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U.S. Marines using flame throwers against Japanese, Chinese troops during Sino-Japanese War, aftermath mass suicide of Japanese

A film titled 'The San Jose Project' gives an introduction of chemical warfare tests carried out by U.S. Army on San Jose Island, Panama during World War II. Film opens with scenes of U.S. troops battling Japanese on Pacific islands during World War II. Tank mounted flamethrower being used to burn Japanese from caves. Backpack style handheld flamethrower being used by U.S. Marine at mouth of a cave. A Japanese soldier emerges from a cave and is shot by American soldiers. Scene changes to China, where Chinese troops march near fields during the Sino-Japanese War before World War II. A wounded soldier carried by Chinese troops. Scene changes again to Mariana Islands during World War 2. Piles of bodies of Japanese civilians and soldiers at base of a cliff from which they jumped to commit suicide rather than be captured or killed by American forces. A Japanese civilian jumping off of a cliff. Japanese civilians at waters edge jumping into water.

Location: China
Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060513
Vapor effects of persistent gas munitions are examined during various U.S. chemical warfare tests in San Jose Island, Panama.

Tests of persistent gas munitions during U.S. chemical warfare tests on San Jose Island, Panama during World War II. Chemical warfare tests shows U.S. troops firing 4.2 inch mortars and 105mm howitzers laying down a mustard gas barrage. Smoke rises from shell fire in the jungle. A technician examines a bombed area in the jungle. Vapor effects of persistent gas munitions are examined. Bodies of captured Japanese soldiers who were in the bombardment area are examined within three hours of the bombardment. U.S. troops without any protective clothing advance through the jungle area 48 hours after the bombardment. The troops fire mortars and howitzers.

Location: San Jose Island Panama
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060520
Phosgene and CK gases are tested during U.S. chemical warfare tests on San Jose Island, Panama during World War II.

Tests of non-persistent gas munitions during U.S. chemical warfare tests on San Jose Island, Panama during World War II. U.S. troops advance in a jungle during a simulated chemical warfare. Bombs stacked in a munitions dump. The bombs are loaded on bomber aircraft. Japanese canisters on which Phosgene and CK gases are to be tested. Technicians use gas concentration recording instruments made by U.S. NDRC (National Defense Research Committee). Phosgene and CK gases are tested on goats, mechanical breathers and U.S. and Japanese canisters. CK gas breaks a canister. Gas testing shows bomb blasts in the jungle.

Location: San Jose Island Panama
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060521
Phosgene and CK gas tests are made by dropping bombs from U.S. 6th Air Force B-24s on San Jose Island, Panama.

Tests of non-persistent gas munitions during U.S. chemical warfare tests on San Jose Island, Panama during World War II. Bombs are loaded on U.S. 6th Air Force B-24 Liberator bombers. The B-24s take off from a runway. A formation of B-24s in the sky. Phosgene and CK gas tests are made by dropping bombs from the B-24s. Results are plotted on maps and studied by U.S. personnel in a room.

Location: San Jose Island Panama
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060522
Goats wearing Japanese canisters are used to test the effect of Phosgene and CK gas bombs in San Jose Island, Panama.

Tests of non-persistent gas munitions during U.S. chemical warfare tests on San Jose Island, Panama during World War II. Goats wearing Japanese canisters are used to test the effect of Phosgene and CK bombs. All unprotected goats are killed. A goat is placed in a gas proof dugout. A man wearing protective clothing drags out the dead goat from the dugout. U.S. troops make CK bomb tests and fire mortars. Bombardment at night during the rainy season. A soldier examines the result.

Location: San Jose Island Panama
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060523
An animated representation of U.S. chemical warfare by making CK gas tests over test animals on San Jose Island, Panama.

Tests of non-persistent gas munitions during U.S. chemical warfare tests on San Jose Island, Panama during World War II. An animated chart depicts an impact area over which sampling instruments and test animals are placed on artillery squares for CK gas tests. The chart shows canister breaking concentration being set up on artillery squares.

Location: San Jose Island Panama
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060524
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