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United States-trained Nationalist Chinese soldiers are deloused with DDT insecticide before departure from Shanghai for Manchuria after the end of WW2.
Opening slate “U.S. Moves Chinese Troops”. In Shanghai, American Navy Personnel spray insecticide, probably DDT, on Nationalist Chinese soldiers using hand pumps after World War II, probably as a delousing measure. The DDT insecticide powder is sprayed into the uniforms and heads of the soldiers. The 26,000 Nationalist Chinese soldiers, part of the United States-trained Nationalist Sixth Army, are mostly bald. Chinese soldier carries supplies in his shoulder and a puppy left arm. 26,000 Chinese Nationalist soldiers, carrying equipment, are led to ships heading to Manchuria to deter Soviet invasion.
Sailors polish brass, visit of Dr. Weiching Williams Yen, former Premier of the Republic of China, onboard HMS Swiftsure in Shanghai, China
British Royal Navy sailors point to brass sign on the HMS Swiftsure while docking in Shanghai, China. Brass letters reading “SWIFTSURE”. View of HMS Swiftsure with British Navy flag. British Royal Navy sailor polish the brass letters “SWIFTSURE”. British Royal Navy officers salute as British Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser greets Dr. Weiching Williams Yen (also known as Yan Huiqing), former Premier of the Republic of China and the first Chinese ambassador to the Soviet Union, onboard the HMS Swiftsure. Dr. Weiching Williams Yen socializes with Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser and another British Navy officer. Dr. Weiching Williams Yen poses with Admiral Sir Fraser and unnamed British Navy officer. Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser speaks with Times correspondent, Waldo Drake, onboard.
Japanese Imperial Army soldiers enter and bomb Shanghai, China
Japanese 9th Division regular army troops marching outside a compound in Shanghai, China. Soldiers with bayonets sit on top of a moving truck. Soldiers hold a Japanese flag while sitting on top of supplies from a moving truck. Japanese soldiers cross the Huangpu Creek bridge. Soldiers with bayonets marching in the International Settlement of Shanghai. Kenkichi Ueda, Commander in Chief of the Japanese Imperial Army standing in front of a barracks. General Ueda and soldiers enter the barracks together. Soldiers firing artillery at Shanghai. Shanghai being bombarded. Japanese gunners pull artillery back into place with ropes after recoil drives cannon backwards. An artillery fires more shells. A burning house. Japanese soldier riding a motorcycle with sidecar. A Japanese soldier uses a pair of binoculars. Thick smoke forms over Shanghai. Japanese soldiers running in Shanghai. Soldiers running past a tank. Type 87 Model 25 Vickers Crossley "Dowa" armored car equipped with two Vickers 303 machine guns moving down street. Inside view of Type 87 Model 25 armored car. Japanese soldiers firing with machine guns next Type 87 Model 25. A dead Chinese man lying on the snow. Japanese soldiers firing with machine guns beside a tank. Japanese soldiers standing on a bridge. Japanese soldiers capture Chinese spies dressed as women and farmers. Two Japanese soldiers support an injured comrade. Chinese captives kneeling beside Japanese soldiers at train depot. Chinese refugees leaving Shanghai on foot. Chinese locals stand on boats sailing out of Shanghai. Panicking crowds leaving Shanghai en masse.
Beginnings of the Second Sino-Japanese war
Sign over American Embassy in China. Colonel William Mayer, former military attache in that embassy relates events precipitating Second Sino-Japanese war. Scenes of the Marco Polo bridge near Peking, on night of July 7, 1937, as Japanese artillery bombards the area. Animated map shows movement of Japanese forces out of Manchuria to occupy Peiping and Tientsin. Victorious Japanese troops stand atop a building, raising their flags and shouting cries of victory. Japanese army officers sit around a table smiling and contended and others walk in a group. Chinese artillery crews are seen retaliating as they fire field pieces at Japanese positions in Shanghai. Shells explode in background, and Chinese infantry advance through damaged buildings and rubble. Animated map shows Shanghai and other cities, and film transitions to view of the bustling city of Shanghai on the Yangtze River. In the seaport, large ocean liners and freighters, as well as tug boats and Junks, are seen. What looks like a Japanese Tachikawa Ki.54 Type 1 transport plane takes off over a Chinese pagoda. Double-decker buses travel through the streets. Rickshaws are also seen. Map outlines the foreign residential areas of the French Concession and the International Settlement. American, British and Japanese flags are shown in the International Settlement. Detachments of troops from Japan, Britain, France, and United States Marines are seen. A U.S. Marine is posted as a sentry at the Shanghai Power Company. Coolies carry heavy bucket on a long pole. British, French and Japanese troops also performed sentry duties. Japanese troops and armored cars are seen. A scuffle breaks out in August, 1937, and Japanese soldiers start moving in trucks, take up firing positions, and begin firing guns from their armored cars. Map shows Chinese counterattack pushing the Japanese contingent toward the Khangpoo River. Next it shows Japanese warships and reinforcements in the Yangtze River and their advance toward Woosung and Shanghai. Views of Japanese warships bombarding the shore and large explosions from their striking shells. Beachhead is shown South of Shanghai, where two divisions of Japanese infantry are seen arriving in landing craft. They advance across the fields toward Shanghai. Map shows Chinese withdrawals to West and South, toward Nanking and Hangchow. Chinese medics along with infantry march in retreat. Japanese pilots are seen being briefed. Next, Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are seen in flight, and bombardiers and other crew in them. Bombs falling on the city. Civilians running for cover as bombs explode. Aichi D3A1 aircraft dropping bombs. The Shanghai waterfront being bombed and civilians running.
House-building machine 'Tournalayer' lays the frame work and pours the concrete, Longview.
'Tournalayer ', a house-building machine in operation in Shanghai. Machine lays the framework and pours the concrete. Workers shovel. Man demonstrates how machine works. Crowd gathered outside house. Pipes laid on floor in house before concrete is poured. Couple enters the house. Furnishings in house.
Effects of incendiary bomb attacks in Kobe, Japan during World War II shows two and three-story fire gutted brick buildings.
A survey of the damage inflicted upon Kobe, Japan during World War II. Small machines in the rubble. South of streetcar tracks in third square west of Hong Kong Shanghai Bank is a stone grotto in the rubble and destroyed brick buildings. The east face of a three-story concrete school in Eizawocho. The building shows the effects of fire on the concrete wall. The south face of a two-story building gutted by the fire. Front columns of a building heavily chipped by the fire. A two story building gutted by fire which affected a closed metal shutter.
