city,
02:29destroying and hiding out in snipers' nests,
02:31preferring to die rather than retreat,
02:34and flamethrowers burn them out.
02:48The battle-scarred post office building
02:51is taken by our men,
02:52and the American flag flies above the wounded.
03:06The seriously wounded are born to the city hall,
03:09where a temporary hospital has been set up.
03:12Jap snipers fire on the litter bearers.
03:21Red Cross blood plasma is administered under fire.
03:25Red Cross blood plasma is administered under fire.
03:32Now big guns pour death into the Intramuros section,
03:36where the Japs make a last bitter stand.
03:48Under this terrific barrage,
03:50the infantrymen go forward cautiously,
03:52hugging the walls of buildings
03:53and running across open areas.
03:55The Intramuros district is surrounded by 30-foot-thick walls,
03:59and for the infantry to enter,
04:01the walls must be breached by big guns.
04:11An entrance gained,
04:13the men pour into the ancient settlement.
04:19Here, too, the Jap goes underground,
04:21and riflemen, as well as flamethrowers,
04:24silence the snipers.
04:25Sometimes they're blasted out.
04:34This Jap is still breathing,
04:36one of the few to be found alive.
04:39Thousands of Japs were wiped out in Intramuros alone.
04:41This is the end of the fighting for Manila,
04:44a battle that has left the great city
04:46with painful, unforgettable memories.
04:56With the battle over,
04:57the Paisic River,
04:58natural barrier between North and South Manila,
05:01is bridged by the Yanks.
05:02The Philippine capital,
05:04free at last of Jap occupation,
05:06but ravaged and gutted by the enemy
05:08as a last resort,
05:09is returned to the Filipinos.
05:19Civilians forced to stay within Intramuros
05:21to shield the Japs from Yank artillery fire
05:24are sent to the rear by the liberating troops.
05:29The anointment in aussie
05:29for the fleet of Americans
05:29or for thecia � trovators.
05:30The top of Paramount
