Senior Japanese Naval Officers make inspection visit on a warship. Japanese warships underway at sea. A Japanese destroyer. Numerous Japanese warships with several formations of Naval aircraft overhead. A loose formation of Kawanishi H6K Naval flying boats in flight. Japanese light and medium tanks on parade, including Type 95 Ha-Go tanks (some with offset turrets). Many tanks cross a field. In Japan, Emperor Hirohito, riding a white horse, reviews Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tanks as their crews stand at attention. Tanks create clouds of dust as they move on a road and a field. Japanese infantry soldiers march in review past Emperor Hirohito on his white horse. Large formation of Japanese infantry marching. High-stepping Japanese infantry compared to Italian infantry goosestepping. Benito Mussolini speaking to Italians from his balcony on the Palazzo Venezia of Rome on November 4th, 1938. Numerous Italian Army SPAD XIII biplanes parked in a large field. Ethiopia's Emperor, Haile Selassie, speaks from a shelter and invokes tribesmen fight invasion by Italian forces. Tribesmen are in tribal dress, armed with spears and ancient rifles, as they rally to their Emperor. Italian L3 light tanks being used in the Ethiopian campaign. Contingent of Italian cavalry charging and infantry advancing. Italian Caproni Ca.111bis light bomber in flight. Bombs falling. Italian artillery firing and shells striking a hilltop fortress. Japanese attendees waving Japanese flags in a large stadium in Italy. A Japanese statesman reading a speech in Japanese. Most of the stadium is filled with Italians. "Saluti" is written at the section occupied by Japanese attendees. An Italian spokesman welcomes the Japanese participants. A Japanese translator is beside him. Japanese cheer as they hear the translated greeting.
Bow view of Allied destroyer plunging through seas during World War 2. A supply ship sinking in the Atlantic. A lifeboat filled with survivors from a sunken ship. A freighter with stern in the air as she sinks. Survivors in the water and on a lifeboat. French troops deploying into the Maginot Line. They ride narrow gauge subway cars inside the fortress complex. View of Copenhagen, Denmark. German troops marching into Denmark. Smoke rising from bombed areas of Norway. Norwegians watch from sidewalk as German troops march into their city. Fires burning at night in Norway. German self-propelled heavy guns during invasion of Holland and Belgium, on May 9, 1940. They are followed by numerous Panzer II tanks. German trucks and motorized weapons moving through the low countries and from behind, past dragon's teeth antitank barriers, of the Maginot Line. German soldiers with machine guns aboard a train headed toward France. German troops destroying border barriers as they proceed through Holland, Belgium, and Luxembourg. They pass a large windmill. German motorcycle troops. A formation of German single-engine twin-tailed aircraft in flight overhead. (possibly early versions of Ju-87?)
Nazi invasion of lowland countries of Europe during World War II. Fleet of German aircraft in flight. Paratroopers descend from sky. Germany's invasion of Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg. The Dutch and Belgians defend their territories. Troops advance in fields on foot and tank. Allied forces rush to their aid on land, sea and air.
United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt sails on Astor's Yacht, Nourmahal for 10 days vacation at sea in Jacksonville, Florida. President Roosevelt with his son and other officials aboard the yacht. He waves his hat to the crowd. Ascot Yacht sails away from the harbor for a trip to the Bahamas.
Strafing and bombing on Hopoi, New Guinea. Three planes near a coast line. The ocean and coastline below. Planes in flight. Ships at sea. Barges with Australia's 9th Division. The coastline and landscape. Smoke in the background. Ships near the coast. Views of the landscape. (World War II period).
A Grumman F4F, Wildcat, from the U.S. Navy Squadron, VF-5, lands on the flight deck of the USS Saratoga (CV-3) and runs off the end of the flight deck, crashing into a parked airplane and falling into the sea, during operations against the Japanese in the Pacific.
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