Aerial views of atomic bomb damage in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan; seen soon after end of World War II. Aerial view of the landscape. Damaged boats seen in a port area. Mountains seen in the background. Bomb damaged terraced land seen.
U.S. War Department information film "Overseas Mission" describes relief and rebuilding works in Germany and Japan by United States Army, after World War II. Battle between the Allied forces and the Nazi armies, soldiers and artillery fire during battle in German cities and towns. General Eisenhower signs accepting surrender of Germany. General MacArthur signs accepting surrender of Japan to mark the end of World War II. Soldiers carry casualties on litters. Treaty of Versailles after World War I. Newspaper lines read Nazi rearmament of Germany. Allied tanks and troops march in Germany. Marching Allied forces in Japan. Destroyed buildings and factories in cities of Japan and Germany. Nuremberg trials and arrests of Nazi generals. Allied forces dismantle German factories and industrial plants capable of making war materiel. A U.S. Army officer pushes handle to detonate explosives destroying a German factory. Nazi flags, German ammunitions and German factories are destroyed. Nazi troops and civilians saluting Hitler. Allied army engineers make roads and bridges, medics checking patients to prevent epidemics. Borders guarded, Nazi Germans tried. Prisoners of Nazi and Japanese released, dispensary checkup their health. Japanese prisoners released, board a bus. Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Re-establishment of press, churches, courts and schools. Japanese children at school. Election in the occupied countries to run democratic government. Map showing opposite positions of occupied countries. Rations for occupation forces and civilians transported in trucks. Officers hiring labor to carry out relief works.
An aerial view of the cove of Sasebo Bay, Japan. Fleet of captured Japenese submarines lying at Sasebo bay.
Operation Road's End. Inspection of Japanese submarines,moored in Sasebo Bay, Japan, that are scheduled for destruction, after World War 2. View from a boat passing several of these submarines. One has a group of U.S. Naval officers and others on its deck. View of Japanese submarines I-366 and Number 107. Japanese sailors are decorating the submarines with branches of cherry blossoms. A Japanese officer looking down from boat I-402, as the camera passes below. Closeup of him posing on his boat for the camera.. Captain Atogi Nakamura, Lt. Tashio Tanaka and crew members posing aboard Japanese submarine I-58 (that sank the USS Indianapolis on July 30, 1945 with torpedos fired by Lt. Tanaka).
A lumber mill located near Maizuru, Japan. Interior of the lumber mill where large logs are being cut by means of an automatic saw machine. Boards are being cut into ½ inch width for use in repairing repatriation ships at the Eno Ship Building Company, Maizuru. The logs float in a lumber pond waiting to be cut into boards. A half completed wooden frame structure on a hillside near the main highway from Kyoto to Sonobe. This building was to be used as a small factory.
Repatriation of Japanese soldiers and civilians to Japan from Korea after conclusion of World War 2. Wide elevated view of buildings in Seoul, Korea. A long bridge spanning over a river. Electrified street car moving on street in Seoul. People walk on a road in a busy market place area. People buy from shops. Various shops in the market. Japanese people are being processed and checked for contraband before returning to Japan. Soldiers use DDT (Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane ) to spray on people, including a young child, as a de-lousing measure. People wait at the port of Busan. People organizing luggage and belongings at port while awaiting travel. U.S. Army soldier inspecting baggage of Japanese civilians. Japanese men, women, and children carrying their belongings walk in a line to board ships. A man gives tickets to Japanese people boarding the ships. Japanese people crowded on the deck of a ship as it prepares to leave port.