United States Army inspection of pillbox at Atsugi Airdrome in Japan, soon after the end of World War 2. United States officers inspect pillbox. Steel structure of hangar behind the pillbox.
A group of U.S. Marines, aboard a ship, lean over a map and discuss their mission to occupy an airfield at Yokosuka, Japan, at the end of world war 2..The U.S.Destroyer, USS Allen M. Sumner (DD-692), is seen in the background. Scene changes to Marines crowded in a Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP) near a troop transport ship. The craft displays a pennant bearing the number "7." Next, they approach a seaplane ramp at the Yokosuka Naval Base, where their craft lowers its door and they disembark. They march off in a formation. ( Many U.S. Marines are already seen on the base, having arrived in earlier landing craft.) Camera pans over hangars adjacent to Atsugi airfield, where debris is strewn about, including inverted remains of a Japanese transport plane and remains of two single engine fighter planes. U.S.. Marines enter a large hangar, showing blast damage on its doors. Others enter another large hangar. View from above of several Japanese Mitsubishi A6M2b Zero Fighter planes on a ramp outside a hangar. View from a high point overlooking damaged hangars, shows a bay of water with hills and some other installations at opposite water's edge. Camera pans back again to the Zero fighter planes and hangar seen earlier. Another view of fairly large body of water behind the damaged Naval base. Group of Marines marching past a hangar. Inverted Japanese aircraft in foreground. Closeup of U.S. Navy Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, U.S. Navy Fleet Admiral William Frederick Halsey, Jr. and and other officers.
A U.S. Navy P-3C Orion aircraft in Atsugi, Japan during a long range navigational test. A flight crew is briefed in a weather briefing room. Navigator Lieutenant R.T. Myers and pilot Lieutenant Commander F.H. Stoodley figure out fuel consumption for the flight. Flight Meteorologist Commander J.E. Koeher speaks to aircraft commander Commander D.H. Lilienthal, flight engineer K.D. Frontz, pilot Captain R.H. Ross and flight engineer H. A. Statti. Commander Koher and Commander Lilienthal discuss weather conditions. A navigational chart depicts the flight path from Japan to Pax River in Maryland, Unite States. Commander Lilienthal stands next to a bulletin board as he points out at the chart.
Herbert Hoover accompanied by Lieutenant General Robert L. Eichelberger review elements of the 1st Cavalry Division from an M-08 armored car in Atsugi, Japan. Soldiers stand aligned and Hoover salutes from car. Hoover stands at reviewing stand. He stands under flags and review troops. Soldiers march with flag of United States.
Herbert Hoover in Atsugi, Japan. C-24 taxiing on airfield. Line of cars stand at airfield. Jeep driven on airfield and aircrafts parked at side on airfield. Herbert Hoover debarks from aircraft, meet officers and talk to them. The cars go from airfield. Soldiers debarks from aircraft of United States 'The Air Transport Command'. Soldiers stand at airfield.
Herbert Hoover in Atsugi, Japan. Herbert Hoover debarks from aircraft. Hoover talk with Major General William Fredric Marquat. He gets in car. Soldiers salute him as car goes.
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