Epic Pictures of World War II,
Castle Films, 1945

Group 3 - Pictures 13 through 18

13. SINGAPORE SURRENDERS The Japanese. swiftly exploiting successes in Malaya. lay siege to the British bose at Singapore and on February 15. Lieutenant General Percival surrenders the British sea-gate of empire in the Far East to General Tomoyuki Yamashita. A captured lap photograph shows British officers under escort to Yamashit&s headquarters.

14. U. S. FLIERS ATTACK WAKE A fighter plane from an aircraft carrier is seen in the first American naval blow struck against the Japs after their capture of Wake Island.

15. SURRENDER OF BATAAN On May 6, 1942. after an epic of American and Philipino heroism on the island of Luzon in the desperate struggle to hold Bataan and Corregidor. Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright is forced to surrender to the Japanese Army. A captured Jap photograph shows American troops starting on the brutal march to prison camps.

16. DOOLITTLE’S RAID ON TOKYO (Apr. 1942) On April 18, 1942. the aircraft carrier Hornet steams boldly into Japanese waters to launch Brigadier General James Doo. little’s twenty-four medium bomhers bound for Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka and Robe. Psychologically, this first bombing of Japanese cities is devastating. General Doolittle is seen attaching medals presented to him by Japan to one of the bombs intended for Tokyo.

17. CARRIER “WASP” HIT OFF GUADALCANAL In August 1942, the United States Marines land on Guadalcanal in the Solomons. and while guarding a convoy to the island, the aircraft carrier Wasp is stalked by a Japanese submarine and hit by three torpedoes. She sinks soon after survivors are removed.

18. BATTLE OF SANTA CRUZ On October 26, 1942, an American carrier task force fights a Japanese squadron over a hundred and fifty miles of ocean, claiming only hits on enemy carriers, battleships and cruisers. The American carrier Hornet and the destroyer Porter are lost in the action.

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