A torpedo plant in Japan. A series of three shots showing the main control panel of the ordnance plant which has been destroyed by fire. Boiler house heavily damaged. Blast effect on brick wall of the boiler plant. Remains of the building housing hydraulic pressure. Torpedo works destroyed by fire. Electric furnaces, hydraulic pressures and press boosters. Destruction of hydraulic compression chambers as result of fragmentation. Effects of direct hit on reinforced concrete wall.
Kyoto Imperial Palace and a market place in Japan. A large group of 3rd grade school children march through the grounds of Kyoto Imperial Palace. Children stop to pick flowers and rest. In Kobe: Japanese people pass through a shop area. A narrow street and newly erected shops in temporary buildings in Japanese market area.
Investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack by Japan during World War II in the United States. Officials of the Joint Congressional Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack gather in the court room. Officials seated at their desks and Major General Walter C. Short, U.S. Army (retired), addresses them about the Pearl Harbor attack by Japan. He states that he appeared for the hearing of Pearl Harbor attack in August 1944. No indication was made by the war department about the attack. No information was furnished by them. If they had furnished the information, some decisions or actions could have been taken. He talked to officials of the war time division, but no conclusions were made.
Close views of Gearing Class Destroyer, USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830) near Sasebo,Japan. Captured Japanese submarine explodes before it sinks during Operation Road's End.
Matsushiro Underground Imperial Headquarters for the Japanese government and high command in the town of Matsushiro, near Nagano, Japan. View of office area includes windows, doorway, ceiling, and exit. Window in hallway of building.
Physical damage caused due to atom bomb explosion in Nagasaki, Japan during World War II. Wooden boxes with unexposed portions protected from flash burns. Ropes tied to boxes protected the area tied from flash burn. Rope being removed and the protected area. Effects of the shadow cast by the rope. A wooden fuse on the wall. Effect of the flash burn on the wooden box. A man walks towards the box and rips it from the wall. The area behind the box which remained protected from the flash burn.