Japanese Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma being greeted in Manila during World War 2. People lining the sidewalks, wave Japanese flags. General Homma drives past in an automobile. He salutes as he walks through outer gates of the U.S. Embassy and further to the main building which has become his residence, as Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Imperial Military in the Philippines. The Japanese flag now flies from the flagpole in front of the building.
Japanese troops walking along the "Road to Mandalay" in World War 2. A road sign shows 104 miles North to Mandalay and 326 miles South to Rangoon.Cattle in a field. Road clogged with Japanese troops, some leading or riding horses. Several soldiers on bicycles.Trucks line the side of road. An official proclamation posted in Japanese and Burmese.Roadside lined with Burmese people, some carrying parasols. They offer water to passing troops and for their animals. Japanese troops drinking from their newly filled canteens. Japanese soldiers interrogate a wounded British soldier sitting on the ground. Japanese infantry files past a line of Japanese tanks. They pass another road sign pointing 82 miles to Mandalay, 348 miles to Rangoon, and 6 miles to Hanza. Japanese troops struggle to move a truck over a by-pass around a bridge destroyed by the British. Japanese officers surveying the situation. A photographer takes pictures of Japanese tanks coming over a steep hill. Japanese gun crew secures a field artillery piece in place, with rope and stakes. They then load and fire it. Rounds exploding in the distance.Tanks and other military vehicles are parked clear of the artillery, as if waiting to proceed, after the bombardment. Truck pulling a large artillery piece and infantry pulling small artillery pieces, advance alongside parked tanks. Some of the infantrymen carry Japanese flags. Japanese tanks rolling into outskirts of Mandalay, near railroad yard, past trashed military equipment.
Scenes of French civilians and German army vehicles on street in Paris, France during the Nazi occupation. The French, American and the United Kingdom flags flutter from a pole high over a building. French civilians read notices and walk in a street. Men ride bicycles. A board on a building reads 'Deutsches Soldatenkino' meaning "German Soldier's Cinema". The German flags on a building. Army trucks drive past on a road.
Huge smoke rises from a building in Paris, France. Fire and smoke rises from the Great Palace. Damaged Renault factory destroyed by British R.A.F. shells. Vehicles and French civilians on a street. Fire fighters spray water on the burning buildings. Burnt building structure with debris on the ground. Among the ruins is a portion of an entrance way still standing with words on it "St. Pierre des Corps. Entree de Gare". (World War II period).
World War II French prisoners of war come out of freight cars and walk towards a railroad platform in Paris, France. Wounded French prisoners arrive at a train station in Paris. Soldiers assist the wounded. French prisoners of war walk with baggage. French politician Pierre Laval arrives from London, England at the North Station along with German Minister Schleier. He shakes hands with other German officers. Debris lying outside German troops barracks.
Factories in Bridgeport, Connecticut. A man walks on either Maiden Lane or California Street. (These streets are now gone.) Smoke rises from the stacks of The American Tube and Stamping Company. The factory is viewed from the west side of the Yellow Mill Channel. Industrial smoke and smog pollution from stacks.