Night bombing of Sendai, Japan during World War II. Aerial views of explosion and fires in the city.
The film 'Two Down and One to Go' talks about the activities of the Axis powers Italy, Germany and Japan during World War II. United States Secretary of War Henry Lewis Stimson at a desk. Animation shows a swastika being exploded over Germany. Caricatures of the late Duce of the Italian Social Republic Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, the late Chancellor of Germany Adolf Hitler and Hideki Tojo. A cross being superimposed on the two dictators. The head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Pius XII blesses the crowds in St. Peter's Square. 1st Military Governor of the American Occupation Zone in Germany Dwight David Eisenhower, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin display festive moods in separate events. People cheer.
A U.S. naval Task Force, carrying troops and equipment in the Pacific, during World War 2. Infantry fill the deck of a transport ship. Closeup of some. A Benham class destroyer nearby. Closeup of the USS Buchanan (DD-484), a Gleaves-class destroyer, in camouflage, as it steams past the camera ship. Closeup of a Douglas SBD Dauntless aircraft taking off from an aircraft carrier. A Navy Grumman F4F Wildcat airplane with engine running on a carrier deck. Another Douglas Dauntless plane taking off from a carrier. American aircraft circling to land on a carrier. Two Independence class light aircraft carriers underway. A Douglas Dauntless aircraft taking off from a carrier, as another is seen aloft in the background. Repeated earlier view of Grumman F4F on a carrier. A U.S. Colorado class battleship raising a large bow wave as it heads toward the camera ship. A Baltimore class heavy cruiser underway. Task force planning taking place aboard warships. Iowa class fast battleship. Alarm sounds aboard a warship and sailors respond to battle stations. Grumman TBF torpedo bomber aircraft take off from a U.S. Aircraft Carrier, and are seen later flying in formation. Gun camera footage from U.S. aircraft strafing Japanese warplanes parked on airfields and strafing Japanese supply ships. (One explodes). Gun camera footage from U.S. planes attacking Japanese ships and boats.
Victory over Japan Day (V-J Day) celebrations at Lafayette Park (Pennsylvania Ave NW &, 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20001, United States) in Washington DC, United States during World War II. Spectators in groups standing and sitting in parks and along the streets. A man sitting on bench reads a newspaper. Soldiers and sailors in groups. Two soldiers sit on the grass. Two officers talk with civilians. Spectators are gathered in Lafayette Square across from the White House.
Victory over Japan Day (V-J Day) celebrations at Lafayette Park (Pennsylvania Ave NW &, 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20001, United States) in Washington DC, United States during World War II. Civilians walk down the sidewalk. Some of the civilians stand on the sidewalk. Soldiers near a vehicle. People sitting in a garden. Cars parked in the background. People sit near the statue of Lieutenant General Comte de Rochambeau. A man and a woman sitting. People gathered in Lafayette Park.
Victory over Japan Day (V-J Day) celebrations at Lafayette Park in Washington DC, United States during World War II. A civilian walks down a sidewalk reading a newspaper. Two army officers walk down a sidewalk in the park. Newspaper headlines 'Japanese Offer to surrender-Mikado can remain'. People read the headlines in the park. Civilians talk and read in the park. Two Japanese Americans read a newspaper. A civilian reads a newspaper. People stand and talk.
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