A Japanese boy studies his textbook at home, during.World War 2 A Japanese schoolboy recites while standing up in class. Japanese actors dressed as samurais reenact sword battles. Japanese schoolboys play war games using toy rifles. Boys push toy artillery during a war game. Japanese boy cranks toy artillery to simulate firing. Japanese boys wear paper airplanes while playing as bombers. A Japanese girl gently opens a sliding door. Two Japanese girls bow to each other. A little girl learns to carry a plate. A Japanese woman teaches a little girl how to play a shamisen. Japanese girl plays the shamisen. Japanese teenage girls and boys perform mass calisthenics. Japanese high school students climb a Jacob’s Ladder and do various tasks onboard a ship during a naval training. Boys and girls march on field. They wave flags and sing.
United States Navy planes strafing enemy held beach installations. Bombing on targets in Tokyo. Gun camera footage of aircraft firing at a moving train. Engine of the train is hit. Strafing of Marshaling yard. Rockets fired at building below. Heavy smoke rising up after strafing. View of a busy thoroughfare, densely populated area and waterfront. Low barrack type building seen.
USS Crosley rescued 45 Japanese survivors. United States officer meets Japanese official during the reunion ceremony. United States Naval Officers open their shoes and pray in traditional Japanese way. Japanese priest performs ceremony inside a temple. Japanese civilians aboard the ship. Children eat and drink.
Project Japanese evacuation. A miniature Japanese pagoda. A Japanese man carries flowers and walks in a flower garden. A van with 'Lyon' written drives on the roads.
April 1, 1946: “Operation “Road’s End.” View from the Destroyer, USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830) as it accompanies Imperial Japanese Navy submarines headed out of Sasebo Bay, headed to "Point Deep Six," (reportedly about 60 km west of Nagasaki and off the Gotō Islands) where they are to be scuttled by demolition charges and/or gunfire from the Larson or the USS Nereus (AS-17) (not seen). Captain Bell and Commander D.A. Mckee are seen on deck of the Larson with a Japanese interpreter who is issuing instructions to the skeleton Japanese crews through a megaphone. Views of the submarines underway.
Various Japanese ships hit by United States cruisers during Operation Road's End after WWII. Smoke and fire rising from the targeted ships. View of Japanese ships sinking.
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