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Japan exploits human and material resources in occupied Asian countries of its Empire, to support its war effort against the Allies (WW2)
A solitary Japanese Army sentry walks his post along a seawall in a coastal area under Japanese military control in World War II. Local people go about their daily activities in a city under Japanese administration. A Japanese military policeman, wearing a white armband, directs traffic. A Japanese Army officer converses with another Japanese military policeman. A passenger speeds past them in a rickshaw. A Japanese military officer waves a loaded truck onward. Japanese replace old buildings and install new communication lines in a city. Japanese military engineers survey and Japanese troops build lines of communication, including a railroad bridge. Japanese officials scrutinize credentials of people at a checkpoint. A Japanese soldier searches a man. People are waved through a checkpoint after their credentials are reviewed. Workers in a textile plant. Laborers at construction sites use carrying poles to transport materials. Other laborers carrying sacks of material on their backs, as they unload a barge at a waterfront. Glimpse of a Japanese controlled harbor.
Allied planning for the final invasion of Japan in World War II
Scene opens with a map illustrating one possible Allied path for invasion of Japan. It proceeds from India and Burma to China and thence to Japan. A U.S. B-24 bomber is seen landing at a Far East Air field. Next, the Supreme Allied Commander of South-East Command (SEAC) Admiral Lord Mountbatten, is seen posing with Chinese General Li Zongren (AKA Li Tsung-jen) and other high ranking Chinese officers, and then walking with them. Next are views of U.S. General Joseph Stillwell working with staff as they consult maps. Then, Chinese laborers are seen engaged in construction of a bridge over a riverbed, that is to be part of the "Ledo Road,"traversing Burma and providing a highway from India to Chunking, China. Trucks moving over the already completed segments of the road, carry men and war materiel. One truck passes a local native drawing water from a well using a long counterbalanced pole. At the frontier of the roadbuilding, Chinese soldiers chop their way through dense jungles and battle Japanese forces firing at them. A fallen soldier. Allied soldiers shouting as run into a village engaging Japanese forces. Structures in the village burning and spreading in the area. Scene shifts abruptly to an animated map illustrating what are believed to be the Japanese plan for its last desparate defense. It shows them falling back to highly defensible boundaries encompassing sources of supplies needed to sustain their defense. Aerial views of Manchurian landscape. Japanese officials are seen at their administrative offices in Manchuria. Large numbers of Manchurian workers are seen headed to work near a factory. Others are engaged in open pit mining, where explosives are used to expose and ready ores for extraction. Views inside a Manchurian steel plant supporting the Japanese war effort. Japanese military forces are shown moving by horseback in the area, ostensibly to push further into China and add more protection against potential Allied offensives. Likewise, Japanese warships are shown at sea maneuvering to defensive locations. This is all summed up in a map showing the expected disposition and status of military defensives for Japan's final defense (Fortress Japan). Street traffic on a city street in Japan. A large group of Japanese women in traditional dress, carry banners and quietly bow. View of the Japanese Diet Building (Parliament) and political and Military leaders inside, including Prime Minister Tojo, Hideki.
Allied troops land at and advance into Philippines
United States B -17 bombers drop bombs over Japanese positions and General Douglas MacArthur returns to Philippines. Allied troops engage in jungle warfare. They walk across marshy and muddy areas. Naval battle against the Japanese. A Japanese plane shot down by Allies. Admiral Charles Nimitz, Admiral Thomas KinKaid and Admiral Hasley. (World War II period).
Several U.S. Navy warships are seen underway in the China Sea during World War 2
United States Navy carrier underway in the China Sea during World War II. Planes on the deck of a carrier and one of them takes off. Japanese planes and installations on ground strafe. A Japanese ship strafes and burns. Plane lands back on the carrier.
United States Navy warships underway in the China Sea during World War 2
Reconnaissance photographs removed from an aircraft on board United States Navy carrier underway in the China Sea during World War II. Officers analyze the photographs. Ships in the rough sea as waves crash over the flight deck. Aircrafts take off from carrier in typhoons. Oil refineries bombed in Saigon, Vietnam as smoke rises from them. Japanese warships and ammunition ship burn after blow up. Plane makes a crash landing on board a carrier.
U.S. 1st Cavalry Division soldiers move to invade Los Negros in the South West Pacific during World War II.
An orientation film about the American campaign against the Japanese in the South West Pacific during World War II. A U.S. Army intelligence officer reads a document as he studies American strategy to attack Japanese positions on the Admiralty Island in the South West Pacific. An officer at a map of Los Negros. Aerial views of the island. An aircraft lands on sea and soldiers in rubber rafts move towards the island. Soldiers reconnoiter the island. An officer at a map and he makes a phone call to confirm the strategy to be followed for the attack in the South West Pacific. Nearly 800 soldiers of 1st Cavalry Division assemble for the attack. They embark onto Higgins boat at a beach and pull away. The soldiers get aboard a ship at sea. A convoy of U.S. ships underway to invade Los Negros. Officers aboard the ship confer. Naval guns being fired at the coast of Los Negros. Aircraft in flight as they provide an aerial cover. The soldiers get into landing crafts from a ship. The aircraft in flight.
