View of the aircraft carrier, USS Bunker Hill in dry dock at Bremerton, Washington. She is being repaired after being attacked by Japanese Kamikazes during the invasion of Okinawa in World War 2, in which suffered more than 600 casualties including 346 dead and 43 missing. View of the ship's captain, George Seitz, looking over the damage to the ship. Camera shows severe damage below decks of the Bunker Hill and outside, where the flight deck is seen completely destroyed and collapsed into the ship's interior. View of a large scoreboard displaying a Japanese flag for every enemy plane downed by crew of the Bunker Hill. A sailor totals them and writes "475" on the board. Crew members are massed on shore and wave enthusiastically about returning to sea and rejoining the battle against Japan. (Note: The USS Bunker Hill repairs were not completed until after the war ended.)
A Japanese officer in uniform and three Kamikaze pilots in flight gear walk toward the camera during visit to a Shinto Shrine in Chofu, Japan, during World War 2. Trees in the background. The four men bow in unison.
A World War II reenactment showing four Kamikaze pilots in Chofu, Japan. They are dressed in flying gear at the airfield. Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter plane parked in the background. Men walk on a field. Pilots stand near a table. A commander stands at the other end of the table. Sake or Japanese rice wine placed on the table. One at a time, the pilots step forward and receive a small glass of Sake which they drink as a farewell toast. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
Workers at a factory in Tokyo, Japan. World War 2 air raid shelters on the grounds of the factory. Japanese workers open the door of the air raid shelter and enter the factory. Interior of the factory shows the working men. Workers at the bench lathe. They monitor the equipment.
Soon after the end of World War 2, Japanese children walk in a trench in Tokyo, Japan. Group of boys fishing above a dock. Fire gutted building in the background in war ravaged Japan. Wrecked buildings and houses from bombing. Citizens living in poverty. Men stand outside the shacks. A woman holds a cat in her arms outside a shack.
Factory workers separate a small mobile hand pump for fire fighting under the direction of Metropolitan Tokyo fire department in Tokyo, Japan. Women operate the hand pump. Japanese fireman of the Tokyo fire department. Japanese fire fighter talks to the chief. Scenes are from soon after the end of World War 2.
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