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Japanese military attack Chinese positions during China Invasion

The Japanese military in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. Sea and buildings in the background. Ships at sea. Meeting of Japanese military officers including Imperial Japanese Navy officers and an aircraft pilot in flight gear. An animated map of Japanese positions and movements. Elevated sweeping views of a part of Canton, China. Fire burning in buildings of the Chinese city, as seen from ground level view. Smoke rises from building. Japanese troops walk on a street of city and interrogate a captured Chinese soldier. Japanese Prince Yasuhito tours the Canton combat zone. Signs of Japanese flag on a map. Japanese troops fire artillery. A collapsed Chinese building. Japanese artillery and tanks fire into the center of a Chinese town at close range. Japanese forces with machine guns and rifles fire at Chinese forces from behind a walled area. A Japanese soldier carries an injured comrade back to the Japanese covered position.

Date: 1938
Duration: 3 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675024834
Various scenes depicting animated maps of China, seaplane landing in San Francisco, and streets in Beijing

Flag of the Republic of China (ROC) flying. Map shows travel routes between West Coast USA and Shanghai or British colony of Hong Kong. A seaplane or flying boat takes off. Seaplane flying over Golden Gate Bridge. Chinese American women wave at plane. Aerial view of a palace, pagoda, and surrounding grounds in China. Animated map comparing the sizes of United States and China. Yankee clippers underway at sea. Map shows position of Canton (Guangzhou). View of Canton harbor from a ferry. View of ferry's rail. Map of Beijing, also known as Peking or Peiping. Streets and buildings in Beijing.

Date: 1937
Duration: 4 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040297
A signalman aboard a U.S. ship underway at sea sending blinker signal at night in the United States.

U.S. submarines at a harbor in the United States. A ship underway at sea off the coast of United States. Using signal lamp, Signalman aboard the ship is sending morse code blinker at night (though first dawn light of sunrise is visible). Low mountains in the background. Men aboard a boat underway. The sunrise view. (Unrelated: Clip ends with brief view of Kodak "china girl" for color timing. Lettering beside this "china girl" or "leader lady" indicates Kodak 79 ECO and she is wearing a 1960's psychedelic shirt or blouse)

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675075949
USS Pittsburgh (CA-72) enters harbor after being damaged by a typhoon in the China Sea.

Typhoon damage caused to the USS Pittsburgh (CA-72) in the China Sea. USS Pittsburgh heading into a harbor. Damaged bow shows bulkheads exposed to the sea. Guns in triple turret move on warship in foreground. Sailors handle lines as USS Pittsburgh ties up to another ship. Her Officers cross a gangway to board.

Date: 1945, June 10
Duration: 3 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053300
Lend Lease materials transported across the world by convoys of American and British ships in World War II

Opening scene shows Lend Lease military equipment covered with canvas, at a port in the United States, during World War 2. A B-26 bomber with wings removed outboard of its engines, is being maneuvered for shipment at a port in the United States. A Lockheed P-38 airplane is moved on a crane and then rolled along a pier toward the stern of the U.S. Light Cruiser, USS Phoenix (CL-46) which is docked there. Wings of a Curtiss SOC-1 Seagull scout plane can be seen on the Phoenix. Two more P-38 aircraft are rolled along the pier, past another Brooklyn class Light Cruiser at the end of the pier. (Her triple 6-inch gun turrets are noticeable.) Crated supplies are seen being lowered into ship cargo holds. An American M2 light tank being lowered from a crane. An American M3 Lee tank being secured in a ship. Numerous tanks in a ship’s cargo hold. Next, a convoy of ships carrying war materiel overseas is seen at sea. A U.S. Cruiser plunging through heavy seas. View from her bridge overlooking her triple gun turrets, as her bow is awash in waves. A formation of U.S. battleships, led by a Nevada class Battle Ship armed with twin over triple forward gun turrets. She is followed by what appears to be a modernized Pennsylvania class Battleship and other battleships. A British Battle Cruiser followed by another British warship. Various Allied battleships firing their heavy guns. Animated map tracing the “Lend-Lease” routes across the North Atlantic to Iceland, the British Isles, and Murmansk. Map also shows routes by sea and air to the West Indies, Brazil, and South Africa and West Africa, and then by air across Africa, to egypt and the Middle East. Other routes are shown to Suez, Iran, India, and China, as well as trans-Pacific routes to various places. American soldiers crowd the upper deck of a troop transport ship. A military chaplain conducts religious services aboard ship at sea. More views of ships in convoys. A U.S. Navy Kingfisher float plane in flight over the water. A barrage balloon aloft. A U.S. Navy Catalina PBY flying boat in the air above a fleet of supply ships in a vast convoy.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051755
Two A-7A Corsair 2s in formation flight over the South China Sea.

Operations of U.S. Navy A-7A Corsair 2 aircraft aboard USS Ranger underway in the South China Sea during the Vietnam War. Scattered clouds in the sky. The ship underway. A destroyer escort trails behind. Aircraft in flight overhead. Two A-7As in formation high above the clouds. Formation flight of the aircraft. The aircraft in flight over the clouds. Formation flight of the two aircraft and they break off. Aerial view of USS Ranger underway at sea. Aircraft in flight over water.

Date: 1967, December
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051009