A film in the United States about achievements and role of African American soldiers during World War II. A dramatization depicts An African American priest at a church as he addresses people about the outbreak of World War II. Nazi eagle symbol. Past events show German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Japanese officers conferring at a map. A Japanese flag flies. A building being bombed during World War II. Smoke rises. Children being hanged to death by the Nazis in the European Theater. Japanese aircraft bombard areas in Asia. Asian civilians rush as bombs explode. Dead and injured civilians after the bombings. Injured being loaded onto a truck. Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Naval guns being fired at Japanese aircraft in flight during the attack. An African American machine gunner fires at Japanese aircraft.
Animation depicts the spread of malaria among soldiers fighting during World War II. Anopheles Annie speaks about how she managed to spread malaria in South Pacific, India and North Africa . A sign on a door reads ' Off limits'. A soldier reads a book titled ' Malaria Discipline'. Anopheles Annie bites a man and spreads malaria. Malaria control measures being adopted and Anopheles being killed. Patients suffering from malaria in beds. A graph shows the numbers of malaria cases. Anopheles Annie looks at pictures of Private Snafu. Anopheles attacks Snafu.
Japanese troops surrender to British forces in Singapore at the end of World War II. A view of the England naval base in Singapore. The Japanese troops at the base. A Japanese guard with a bayonet. Japanese troops putting barricade away. A view of the city. The British troops disembark a ship. The troops with guns on their shoulders walk on the port. Singaporean civilians greet British troops on trucks. Starved British prisoners cheering from behind a fence. A prisoner smokes. The prisoners light each other’s cigarettes. The Singapore prisoners at the Japanese prison camp. Several views of the prisoners showing emaciation under Japanese captivity. Emaciated British prisoners of war only wearing white fundoshi or Japanese undergarments. British General Lord Louis Mountbatten arrives for a meeting. Japanese delegation lead by General Seishiro Itagaki enters a hall for the meeting. The Japanese delegates and British officials in a hall for the meeting. Mountbatten investigates the surrender document. Itakaki signs the surrender document. People seated during the meeting. The British troops stand in formation in the background. The British flag is raised. (World War II period).
Atrocities committed by Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) soldiers in China and other parts of Asia during World War II. War workers in offices, factories, and mills shift their attention to the narrator. Smoke rises from factory smokestacks and chimneys. American workers manufacture war materiel in factories. Factory workers shovel coal to the furnace. Japanese soldiers abuse elderly Chinese women. A Japanese soldier toss an infant before striking with a bayonet midair. A Chinese woman watches with shock. IJA troops drag and bury Chinese civilians alive. IJA troops burn cities and shoot victims at close range. Soldiers place the remains of dead Chinese men, women, and children in truck. Japanese soldiers torture and kill Chinese civilians and are depicted killing American Prisoners of War (POW). Aerial views of San Francisco, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and New York. A dead Japanese soldier with flies covering his face. A newly built M4 Sherman tank moves inside a factory. Body of a Japanese soldier wearing round glasses. Dead Japanese soldiers seen with repeating American wartime propaganda message that every piece of wartime production "kills a Jap." Tanks, trucks, planes, shells, guns, and artillery are manufactured in United States factories and plants during World War II. Americans urged to take war jobs to help win World War 2.
WAC (Women's Army Corps) activities in Kandy, Ceylon. WAC in Still Photo Laboratory stamp credit line on back of still photographs. Board reads 'SEAC (South East Asia Command) Unit Still Laboratory'.
WAC (Women's Army Corps) activities in Kandy, Ceylon. Board reads 'Record Section, SEAC (South East Asia Command) headquarters'. A group of WAC exercises on an open ground. They stretch their hands and bend down. Women's Army Corps relax on ground after the exercise.
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