Factory workers separate a small mobile hand pump for fire fighting under the direction of Metropolitan Tokyo fire department in Tokyo, Japan. Women operate the hand pump. Japanese fireman of the Tokyo fire department. Japanese fire fighter talks to the chief. Scenes are from soon after the end of World War 2.
Japanese fire fighters connect the hose to the fire hydrant in Tokyo, Japan. They open the steel cover over the hydrant. They remove portable hose reel from a truck and cart it to the fire hydrant. They drag hose to hook and ladder. People stand in front of buildings in the background. Firemen on truck arrive near the fire hydrant. They dismount and rush hose from truck to hydrant.
A small park along the Ginzan way in Tokyo, Japan. Group of small air raid shelters in the park. Buildings in the background, seen soon after the end of World War 2. The shelters constructed of earth and bamboo reinforcement. A woman sits outside a shelter. She eats food while seated on the ground.
United States Navy sailors and Japanese girls out for a stroll in front of the Imperial palace in Tokyo, Japan, a few months after the end of World War 2. Buildings in the background. They sit and talk near the palace. They look at a diary. A sailor reads the diary. A girl writes down something in the diary.
Japanese aircraft being destroyed by antiaircraft fire from U.S. warships and by U.S. carrier-based aircraft near Tokyo, Japan, in World War 2.
Air and Naval gunfire attacks by American Task Force against Tokyo, Japan, during World War 2. A Destroyer in the background fires its main battery. Battleship underway fires to the starboard. Fighter aircraft take off from carrier deck. Group of U.S. SB2Cs (Helldiver) in formation. Two U.S. Grumman F6F hellcats in flight. TBM Avengers in flight. Mount Fujiyama seen above cloud cover. Japanese installations on ground being struck. Noticeable absence of Japanese defensive actions.