Skeleton of a large building. Scenes of destruction in Japan soon after end of World War 2 fighting. Japanese buildings and small shacks. Japanese civilians tear down air raid shelters in Shiba district of Tokyo city. Scenes of rubble and damage from war bombing. Damaged Buddhist club building.
Allied air war over Germany and Japan in World War II. A map showing the Germany occupied areas in Europe and Japan occupied region in South Asia. Aerial views of Allied bomber aircraft flying over the city of Berlin, Germany. The target, Messerschmitt AG, a German aircraft manufacturer company, is bombed by the bombers. Bombs strike the target and huge explosion destroys the factory. Allied bombers drop bombs over targets in Tokyo, Japan. Bombs hit the ground and explosion smoke can be seen from the plane during saturation bombing of Tokyo, Japan.
United States bombers bombard Japan during World War 2. U.S. Army Air Forces Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers dropping bombs over Tokyo, Japan. View of Mount Fuji in Honshu Island, Japan. Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers of the 21st Bomber Command in flight. Aerial view of bomb dropping into a Japanese town. Industrial zone being hit by bombs. General Henry H. Arnold shakes hands with an officer in Washington D.C. A message written on a bomb. Message on the bomb reads “TO THE WARLORDS OF JAPAN WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN- THE B-29’S WILL REMIND YOU AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!!!”. Buildings in Tokyo, Japan. A map of Saipan. B-29 aircraft land at an airstrip in Saipan. B-29 take off for a mission. Bombs being dropped over Japanese town.
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.
From "The Last Bomb", showing U.S. Army Air Forces bombing targets in and over Japan during World War 2. B-29s taxi on airfield and take off from runway. Crew in cockpit of aircraft. More B-29s taxi on runway at Tinian airfield. B-29s leave flight lines at Saipan airfield. B-29s taxi and take off from runway. Last B-29 takes off from Saipan airfield. Controller in tower talking into radio. Controller in Guam attends phone call. Take off times of each wing are noted by men at desk. Man attaches copy on report board. B-29 in flight over Pacific Ocean. Crew inside the plane. Navigator marks the chart. Aircraft makes run over Iwo Jima Island. Bulldozer leveling the surface at Sulfur island of Iwo Jima. P51s parked at airfield. Officers discuss around chart. P-51s warm up in flight line. P-51s taking off from airfield. Group of P-51s in flight. Controller at Guam talks over phone. Officer marks positions of each wing on mission board. P-51s fly low over water. Pilot of P-51 speaks. Crewman's hand at instrument panel. P-51s in flight behind B-29s. Smoke marker is dropped from an aircraft. Groups of planes separate. B-29s defend against attacking Japanese planes. A Japanese plane drops phosphorous bomb which explodes in the way of formation of B-29s. P-51 peels off to attack Japanese plane and protect B-29. P-51 fires at Japanese plane. Japanese plane is hit and goes down in flames. Formation of B-29s heading for mission. B-29s dropping bombs on Tokyo.
U.S. soldiers in Japan during American occupation after World War II. Japanese crowd outside around Ginza-District, Tokyo. Buildings at a busy Center of Ginza-Districts, Chuo-Ward, Tokyo. View in the vinicity of Intersection of "Ginza" Ave. and Ave."Z" (current Harumi Ave.) from the rooftop of high building (current Matsuzakaya Department Store). Many sidewalk vendors line along "Ginza" Ave.. Soldiers stand near pedicabs. U.S. Army vehicles move through the intersection of the center of "Ginza-District" along Ave."Z" from "Harumi" towards "Hibiya" direction. A Japanese man stands with a child along the side walk on Ave."Z". A Japanese woman and boy shine shoes of U.S. soldiers. U.S. soldiers of First Cavalry Division buy unit badges, for their uniform hats, from a Japanese woman street vendor.