Hand signing a war bond application document. A woman nurse of the U.S. Army emerges from a sleeping bag during World War II. Two smiling Army nurses waving in front of the camera. A Women’s Army Corps (WAC) female instructor holds a model aircraft during a class for women in the Women’s Army Corps. Views of WAAC women at work at a training center. Women at desk doing compilation, women at typewriter. A hand fills out an application form to pledge war bonds. Animation depicts the globe from east of the Philippines, crossing the Pacific Ocean, to the United States. Bundles of United States Savings Bonds and other bonds. Women sorts out war bond letters in various baskets. Women working behind typewriters. Women working in a facility that issues war bonds to Americans. A $25 war bond issued by the United States Savings Bond. Women filing paperwork at the War Bond Office. Printing press prints war bonds en masse. Women sorting war bond mail to soldiers. A postman delivering war bonds to a woman. Service star banner in window. A girl holds a bunch of war bonds in her hands.
U.S. Military Police (MP) in Vietnam. View from a Military Police jeep en route on a street. MPs of the 504th MP Headquarters patrol the highway. Jeep passes row of bars. The MP halts in front of a bar. Two MPs enter and leave the bar.
A passener airplane crashes in East River in New York, while en route from Boston to New York. A boat and a helicopter come to rescue passengers and crew. A wing of the plane seen in the river.
P-38, of the U.S.Army Air Forces 14th Fighter Group, raises dust as it taxis close to the camera on Telergma airfield in Algeria, North Africa. Several 3-plane flights of P-38s take off, join up in formations, and fly overhead. A series of views, from inside a P-38, of others in formation as they fly over North African territory en route on bombing mission to Sicily, Italy, during World War 2.
View from window of railroad car as a train runs alongside the Susitna River in Alaska. ('Probably south of Curry en route to Wasilla and Anchorage.)
Background information for United States occupation forces in Japan after end of World War II. At start, the film shows sky filled with U.S. Navy airplanes flying in formations. They include Vought F4U Corsair aircraft, among others, and are seen overhead above the Battleship USS Missouri (BBB-63). Closeup of the USS Missouri with her crew in formation on deck wearing dress whites. Next, General Douglas MacArthur is seen and heard speaking from a podium on the Missouri's deck. He invites the representatives of the Emperor of Japan, and the Japanese Government, and the Japanese Imperial headquarters, to sign the instrument of surrender. The date is September 2, 1945, just after the end of World War 2. Closeups of the Japanese delegation, which includes envoys Foreign Minister Mamora Shigemitsu and General Yoshijiro Umezu, and of MacArthur. Japanese Foreign Minister Mamora Shigemitsu sits at a table. Closeups of him signing the surrender document. Change of scene to Japan, where camera pans over many thousands of Japanese people assembled to learn of their fate. Closeups of Japanese soldiers and family members, as Narrator asks how should the U.S. occupying force treat them. View of soldiers in plain non-military uniforms. Views of Japanese responding en masse to a leader, during World War 2. Views of child victims of the war. Closeup of Japanese soldier firing a short barrel light machine gun. Views of Japanese pedestrians including families, most in western dress. Japanese workers in an office. Film shows artists view of one worker's brain, and then many brains, as Narrator refers to need for reorienting Japanese thinking. View of learned wise Japanese leader at a podium. View of a Japanese soldier posed with his sword above the head of a war prisoner. Japanese mother feeding her baby. Closeups of Japanese babies. Closeups of Japanese school age children, in a group, and some doing things in school, and some at a playground. Group of uniformed Japanese students studying the art of Japanese calligraphy. Students doing artwork, studying nature outdoors, and paying attention to a teacher using a black board to explain how to calculate volumes of different shaped vessels. Students in classes of Geography and of geology. Japanese chemists, architects, and lawyers at work. Telephone switchboard operators at work. Electrified train moving on a track.
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