Major Robert Morgan (well-known as the pilot of the B-17, "Memphis Belle," first to complete 25 missions over Germany, in the European Theater and now a B-29 Aircraft Commander with the 73rd Bomb Wing) briefs his crew. They sit on the tarmac near their aircraft, the B-29, "Dauntless Dotty," which was lead aircraft on the first B-29 bombing mission over Japan, on November 24, 1944. The Crew enters the aircraft after the briefing. (World War II period).
War Correspondents on Saipan, Marianas Islands during World War II. Interior of war correspondent's quarters. Correspondents typing documents and playing cards. Some correspondents rest on their cots.
Japanese people work to help the soldiers during World War II. Many Japanese girls hand sew army insignia in class. Japanese schoolgirls use sewing machines to make insignias. A teacher demonstrates insignia making in class. Sewing pattern for diagram is drawn on the blackboard. Other girls, wearing white aprons, sew some clothes and belts for the soldiers. Girls folding handmade parachutes and stacking them on a pile. View of the Imperial Diet building in Tokyo, Japan (1 Chome-7-1 Nagatachō, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-0014, Japan). Sign in Japanese reads “Section Committee”. Japanese office workers working inside a small office. Piles of paper on desks. Men seated at desk as they work on the documents.
Japanese people work to help soldiers and contribute to the war effort on the home front in Japan during World War II. Man puts charcoal into a gas tank of bus. Charcoal bus departs. Japanese soldier's caps being made on sewing machine. School children collect metals. Boy buys Japanese war bond at a post office. People put coins into a safe. Monoplane (fighter) being contributed by a school. Several Japanese biplane aircraft take off. Small Japanese tanks at a parade in Tokyo with view of Imperial Palace in background. People watch the tanks.
Japanese people work to help the soldiers during World War II. Interior of a Japanese munitions factory. Young men in Kokumin-Fuku uniform being trained in mechanical or engineering field. Young men work on machines and equipment in munitions factory. Several coal trucks travel out of the entrance of a mine. Interior of a cast-steel factory. Women work in the factory. Procedures of canning rice. Rice being cooked in a large pot.
Japanese people working on home front in Japan to help Japanese soldiers and war effort during World War II. Crates of freshly caught fish. Fish being sundried in racks. A woman gathers dried fish from racks. People in fishing village as they process split, dried fish for the soldiers. Men fasten wooden crates with rope. Women harvesting vegetables near Mount Fuji. Girls plow a farm field with the help of a horse. Piles of rabbit skins in a factory. Men load the rabbit skins in a truck. The truck departs.
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