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Japanese propaganda film shows air attacks by Japanese forces on American targets at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941.
Japanese propaganda film during World War II, aimed at American audiences. Japanese narrator speaking in accented English. Air attacks over Hawaii: Name of Countries shown over map. Map shows Hawaii as a target. Japanese fleet at sea on the way to Hawaii. Japanese ship commanding officers confer. Japanese pilots ready on flight decks receiving final instructions and then boarding Japanese aircraft including Aichi D3A "Val" dive bombers and Nakajima B5N "Kate" torpedo bombers. Bombers take off from flight decks. Japanese planes in flight over host Japanese carriers, on the way to bomb American targets. Bombers attacking Luke Field and targets on Ford Island in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Views of Pearl Harbor attacks from the air, in cameras mounted on Japanese aircraft. On screen text: "US pacific fleet annihilated". Pearl Harbor is bombed. Explosions over targets. Smoke rises from targets. Narrator tallies American losses of battleship, airplanes, hangars, and human casualties. Japanese ships at sea. Narrator boasts that the retreat of America and Britain from East Asia is imminent.
Various views of Japanese military and civil headquarters in Hsinking, Manchuria.
The Japanese occupation of Manchuria. An animated map showing East Asia- Japan, the Korean peninsula, China, and Manchuria. The Japanese flag flies in Hsinking, Manchuria (present-day Changchun, China). A truck driving on a road in Hsinking. A building under construction. Kwantung Army headquarters in Hsinking. A Japanese Kwantung Army official (probably Hideki Tojo) stands outside the headquarters. Exterior of headquarter. Helicopter parked on field. Military personnel stand near the helicopter.
Montage of scenes related to the China-India-Burma theater during World War II
Two U.S. Pennsylvania class battleships underway at sea, with other warships in background, during World War 2. One fires to starboard with her 14-inch guns from the forward triple turrets. U.S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bombers flying in formation over mountains. Glimpse of General Douglas MacArthur with General Joseph (Vinegar Joe) Stilwell in gunner's station of a bomber. Montage of brief glimpses showing U.S. forces engaging Japanese forces in: amphibious assaults; firing weapons in New Guinea and other Pacific islands. U.S. warship firing naval guns. U.S. ship firing at attacking Japanese aircraft, with sky full of black flak clouds. Admiral William (Bull) Halsey. Mitsubishi A6M Zero kamikaze aircraft blown up close to flight deck of U.S. aircraft carrier. It misses the ship and crashes in flames, exploding in the water, astern. U.S. General Joseph Stilwell, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, British Allied commander Lord Louis Mountbatten, and Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, photographed together in India. Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek seated for a picture with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Camera moves back revealing British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, also seated. Behind them stand key allied military leaders, including (from the right) Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, Commander-in-chief in India; Admiral Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander of South-East Asia forces; George Giffard — commander of Eleventh Army Group; U.S. General Daniel Isom Sultan, deputy to General Stilwell; General Joseph Stilwell, Commander China-Burma-India (CBI) Command; and General Albert Coady Wedemeyer, Chiang Kai-Shek's Chief of Staff. General Joseph Stillwell is seen stepping from a military cargo plane, and being greeted by another officer. Stilwell is wearing a campaign hat. He has the CBI patch on his jacket shouder. A B-24 Liberator bomber takes off from a Chinese base at Liuchow, or possibly, Luiliang, China. (ostensibly carrying Chinese soldiers to India for training). U.S. marked P-40 aircraft are parked beside the runway. They display the shark teeth nose art of the Flying Tiger All volunteer Group of Claire Chennault. But this is 1944 and the aircraft are from the U.S. 23rd Fighter Group. Chinese soldiers are seen being armed and trained in India, with modern small arms. They are also seen fording a river with military supplies and moving in jeeps through jungle-like settings. Various views of Ledo Road construction in Burma. bulldozers, trucks, caterpillar tractors, explosives and men are shown in construction work. A jeep rides along a muddy section of the new road while U.S. and Chinese soldiers patrol on either side to protect it. Allied soldiers firing a small field piece. A C-47 aircraft airdrops supplies to the road builders. General Stilwell, standing with a Chinese officer, looks skyward at the aircraft. A C-46 Commando plane taking off from a field in India carrying supplies. Men loading a jeep aboard a C-46, plus ammunition and other supplies. Rare sight of supplies being loaded into nose cargo compartment of the one-of-a-kind XC-108A transport plane (modified B-17 bomber, tail number 41-2593). A formation of USAAF C-45 transport aircraft flying "over the Hump." Chinese P-36 Hawk aircraft in formation demonstrate firepower. Newly trained Chinese pilots marching and walking on flightline where solid-nose B-25s and P-40s are parked. Chinese and American pilots wave to each other from their P-40 aircraft. A B-25 takes off flanked by two P-40s. Bombs being dropped by Chinese B-25s. Japanese ship being strafed by Chinese fighter plane. Chinese laborers at work building an airfield without machinery. A large group pull a paving roller by hand. Chinese troops in combat with Japanese forces. One firing a Czech ZB vz. 26 light machine gun. Madame Chiang Kai-Shek addressing the U.S. Congress, 18 February, 1943.
American prisoners of war attend a prayer service at a Church in Vietnam.
American prisoners of war in Vietnam. A news bulletin shows an anchor with a map of South East Asia in the background. American soldiers taken as prisoners by North Vietnam enter a church and take their seats. A priest conducts a service. Numbers on the shirts of the men. They attend the prayer service. Men receive the holy communion at their seats. The prisoners sing hymns at the prayer service. (Vietnam War period).
South Vietnamese soldiers take away body of Viet Cong soldier during the Vietnam War.
News bulletin shows news anchor with a map of South East Asia in the background. Scenes in Vietnam: A helicopter in flight. A South Vietnamese soldier sits at the door of the helicopter. It lands. South Vietnamese soldiers get off the helicopter. They move across a field. Soldiers advance and then fight against Viet Cong men. An explosion occurs. South Vietnamese soldiers find an enemy Vietcong soldier, injured, and one kills him with his knife. Soldiers look at dead Viet Cong soldier as he lies in the field and remove nearby weapons. Men carry the body away. South Vietnamese soldiers walk across a stream of water. The water rises up to their waistline.
North Vietnamese prisoners play and relax at a prison camp in Vietnam during the war.
North Vietnamese at a prison camp in Vietnam. A news bulletin shows a news anchor with a map of South East Asia in the background. North Vietnamese taken as prisoners at a prison camp in South Vietnam. The prisoners in a group. Men play sports and learn guitar. A patient being given blood plasma. The prisoners play table tennis at the camp. Patients on cots at a hospital. The news anchor talks about the prisoners at the camp in South Vietnam.
