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Japanese high ranking officer awards honors Army and Navy officers in Japan.

Japanese Navy and Army officers receive awards from high ranking officer in Japan. Army and Navy officers bow in front of senior officer after receiving honor awards. Medals awarded to the officers. View of honor document.

Location: Japan
Date: 1940
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675043467
A group of Japanese college boys plays kendo on ice skating ring in Japan.

Japanese college boys play kendo (sword fight) on ice skating ring in Japan. Japanese boy skates with sword in their hand. A group of boys wearing special helmets and swords in hand plays kendo. They fall on ice skating ring. (World War II period).

Location: Japan
Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675043468
British soldiers help farmers plow and prepare fields, using BREN carrier to pull plow, during World War II.

British farmers tilling soil in United Kingdom. British soldiers use modified universal carrier to pull plow. A small child rides with operator on the tracked universal carrier. Another small child rides with soldier on a truck. Soldiers pitch hay. Two women join in to pile hay with pitch forks.

Location: United Kingdom
Date: 1940
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675043469
Scenes from East Africa involving British and Italian forces in World War II

Film opens with brief glimpse of a coastal city on the Mediterranean Sea. A mosque is the most notable building in the scene. A unit of Somaliland Camel Corps rides along a desert ridge. They pass behind a staionary British light tank. Change of scene shows a parked Italian communications vehicle being approached by another vehicle. An Italian soldier wearing a headset flags down the approaching vehicle and gives a dispatch to a soldier standing in the vehicle, which promptly pulls away. Next, A column of British Vickers light tanks Mk VI, are seen moving along in the desert. The lead tank is a command variant with special communications gear. Closeups of the tanks as they pass the camera. Next, they are seen at a distance.

Location: East Africa
Date: 1940
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675043471
Montage of Swedish military preparedness activities in World War II

Film opens with brief glimpse of Swedish soldiers (wearing M21 steel helmets) rushing to take positions in a defensive trench during World War 2. Scene shifts to infantry in combat gear, including shouldered blanket rolls, as they demonstrate ability to rapidly take up defensive positions. (Numerous automobiles parked in the background, indicating this is a demonstration.) Scene shifts to coastal defenses in Sweden, where heavy guns are seen firing from underground fortifications near a coastline. Swedish troops (wearing M37 steel helmets) firing a Browning M17 water-cooled machine gun from a protected position. Swedish troops (in M21 helmets) firing double-mounted Kulspruta m/36 water-cooled 8mm machine gun (modified Browning design dual mounted). Pattern of bullets splashing near floating targets offshore. Glimpse of a 29/33 M. 80mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun. Biplanes: Swedish J8 Gloster Gladiator MK I bi-wing pursuit aircraft seen flying low in formation over a grass field. Swedish T3 aircraft in formation. (These are Junkers Ju 86 K-13 aircraft built by SAAB, under license, and converted to torpedo bombers. They are flown by Swedish Wing F 17.) The pursuit planes stage mock attacks on the formation of T-3 bombers. Aerial closeups of a J8 in flight. Next, from very close up, one of the fuselage-mounted Browning .303 machine guns on a J8, is seen firing. Two of the bombers drop out of their formation and descend, as if they had been hit. (This is all a demonstration, carefully enacted.)

Location: Sweden
Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675043473
Natives worship Buddha and visitors observe statues of Buddha at a temple in Burma.

An animated map of Burma (present day Myanmar). Aerial view of Rangoon (Yangon). The gilded Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon. Small and big statues of Buddha at the Shwedagon Pagoda. Burmese worshipers kneel on ground, join hands, and pray in the temple. Large statue of Buddha with a painting on his feet. Visitors look at the statue.

Location: Burma
Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675043486
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