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General Charles De Gaulle and Allied troops during the Liberation of Paris (WW2)
First day of the Liberation of Paris in World War II. A war correspondent views the city from atop a hill. View of Paris with Eiffel Tower in the background. View of the Arc De Triomphe (Pl. Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris, France). People greet soldiers along the Champs Elysees Avenue. General Charles De Gaulle takes the salute and receives flowers from a little girl. French policemen control the crowd. The General parades down the Champs Elysees Avenue followed by the U.S. troops. Civilians wave to soldiers and cheer. Sudden firing by the forces left behind. Soldiers fire machine guns and artillery at the building. Soldiers on a bridge. Civilians take cover under and behind military vehicles. They crouch and lie flat on the street. General De Gaulle in a car. French policemen drag Germans and other prisoners. The people assault and beat them.
B-17 Flying Fortress bombers strike Berlin and return to England some badly damaged (WW2)
United States bomber aircraft during first day light raid on Berlin during World War II. Bombers leave condensation trails in the sky while flying in formation toward Berlin. Views of American soldiers in aircraft. Aircraft drop bombs. Smoke arises due to explosion. B-17 aircraft in flight. Return of damaged B-17 bomber. American soldiers stand on and around a B-17 bomber after the bombing run.
Battle of Changsha in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War (WW2)
Closeup of two Nationalist Chinese soldiers with their flag flying on tall flagpole in background. Next, countless numbers of Chinese soldiers are seen marching along the Great Wall during the Second Sino-Japanese War (World War II). Newspaper article reads: "52,000 Japanese fall at Changsha." Animated map depicts China and environs, with major cities. Areas of Japanese occupation are shown in black. The city of Changsha is highlighted by a circle. Japanese force is shown massing at Yueyang (Yochow), near Dongting Lake (Ting Tung Hu Lake), and advancing on 24 December 1941, toward Changsha. The map shows Chinses forces putting up token resistance and retreating to the East (rather than toward Changsha) and Japanese forces beginning assault on Changsha, New Year’s Day, 1942. Map shows the Chinese forces from the East attacking and cutting the Japanese supply lines. Japanese forces besieging Changsha are forced to retreat under counterattack by the Chinese. A field artillery piece being fired by Chinese forces and explosion and smoke from its shell striking. More field artillery being fired. Japanese forces carrying their Rising Sun flag as they retreat under fire. Chinese infantry firing from a berm A Japanese soldier falls to gunfire. Japanese soldiers retreating across a narrow-improvised bridge across a swamp. Chinese soldier next to a building, firing a Czech ZB vz. 26 light machine gun. Japanese running with horses through a village. Chinese gunner firing Japanese Type 92 machine gun down on Japanese troops retreating across a bridge below. Another Chinese soldier firing a Czech 26 light machine gun, from hill overlooking retreating Japanese troops, below. Victorious Nationalist Chinese troops parading in celebration along a road high above buildings of a town below in background. Men in Khaki pants and white shirts parading. Girls in white dresses, carrying Chinese flags. Soldiers marching (without weapons) celebrating.
Allied troops capture Myitkyina, Burma, and Japanese 15th and 33rd Divisions counterattack British Forces at Imphal in India (WW2)
At opening, film shows U.S. Army Air Forces Bell P-39 Bell Air Cobra aircraft dropping bombs on on Japanese held northern airfield of Myitkyina, which was later captured by the 3rd Battalion Merrill's on July 26, 1944. Aerial view from U.S. aircraft bombing the Japanese occupied city of Myitkyina, on the west bank of the Ayeyarwady River, in Burma. Heavy smoke rising from bombs striking targets at the river's edge. (Narrator states, "the siege lasted 78 days.") Next, a regiment of Merrill's Marauders marches unopposed into the city. Animated map shows Japanese forces (15th and 33rd Division troops) attacking British-held town of Imphal, Burma. Ensuing scenes show well entrenched British forces in battle, with British soldiers firing heavy artillery, mortars, and Vickers machine guns. Glimpse of shells striking in hills. Momentary glimpse of Allied aircraft above the hills. (Narrator states the British "chewed up a couple of Jap divisions"," and the Allied rear lines of communication remained secure.) Animated map shows Chinese forces attacking Japanese forces west of the Salween River. View from a high position above the river bank. Rubber rafts line the shore and troops are assembling on the land. Next, troops are seen wading neck deep crossing the river with supplies floating along with them. Some paddle a jeep across the river on a makeshift raft. A truck at the edge of the river. Soldiers pulling together on a long rope line. Others crossing with hands on a line to support them as they wade in the water. Trucks bogging down in deep mud are helped by tow lines to others, ahead. Troops in a village where the road is inundated by rain waters flowing across it as a jeep goes past. Vehicles of all kinds sidelined by flooding waters. Jeeps speeding through water in some places and moving very slowly in the center of a muddy road where troops make their way on either side. Chinese soldiers scaling the stone wall of a fortress using ladders they made for the purpose. Troops firing a small artillery field piece and then charging towards battle-damaged buildings. Several are seen using flame throwers, that set building afire. More views of Chinese soldiers firing artillery and heavy machine guns. (World War II period)
Modern Japanese women and their professions in the years after World War 2
Postwar Japanese women working in various professions in the early 1950s. Japanese women wear Western outfits, go to bars and restaurants for a drink and a smoke. The woman approach men inside a bar. Japanese women smoking with men. A Japanese woman opens sliding door and joins her family for dinner. She begins to talk about her day. Her father nods with disapproval while her younger sister, wearing a High School sailor-style Seifuku uniform, looks on. Men reading a newspaper. A Japanese couple walks in the park. They find a boy fishing on the lake. Japanese women in parliament. Japanese women working as scientists, as nurses and as doctors in hospitals and surgical operating rooms. Japanese woman heads a corporate company meeting. Japanese women work as corporate secretaries. Woman works with farmers. NHK radio station featuring a Japanese woman, who is seated in a broadcast booth. A Japanese woman at a newspaper operation inspects newspapers coming off a printing press. Japanese women as musicians and western ballet dancers. Japanese woman playing a violin with an orchestra. Japanese woman playing the piano. A Japanese woman painting while wearing a kimono. Japanese woman lecturer comes out of a college building. Japanese men gather and talk outside a building. A Japanese woman casts her vote in a ballot box. Japanese civilians in voting poll. The National Diet is filled with parliamentarians.
A firehouse in the city of Tokyo, Japan, soon after the end of World War 2
Nihonbashi Firehouse in Kabutocho-Town, Nihonbashi-ward (current-day Chuo-ward), City of Tokyo, Japan. Fire trucks leave the firehouse. Fire trucks pass a busy intersection near Nihonbashi-Bridge on the Ginza Street in the Nihonbashi district. Traffic policeman on the street controls the traffic. He maneuvers the fire truck through the traffic. Buildings along the street. People gather on the street in front of the building.
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