An aerial view of Kiukiang, China during second Sino-Japanese war. An airplane engine starts up. Aerial view of flooded lands. Japanese-occupied town of Singtze in view. Warships outside Singtze on Lake Poyang. Branches off of the Yangtze River. Japanese warships underway at sea. View of the front lines, flooded areas and Japanese warships.
Chinese refugees quarters in Kiukiang, China during second Sino-Japanese war. Chinese refugees receive rice. People outside the Life Methodist Episcopal Hospital. Dr. Edward C. Perkins examines a patient at a clinic. The nurse, Miss Proeg, examines a refugee Chinese girl.
Japanese soldiers in Kiukiang, China (present-day Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, China) during Second Sino-Japanese War. An army and navy train pulled by armored car moves past on the rails. A Japanese soldier peers from the front window of the armored car. Men construct an army bridge under the direction of Japanese soldiers. They drive bridge piles. Japanese soldiers on a superstructure. Men at work. A Japanese soldier saws a tie. The soldiers aboard a train. Chinese coolies lay railroad ties. Japanese soldiers guard the coolies at work.
Re-enactment of an attack by a German U-boat on an Allied freighter underway in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. The German U-boat underway. German officers and men aboard the U-boat. A freighter ship underway. The ship is torpedoed on the U-boat Captain's order. Smoke rises from torpedoed ship.
Dramatized re-enactment of an attack by a German U-boat on a U.S. Merchantman underway in the Atlantic Ocean during World War 2. U.S. merchant seamen below decks as torpedo hits. Everything is shaken up and water enters their mess hall. The ship catches fire. Some seamen are thrown out of their bunks. All struggle to evacuate the lower decks. Fire breaks out. Radio operator telegraphs morse code for help. Seaman don life vests. The Captain orders a General Alarm for all hands on deck. Meanwhile, the Captain of the submerged German submarine orders another torpedo to be fired. it races through the water and explodes on impact. Fire is everywhere and the ship is listing. The U-boat surfaces and crew man their deck gun. From their lifeboat, the merchant seaman watch as a shell from the U-boat deck gun strikes the burning hulk of their ship. The U-boat steers, on the surface toward the lifeboat. The survivors exchange harsh words with the U-boat captain, as one of his officers photographs the scene. The U-boat then rams the lifeboat, cutting it in two. The survivors swim to a nearby raft.
Blend of Japanese newsreel footage and U.S. footage covering the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii triggering U.S. entry into World War II. Engine of a Japanese twin engine aircraft starts. View of Nakajima B5N (Kate) bombers with engines running, on deck of the Japanese aircraft carrier, Kaga. Editor-inserted scene of a Japanese pilot, carrying a katana (samurai) sword as he climbs on the wing of a land-based Mitsubishi B5M (Mabel) bomber and into its cockpit. Japanese B5N bombers taking off from the Kaga. Glimpse of Japanese naval officers. Japanese Aichi D3A1 "Val" dive bomber, with rear gunner, takes off from carrier. A dozen Japanese airplanes in loose formation overhead. Inserted scene, unrelated to Pearl Harbor, showing Loose formation of Japanese Mitsubishi G3M (Nell) medium bombers in flight. Closeup into cockpit cabin of a G3M. Bombs away view of bombs falling from the aircraft, as seen from the releasing aircraft. Pearl Harbor scene of bombs exploding on Battleship row. Japanese plane overhead. More explosions on U.S. warships in Pearl Harbor. Formation of Japanese Aichi D3A1 aircraft overhead. View from Japanese aircraft flying over hangar on Ford Island during Pearl Harbor attack. Bombs exploding on the island, below. Unrelated insert of Mitsubishi G3M bomber. Smoke billowing from bomb strikes on battleship row, Pearl Harbor. Japanese writing on photograph, identifies the U.S. capital ships struck in the Pearl Harbor raid.
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