LCMs (Mechanized Landing Craft) coming into shore at Port of Sasebo in Japan. Ramp of LCM is dropped and soldiers of United States Army 32nd Division come ashore. A car coming out of a LCM. Ramp of LCM get closed. (World War II period).
Japanese soldiers, men and women civilians debarking from Japanese wooden vessel at pier in Fukuoka, Japan. Two United States guards look as the Japanese file into a wooden building for screening by Counter Intelligence Corps. Many Japanese women with children on their back, waiting in queue. Sign reads 'Inspection Station of the U.S. Military Government'. (World War II period).
Power line to laboratory building in Kyoto, Japan, several months after the end of World War 2. United States soldiers using acetylene torch on sections of the cyclotronic equipment. Soldiers attaching winch cable to part of equipment through a hole in the building. Cable pulling the cyclotron apart.
Animated map of Tokyo, Iwo Jima, and Saipen. Arrows show attack on Iwo Jima. Aerial view of the island. Ships of United States Navy 5th fleet seen in the region. Numerous views of U.S. Navy ships shelling Japanese targets on Iwo Jima Island, with naval guns and rocket barrage. Smoke and explosions seen. View on a U.S. Navy landing craft after it is hit by a Japanese shell. Dead U.S. sailor on the deck of the ship. View of Aircraft Carrier in region. A U.S. fighter aircraft crash lands on the deck of the carrier. A U.S. plane crashes in ocean right beside a U.S. ship and sinks, but the pilot is thrown clear and is seen swimming. Crewmen on a nearby U.S. Navy destroyer ship throw a rescue ring buoy to the pilot of a fighter aircraft that crashed in the ocean. The pilot is returned from the rescue ship to his aircraft carrier via breeches buoy line between the ships.
Japanese Kamikaze aircraft attacks on U.S. Navy ships in Pacific Ocean. A Japanese plane is hit, explodes and spins into ocean. Kamikaze planes being hit and crashing into ocean. Some missed are hitting United States Navy vessels. (World War II period).
United States General Douglas MacArthur, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz sign during surrender ceremonies in Tokyo Bay following the surrender of Japan in World War II. General MacArthur and Admiral Halsey talk at right. Japanese delegate signs surrender document. Russian officer, Australian or British officer, French officer, and other Allied representatives sign in succession. Japanese delegates sign in succession. Too many photographers in background. (World War II period).