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Enemy bombers raid the Isley Field base of U.S. Army Air Force in Saipan in Mariana Islands, during World War II.

United States Army Air Force at the Isley Field base in Saipan in Mariana Island, South Pacific during World War II. Mechanics stand on scaffold to reach the engines of a B-29 bomber. Air raid siren sounds. Mechanics jump on ground and run towards shelter beneath a bunker covered with mud sacks. Soldiers at the anti-aircraft gun post, fire with a 50 caliber anti aircraft gun, following course of enemy plane. Gunners turn the gun following the aerial path of the enemy bomber. GIs lined in a chow line outside a mess hall.

Location: Saipan Northern Mariana Islands
Date: 1944, December 6
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036251
Americans in New York City celebrate the surrender of Japan in World War II, at Times Square.

Film opens showing aerial view of a United States B-29 Superfortress bomber aircraft in flight, then scenes of numerous U.S. Army Air Forces warplanes and bombing (partially obscured by on screen newsreel text). Next, crowds are seen jamming Times Square in Manhattan, New York City, celebrating victory over Japan in World War 2. (Known as V-J Day or Victory over Japan day, marking the end of World War 2, on 14 August, 1945.) A facsimile of the Statue of Liberty has been set up in the square. Moving lights on Times Building motograph news zipper or ticker announce Japanese surrender. Jubilant celebrations and smiling Americans wave American flags. Closeup of the Statue of Liberty facsimile. A woman dances the Lindy Hop with a U.S. Navy sailor, as others (including many servicemen in uniform) watch.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1945, August 14
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036267
American warplanes strike against German Luftwaffe during World War II

Film opens showing air combat scenes from tun camera of several American fighter planes shooting down German warplanes. Some are high altitude encounters with aircraft leaving contrails as they fly. Gun camera views from American planes strafing German airfields and destroying aircraft on the ground. Strafing over lines of communication like roads, highways, canals and railroads. Locomotives struck and huge clouds of smoke issuing from them. Military fortifications being strafed and smoke rising. A huge explosion from a train being strafed. View from American fighter aircraft passing through ball of fire from explosion during strafing. Formation of American B-26 Marauder bombers flying through Flak clouds. One is seen flying level in flames. Another is seen from below. It is in D-Day striped paint and its left engine has been hit and partly torn off. Next, it is seen rolling over and headed down with flames and smoke coming from its left side.

Location: Germany
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036271
Interview of Capt. William S. Parsons, U.S. Navy, crew member on Enola Gay, after the Hiroshima atomic bombing mission

Setting: North Field, Tinian Island in Mariana Islands, South Pacific, almost a week after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima Japan, August 8, 1945, during World War II. Public Relations Officer, Major John F. Moynahan (not seen) is interviewing members of the Crew of the B-29, Enola Gay, from which the bomb was dropped. Here he interviews Captain William Sterling "Deke" Parsons of the U.S. Navy who was weaponeer aboard the Enola Gay, during the mission. and who now serves as Scientific Head of the Atomic Bomb Project in the Pacific Theater. Captain Parsons describes the events of the mission from their early morning departure through the actual bombing. He notes that the actual bombing went smoother than earlier practice missions.

Location: Tinian Island Mariana Islands
Date: 1945, August 14
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036277
Colonel Paul Tibbets, Pilot of the Enola Gay, describes his mission dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan.

Crew members of the B-29 Enola Gay are interviewed about their atomic bombing mission over Hiroshima Japan by the United States Army Air Force, during World War II. In this interview at North Field, Tinian Island in Marianas Islands, Public Relations Officer, Major John F. Moynahan (not seen) interviews Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., Pilot of the Enola Gay Among things Colonel Tibbets mentions, he recounts that he took a steep turn to avoid radiation from the explosion. When he saw the explosion he was surprised about its intensity. The cloud from explosion covered the whole city of Hiroshima.

Location: Tinian Island Mariana Islands
Date: 1945, August 14
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036278
Major Thomas Ferebee, the bombardier aboard Enola Gay shares his experience of the Hiroshima atomic bombing mission

Setting: North Field, Tinian Island, Marianas Islands. Major Thomas Ferebee, the bombardier aboard Enola Gay (B-29 that bombed Hiroshima) is asked about his experiences, by Public Relations Officer John F. Moynahan (not seen). He recalls - His navigator aligned him correctly with the target. Hiroshima was clearly visible to him and so he was able to deliver the bomb. (World War II period).

Location: Tinian Island Mariana Islands
Date: 1945, August 14
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036280
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