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Views of Japan and its militarism from 1937 through 1943 . Construction of B-29 bombers in the United States

Volcanic eruption and creation of island of Japan. Glimpse of map of Japan. Gardens and rivers. Two men demonstrate samurai sword techniques. Japanese soldiers advance through smoke carrying rising sun flag. Chinese suffering under Japanese military occupation. Two executed with rifles. Japanese soldiers waving weapons and red ball flags. A DC-3 aircraft flying over a Japanese Pagoda. Vies of Old Japan. Farmers at work. One manually turning a water pump with his feet. A man using a pole to propel a boat. Modern methods adopted in Japan for terraced farming. Japanese building railroads. Japanese modern locomotive on South Manchurian Railway. in 1934. A Japanese twin engine bomber taking off. The Japanese ocean liner, Asama Maru, in the 1930s. Glimpse of numerous ships in Tokyo harbor. Western style architecture in modern Tokyo buildings. Neon lights on the Grand Palace Hotel and other establishments in Tokyo. Industrial smoke stacks. Women at work in a silk factory. Finished product stamped "Made in Japan."Steel ingots being made in a Japanese steel mill using scrap iron imported from the U.S.A. Chinese victims of 2nd Sino-Japanese War. Japanese troops on parade. Dead American Marines on shore of Tarawa Atoll in the Pacific in World War 2, killed in battle. Japanese high ranking officers reviewing troops on parade. Japanese warships underway. Troops parading beneath the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. American B-25 bombers on flight deck of the USS Hornet, headed to bomb Tokyo.A crew of Doolittle's Raiders standing by their plane. B-25 taking off from the Hornet. Formation of B-25s in flight. View from bomber of smoke rising from bombing of Tokyo below. Brigadier General Jimmie Doolittle pledging to repeat bombing of Tokyo. Supply train entering a Boeing Company defense plant. United States war production workers being scrutinized as they enter the facility and punching in at a time clock. Poster in the plant picturing a B-29 bomber aircraft on a message in German describing it as an instrument for a "Destruction Battle against the Luftwaffe." Bold letters, above, in English read: "They're Promised-Let's Deliver 'em!" And, below, the words: "B-29, Super Bombers." Slabs of aluminum sheets fill a factory room. Overhead traveling cranes move them. Workers in airplane manufacturing and assembly plant use heat and brakes to shape the aluminum sheets. Multiple views of the aluminum being machined and stamped to specifications. Wings being fabricated. Relatively unskilled labor using jigs to perform the work. Woman war worker operating an overhead crane moving a wing in the plant. Views of plane parts moving across the ceiling via cranes. Women workers driving rivets into wings. Men and women employees working inside fuel fuel compartments of wings. A floor full of engine nacelles. A floor full of 2200 HP radial engines. A skeleton nose section being fabricated. Midsections and bomb bays being assembled. Workers crawling through the airframe during aircraft assembly. A woman working on a connecting tunnel. Sub-assemblies made by contractors arriving at the plant. More views of Boeing employees including young, old, men, and women, at work in the plant.

Date: 1944
Duration: 11 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046523
United States Army Air Force Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft of the 339th Fighter Squadron in flight formation during WW2

A fleet of Fighter-Bomber aircraft (Lockheed P-38 Lightning) of the United States Army Air Force in flight over the South Pacific Ocean during World War II. The 339th Fighter Squadron of the United States Army Air Force intercepted and shot down Imperial Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in 1943. Three Lockheed P-38 Lightning fly together. One by one, the three aircraft tilt to the right downward. A fleet of Lockheed P-38 Lightning flying in formation near the clouds as seen from an aircraft’s side window. Three Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft went up to a higher altitude vertically in unison.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078982
U.S. 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron personnel wash and dry prints of photographs in South Pacific.

U.S. 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron in the South Pacific during World War II. Prints on Rabaul negative being washed. A soldier puts the negatives in containers. A personnel dries the prints as he places them on machine. Machine gives out dried prints A sign on a door reads 'Printing'. Negatives brought to a dryer from the developing room. Men dry negative roll. A man rubs on either side of the negatives. June 4th, 1943: A soldier sleeps as others chat.

Date: 1943, May 11
Duration: 3 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059599
United States Army Air Force 339th Fighter Squadron Pilots in the South Pacific preparing for take-off during WW2.

The United States Army Air Force pilots of the 339th Fighter Squadron, who intercepted and shot down Imperial Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in 1943 during World War II. Captain Tom Lanphier, is seated under an aircraft, cleaning his goggles. View of Captain Lanphier, smiling. Another United States Army Air Force Pilot, Lieutenant Rex T. Barber, wearing helmet and goggles, adjusts his straps. Another pilot, Lieutenant Besby Holmes, leaning his back on an aircraft, adjusts his helmet and laughs. Lieutenant Douglas S. Canning puts on a life vest and smiles. Lieutenant Delton Goerke chews and smiles as he looks at the camera. Lieutenant Julius Jacobson adjusts his helmet and smiles. Pilot in cockpit gives an “OK” hand gesture facing the camera before closing the cockpit canopy. Another pilot salutes facing the camera before closing his cockpit canopy.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078985
German sailors visit island in the South Pacific (WW2)

German Nazi Kriegsmarine navy land on an island in the South Pacific Ocean, likely Fiji, during World War II. Sailors lower supplies to boats. Sailors in boats travel to an island. Kriegsmarine sailors arrive on a South Pacific island. Huts and coconut trees on an island village. Local islanders standing on a raft. Germans bring supplies into the village, while being observed by curious locals and children. Children stand up and follow Kriegsmarine officers. A Pacific islander smiling, nearby a woman holds her baby. German officers and a local smiling while they walk through a coconut grove. Two local policemen salute. German Kriegsmarine sailor attempts to communicate with locals through sign language. German sailor plays with native children on the beach. A smiling native policeman waves. A German Kriegsmarine battleship sails in the South Pacific Ocean, led by a sea gull. Battleship's wind meter spins furiously in the wind as battleship sails through rough and stormy ocean waves. Kriegsmarine officer uses binoculars.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675079109
A Japanese aircraft drops bombs on the flight deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier in the South Pacific Ocean during World War II.

Japanese attack on a United States Navy aircraft carrier in the South Pacific Ocaen during World War II. Flakes burst as guns fire. A Japanese aircraft in flight attacks an aircraft carrier of the U.S. Navy. Smoke rises from the deck. A bomb being dropped on the deck and an explosion occurs. Damage control crew rushes on the deck and man hoses to extinguish the fire. A damaged aircraft hoisted alongside the ship. An airplane dropped in the sea. Temporary repairs done on the deck. Shattered interiors of the ship as a result of Japanese bombing. Allied sailors lined up the deck of a ship underway at sea. An Allied naval commander arrives. He decorates the sailors.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066010
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