U.S. Strategic bombing survey film about the situation in Japan after atomic bombing during World War 2. Truckload of scientists arrive at a shrine in Hiroshima. Scientists study the damage and displacement of the monument and they take notes. AI-OI bridge. Damaged Motoyasu bridge. Pavement stones on either side of the bridge, displaced in opposite directions. Bomb damage all over the city. Damaged Motoyasu bridge.
U.S. Strategic bombing survey film about the situation in Japan after nuclear bombing. Physical science report on Hiroshima. Film titled 'Radioactivity'. Aerial view of fields. Damage in Hiroshima. Buildings damaged by the blast, damaged sidewalk, and destroyed trees and vegetations. Scientists walk through rubble, one stops and picks up some debris for tests. Animation shows places from where samples are collected. Man mixes the dirt to be examined. Sample passes through rays. Bone powder examined for radioactivity. Sulfur data demonstrated. Observed place map. Scientists examine the debris. Graph of intensity measurement in time line. Scientists study the damage. Statistics of the damage. (World War II period).
Bomb damaged cities of Japan. Ruins in Nagasaki, attacked with an atomic bomb three days after Hiroshima. City of Osaka destroyed by conventional aerial bombardment. Fleet of ships in water at Kure. (World War II period).
Bomb damaged cities of Japan during World War II. Aerial view of Tokyo. People in the damaged city of Tokyo. Ruins on ground. Damaged buildings. American planes fly over the Japanese Imperial Palace. People bow and pray in the garden. Group of happy, freed U.S. prisoners at the liberated Ofuna Japanese prisoner of war camp. Japanese prison guards bow as former prisoners leave in truck.
The battle of Iwo Jima, Japan during World War II. Wounded marine being assisted. Marine tank driver being assisted back to the first aid station by infantrymen. Trees in the the background. Caliber machine gun emplacement.
After World War 2, Japanese people in post-war, poverty stricken Japan scavenge for resources and food amidst shortages and rationing. In Tokyo: Japanese children work in ruins of a bath house near a group of miner's houses in the Higashi Misome Mine area. Children working to pick up pieces of tile which they have loosened with a hammer and an iron bar. Two children's hands seen working with a hammer and a tile. Two boys in a wrecked bath tub chiseling a tile. Two boys and girls search the debris of the bath house. In Osaka : Japanese women, men and children scrape up corn kernels off a road, which have been spilled there from a passing truck.