"Kobe strike" shows United States B-29 bomber aicraft dropping 3200 tons of incendiary bombs over industrial targets in Kobe, Japan during World War 2. Firebombing causes pillars of smoke to rise up. Narrator speaks of strikes on other Japanese cities also and relates statement by General Arnold that beginning July 1945, industrial Japan will be hit by bombs at the rate of 2 million tons per year, or 5480 tons per day, adding that "by the end of 1946, Japan will have ceased to exist as a bombing target."
A survey of the damage inflicted upon Kobe, Japan during World War II. A view across the debris of a Japanese Government building. A religious edifice stands in the rubble. Sannomiya Station shows steel casement windows showing the effect of fire. The windows on different floors shoe the fire effect. Debris in the area. A corner of a cement wooden frame building shows effects of fragmentation. Burned area in the north of Hankyu Elevated Railroad. A section between the Sanyo Main Line and streetcar tracks. Damage inflicted on the area.
A survey of the damage inflicted upon Kobe, Japan during World War II. Damage inflicted on the area shows the effect of fire on a three-story brick load bearing structure in Tomiya-Cho of which the floors have collapsed. Interiors of a bombed out building. South and west faces of a two-story brick load bearing structure which was gutted by the fire. This building is located west of School Higashide-cho. A two-story brick load bearing structure which was gutted by the fire. This building was the Yamada Bank. Another building gutted by the fire is located on the main street in Toba-cho. Higashi Yanigawara-cho shows bank vaults among the rubble. Burnt out area of Higashi Yanigawara-cho. A private storehouse amongst the rubble. Rubbled area between elevated railroad and streetcar tracks.
A survey of the damage inflicted upon Kobe, Japan during World War II. A view of Kobe Station Kawasaki and heavy industry and Higashi Kawasaki-cho. An area near Higashi Yuenchi Park shows effect of fire on a light steel frame structure and 2 and 3 story brick buildings. A two-story brick building was gutted by the fire and its south wall has collapsed. Gutted and partially collapsed buildings one block north of a harbor police building. A ruined brick building with rubble in the foreground. Rubble and damaged buildings near Hong Kong Shanghai Bank (Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation).
A survey of the damage inflicted upon Kobe, Japan during World War II. A ruined building. Pedestrians walk along a road. Damaged buildings in the background. This is the area near Naka Sambashi Pier. Remains of a concrete and brick building. Partially collapsed two-story and three-story gutted brick buildings near Electric Light Company. Rubble strewn area with remains of brick buildings and concrete walls still standing.
A survey of the damage inflicted upon Kobe, Japan during World War II. Small machines in the rubble. South of streetcar tracks in third square west of Hong Kong Shanghai Bank is a stone grotto in the rubble and destroyed brick buildings. The east face of a three-story concrete school in Eizawocho. The building shows the effects of fire on the concrete wall. The south face of a two-story building gutted by the fire. Front columns of a building heavily chipped by the fire. A two story building gutted by fire which affected a closed metal shutter.