U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CVS-18) arrives in the City of Newport News, Virginia during World War II. Men carry their baggage and disembark from the USS Wasp. WACs (Women's Army Corps ) stand in the foreground. Several documents kept on a table. The troops disembark.
Post-war views of damage from USAAF bombing of Yokohama, Japan, during World War 2. Steel skeleton of a burnt out warehouse, at a harbor. Interior of the bomb damaged warehouse. Buildings in the background. Damaged ships and damaged warehouses. Japanese men wheel a load of lumber on a two-wheel cart. A burnt storeroom. A Japanese sign lying in the rubble. Wreckage of a cannery and damaged area of cranes at the docks.
Idled ships and cranes at damaged port of Yokahoma, Japan, seen right after end of hostilities in World War 2. Port facilities reduced to steel skeletons from bombing by USAAF in the war. Camera pans over the city from a high point of land. Ocean in background. Wide swaths of completely burned-out areas in the foreground. There is hardly any notable human activity. Scene changes completely to aerial view from aircraft flying overhead. Brief glimpse of a U.S. B-24 Liberator bomber flying below, close to the ground (probably preparing to land). Aerial view of airfield in distance.
Camera pans over damaged areas of Yokahoma, after end of World War 2. Many buildings are damaged in a Wide area of canals and roads. Shells of larger concrete buildings standing amidst wide area of destroyed smaller buildings. Complete change of scene, to U.S. African-American airman, wire-brushing the Japanese red ball roundel from fuselage of a captured Japanese airplane.
Military supplies on Clark Air Base, Manilia, Philippines. Closeup of a stack of wooden boxes containing K-Rations and cardboard boxes of C-rations. Many spools of wire, clustered together, and stacked on end. Batteries of antiaircraft guns, in sand-bagged emplacements,at the airbase perimeter, raise their barrels in unison, for the camera.
World War 2, aerial view of air attacks (from unseen U.S. aircraft) on Japanese military camps in the slopes of mountains rising abruptly over the Keelung (aka Chi-lung, Kirun, or Kiirun) coast of Formosa (Taiwan). Clusters of small explosions are seen covering the camps
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