Japanese immigration camps in Manchuria, China. Sheep enter corrals. A Japanese boy herding sheep. A Japanese colonist- woman hanging clothes outside her house. A Japanese woman uses a spinning wheel. Another Japanese woman fetches water from a well using a wheel.
Japanese bombing attack on Chungking (Chongqing), China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Population evacuates seeking safety outside the city. Soldiers hide behind a rock. Chinese volunteer soldiers include women. Chinese Guerilla force. Soldiers move field guns and fire them.
Chinese civilians indulge in household work in China. A mountain valley in China. Small houses in the valley and on the foot of the mountains. Children play with three pigs in front of a house. A man separates grain. Women spins while children sit along with them. Many homes,called "Yaodongs"are created from hollowing out the sides of the mountains.
U.S. Navy Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell is interviewed in Guam. Dramatization: U.S. Navy Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell speaks. He talks about Japanese invasion in China when the war was on in Europe. He states that the war caused destruction, starvation, diseases and rendered many Chinese homeless. Media persons take notes during the interview.
Initiations rites commemorating sailors' first crossing of the equator( Shellback initiation) being held aboard the USS Marblehead CL-12 off the French Indo-China coast. U.S. Navy sailors dressed in aviator uniforms look through their binoculars standing at the bow of the cruiser. The shellbacks ( sailors who have crossed equator), many dressed in costumes, beat up the stripped pollywogs (sailor's who haven't crossed equator) with wet boards and ropes. Scenes of the stern section of the USS Marblehead. Pollywog sailors pushed into tank of water and black oil. Initiation rite being performed on the deck. Sailors pretend to cut a pollywog with a saw and then let him go as he moves through the initiation rites.
Distant mountain range and clouded skyline as seen from the deck of USS Marblehead CL-12 sailing off the French Indo-China coast. A U.S. Navy sailor dressed in a robe poses for camera .View of the stern of the cruiser.Several vessels underway at a distance.