Japanese American children at school in a relocation center (internment camp) during World War 2. The U.S. flag on a relocation center. Young children in Kindergarten class. Teachers teach small students in a primary class. Girl student in the class solves problems. Students learn to play basketball at a court. Slate notes, "How do they react to the rising tide of racial prejudice? Well, here's one answer -- a growing feeling among the older Japanese that they will be permanently segregated and become wards of the United States, like the American Indian. Thus willing hands erect more permanent school buidlings." View of Japanese-American worker-residents in the camp building school buildings. Nisei students and American teacher at a high school. A girl solves trigonometry problems, standing at the black board in a class room. A student arranges drawers in a rack. Older Japanese-born men and women (Issei) learning in a school classroom. A student writes answers on the blackboard.
Japanese propaganda film during World War 2. Japanese doctors examine American or Allied prisoners of war at a prison camp of Imperial Japan. Surgeons work inside an operating room. A dentist examines the teeth of an Allied prisoner. Doctors examine the ears, faces, and chests of prisoners. A doctor examines a wounded prisoner, and the Japanese nurse gives tablets to the soldier. The patient smokes a cigarette from his hospital bed.
Formation of U.S. 8th Air Force B-17 bombers in flight over Germany during World War 2.Gunners firing 50 caliber machine guns from various positions in a B-17, as attacking German interceptor aircraft race past. One German aircraft is hit and pieces of it fall off. B-17 enters bombing run. View of bombardier and bomb sight image. German aircraft continue attacks and gunners continue defending as the bombardier announces "bombs away." This is a high altitude mission and all crew members are on oxygen. Glimpse of pilot and copilot in cockpit. Pilot alerts gunners to a German FW-190 aircraft attacking them. Waist gunners pause to look at a German fighter smoking, as it falls, and strikes the ground in an explosion. Sequence shifts to formation of B-24 Liberator bomber on a mission with bombs visible dropping from bomb bays. Sequence shifts again, rapidly, to a formation of B-29 Superfortress bombers dropping bombs. Nighttime view of incendiary clusters being dropped on Japan. (Note: One of the B-29s seen is serial number 42-24547, assigned to the 6th Bomb Group, 315th Bomb Wing. This B-29 crashed short of the runway on 31 Dec 1944, at Borinquen Field, Puerto Rico, where the 6th bomb Group underwent combat crew training. And the B-29s shown do not display any tail codes.)
German test launch of a A-4/V-2 missile, from a wooded site, at the Heidelager testing range near Blizna, Poland. The Missile moves upwards, emitting fire and smoke from its tail, and then heads downrange, with the fire in its tail visible throughout the entire clip.
United States 8th Air Force Division's B-17 bombers attacks oil refinery storage center in Merseburg in eastern Germany on November 2, 1944 during World War II. Ball turret gun camera footage as B-17 aircraft drop bombs on the target. German aircraft shoots down an U.S. Army Air Force B-17. American B-17 in flames and descending. In Offenburg American B-17 aircraft bomb a marshaling yard on November 22, 1944. Bombs impact and smoke rises.
United States B-17 aircraft drop bombs to destroy key Nazi buildings in Berlin, Germany during World War 2. Bombs impact causing a pillar of smoke to rise up from the target area as seen in gun camera footage.
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