Aerial views of a sprawling U.S. Army Air Forces base in the Pacific Theater in World War 2. Various air strips and buildings. View of warships in the adjacent harbor. Vehicles drive on various roads on the ground. A B-25 Mitchell bomber with gear down on final approach to the airfield. Aerial views of the island and base.
Image of test atomic bomb explosion in New Mexico during World War 2. View of the Oak Ridge Tennessee bomb fabrication plant and various other buildings of Y-12 complex involved in the Manhattan Project. Post Office erected for employees in the Oak Ridge community. Men and women scientists and war worders enter the plant, passing after security check. A citizen looks at a Knoxville Courier newspaper headline about the atomic bomb drops in Japan, seen on the bulletin board. Exterior view of the 184-inch cyclotron laboratory building at the University of California. Professor Ernest Lawrence at a panel board in his laboratory. Clouds of smoke from a atomic bomb explosion.
Many B-29 Superfortress bombers, of the 314th Bombardment Wing, taxi and take off from North Field Guam during World War 2. Most of them are from the 29th Bomb Group, and display the black square O tail code. (Aircraft numbers: 16;45;24;7 5; and 27, are seen.) One, displaying the black square K tail code and number 9, is from the 330th Bomb Group.
B-29 Superfortress bombers of the 314th Bombardment Wing, taxi on a North Field Guam in World War 2. Aircraft of the 29th Bomb Group, displaying Sq 'O' tail codes and from 39th Bomb Group, showing Sq 'P' are shown taxiing from hardstands.
Japanese children walk and run out of a school building in Kyoto, Japan. Children with bags and water bottles in hand. People walk on a street in post-war Japan soon after the end of World War 2.
Construction of the the Alaska Highway aka Alaska-Canadian Highway aka ALCAN Highway, in 1942. Montage showing momentary views of American highways seen from underneath, highlighting their structural supports and the like. A man traveling in snow by means of a dogsled. Vehicles bumping along on rough road in a wilderness, passing a piece of heavy road-building machinery in operation. A sign posted on June 15, 1942, soliciting workers for construction of the ALCAN highway. The sign reads "This is No Picnic." Steam locomotive pulling railroad train into station at Whitehorse, Yukon territory, Canada. Men in parkas sorting through boxes of supplies at the rail depot. A caterpillar tractor clearing trees along the planned roadway path. Canvas covered trucks driving across snow-covered landscape. Narrator mentions start of World War 2, as related scenes are shown, including: A formation of military aircraft in flight; Bomb exploding in Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; and wreckage of the USS Arizona after the attack. Scene shifts to workmen in parkas carrying tools, as they walk past tents in snowy site. Surveyors struggling through snow and underbrush to perform their work. A truck driving across a temporary bridge. A bulldozer clearing underbrush. A convoy of trucks driving along a snowy road. Men attempting to free a vehicle trapped in a snow bank. Vehicles moving along parts of the highway covered by water from melting ice. A Jeep driving past a tent displaying a sign pointing to Tokyo. Gathering of construction workers in completion ceremony at Soldier's Summit on 21 November, 1942.
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