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Demonstration on assembling and directing Azon Bombs by the 7th Bombardment Group U.S. Army Air Force at a laboratory in Burma.

China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. A United States Army Air Force technician checks the working of control systems of an Azon Bomb at a laboratory in Burma. He fills in the 24volts battery, tests gyro, tests tuning receiver. He puts radio receiver, gyro and battery in the fin assembly. He measures the movement of the rudders on a scale.

Date: 1945, April 12
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036053
B-29 bombers of the 7th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Army Air Force fly after bombing targets in Burma during World War 2

China-Burma-India Theater during the World War II. Bombing on targets by the 7th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Army Air Force. Smoke rises high due to a explosion. A number of B-29 bombers of the U.S. Army Air Force flying in a formation.

Date: 1944, December 14
Duration: 2 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036054
B-29 bombers of the 7th Bombardment Group, U.S. Army Air Force land at base after bombing in Burma during World War 2

China-Burma-India Theater during the World War II. B-29 bombers of the 7th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Army Air Force land one after the other at their base airfield in India. Landing after completing their mission of bombardment at the railroads in Burma. Taxi jeeps and people near the runway are visible. Puff of dust emerges as a B-29 lands on the runway.

Date: 1944, December 12
Duration: 3 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036055
Surrender of Japan, ending World War II; imprisoned Japanese officials; German concentration camp scenes

View of first atomic explosion (Trinity) on July 16, 1945, at New Mexico, United States. View of the battleship, USS Missouri, in Tokyo Bay, Japan, with entire ship's company on deck in dress whites, Japanese military high command and several formally dressed Japanese diplomats standing on the ship's deck. Brief closeup of General Douglas MacArthur. Japanese foreign minister, Mamoru Shigemitsu, bending to sign the instrument of surrender ending World War 2, on September 2, 1945. Supreme Commander, General Douglas MacArthur, seated, signing the document. Lieutenant General Jonathan M. Wainwright and British Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival stand behind MacArthur. General Hsu Yung-chang signs for China. View of sailors observing the historic moment from every possible place aboard the ship. Large numbers of aircraft flying over the ship. Scene shifts in flashback to Manila, Philippines, where dead bodies of civilians litter the streets in silent witness of Japanese wartime atrocities. Some have hands tied behind their backs. Views of destitute Filipino mothers and children wandering through the rubble. A sign identifies the 98th Evacuation Hospital. Inside, a doctor and a nurse stand over the bed of Japanese Prime Minister, Hideki Tōjō, who attempted suicide by pistol, when apprehended, but was taken for treatment and is seen resting in his bed. View of Japanese Adrmiral Shigetarō Shimada, Minister of the Navy, behind bars in prison. Also seen in prison are Japanese general of the Japanese Imperial Army and Governor-General of the Philippines, Shigenori Kuroda;. General Masaharu Homma; and militarist Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto. Scene shifts to bodies of numerous victims of German death camps. American Army medics attend to some survivors rescued from the camps.

Date: 1945, September 2
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036366
United States' first National Arboretum in Washington DC with many varieties of plants, trees, shrubs and flowers

United States' first National Arboretum in Washington DC. The Arboretum has 60,000 varieties of various valuable plants, trees, shrubs and flowers some of which also have their origin in countries like China, Japan and Korea. Director of the Arboretum Henry Cardiff says these plants may have variety of uses as food, medicine and in other useful things. Botanical Scientist in the laboratory of Arboretum. Men and women visitors in the Arboretum observe various plants.

Date: 1990
Duration: 2 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036375
Mutual aids to one another by Allied nations under the lend lease program, fighting against Axis powers during World War II.

Charles Winninger narrates facts about the lend-lease and mutuals aids by Allied nations fighting against the Axis powers during World War II. Animated map shows Japanese threaten eastern coast of United States. British aid under the lend lease flies to U.S. German attack on Suez canal countered by British and U.S. Armies. Map shows timely aids allowed munition factories at work and new recruits joining the military. Australia and New Zealand aid the fighting Allied nations. U.S. warships to Russia in return to graves of German. Aid to China in return to the death of Japanese. Animation shows dropping of atom bomb and unconditional surrender of Axis nations.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036943