The Republic of China establishes its wartime capital at Chungking (Chongqing), China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Animated map depicts areas of Japanese occupation and highlights cities including Lanchow (Lanzhou), Chengtu (Chengdu), and Kunming. It highlights Chungking (Chongqing) as the new capital of Nationalist China. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is seen leading a group of Chinese leaders as they walk through an arched gate in Chungking (Chongqing). A busy street with shops and apartment houses, in the commercial district. It is filled with pedestrians, cart traffic along the curbs, and automobiles in the road center. Boatmen on the Yangtze River are seen below long steep steps leading up to the streets above. Views of houses clustered along the cliffs, and workmen digging bomb shelters into the cliffs. View from inside a shelter being hollowed out of the rock. Back in the Japanese occupied area, a car brings a Japanese Air Force leader who addresses a large group of fliers at an airbase. Next, Japanese air crews are seen running to their airplanes from their camp on the airfield and taking off in their Mitsubishi G3M bombers, to attack Chungking (Chongqing). Nakajima Ki-27 airplanes take off from the field and join in large formations overhead. A formation of Chinese World War 1 era is seen inflight, ostensibly to engage incoming Japanese bombers. Japanese crew member in a bomber sees the Chinese fighters and gunners in the bombers get ready to fire on them. The Chinese fighter planes dive at the bombers but are intercepted by Nakajima Ki-27 airplanes flying cover. Aerial dogfights ensue with Chinese planes being shot down, and the bombers continuing their way. Air raid sirens sound in Chungking and people run to their shelters, including many school children. Views of bomber crews at their stations and then of bombs falling with the Yangtze River below. Bombs exploding along the riverfront and inland, along the cliffs. View of machinery operating, and Chinese workers occupied in underground factories in Chungking (Chongqing). Fires burning throughout the city, from the bombing, and Chinese fire fighters working to extinguish them.
Jack Dempsey, former boxing heavyweight champion, makes ice cream cones from a big ice cream cone, possibly the world's largest one, for orphan children of Protestant Home in Brooklyn. Children eat coned ice cream. Jack Dempsey and an orphan child eat coned ice cream.
Tattoo artist marks Social Security Number on a woman's thigh at Burton's Amusement Arcade. The tattooing expert then marks the Social Security Number of a man on the bottom of his foot.
U.S. army recruits two giant boys one is six feet five inches tall where as the other is six feet six inches tall at Fort Totten. Both boys are recruited for the 62nd Coast Artillery. Two average soldiers of the 62nd Coast Artillery pose with the two tall boys. Both tall boys lift the two soldiers. A soldier gets up on the car. The two soldiers take measurements with a tape of the tall boy. The tall boy lifts one of the soldiers.
Blaze of fire sweeps over the dry grass and shrubby undergrowth in Farmingdale. Aerial view of the fire that threatens the homes of the community residents. Thick smoke billows upwards.
Employees of the Aricraft Hosiery mill on strike in Philadelphia. Employees of the plant clash with the police. Police arrest several employees. Police take the arrested employees in a Police van away from the labor dispute.
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