German soldiers work at a camp with Hitler Youth during World War II. They show how to hold a rifle (with dummy model). The boys engage in tug of war with each other and then against group of the German officers.
Japanese fire fighters reenact fire fighting measures performed during World War 2. Firemen outside a factory in Tokyo, Japan, post World War 2. They run from building onto the street and man their fire fighting equipment and wheel. They approach a building where smoke is rising due to fire.
Japanese woman and children stand on a street near a U.S. Army jeep in Tokyo, Japan, soon after the end of World War II. The children sit in the American jeep. Japanese boy and girl children pose for the camera. Simple post-war houses and shacks seen in the background.
A double mouth fire plug used all over Tokyo, Japan. Buildings and houses in the background in post-war Japan. Small air raid shelters made of earth, wood beams and cross bars, seen soon after the end of World War 2. Japanese people including women, and men in military uniforms, walk on the Shinbashi Bridge along The Ginza Street, Chuo-Ward, Tokyo.
An animated graphic shows Japanese gunfire near Naha Okinawa pounding U.S. 420th Group artillery positions located on the small island of Keise Jima, near Okinawa. Also animation of the U.S. Navy Cruiser, USS Tuscaloosa, moving in to provide counterfire against the Japanese batteries near Naha. Actual views of U.S. warships provide a floating mobile artillery to support the ground troops. U.S. warships firing on Japanese artillery positions near Naha Airfield. Details seen include: At time 00:36, the battleship USS New Mexico, BB-40, firing a starboard mounted 5in/25cal gun. Time 00:40 is the battleship USS Tennessee, BB-43 in camouflage Measure 32v1, Design 1D earlier in the war. Time 00:52 is the battleship USS Colorado, BB-45, in camouflage Measure 32, Design 3D and in the background is the battleship USS West Virginia in camouflage Measure 32, Design 7D. (World War II period)
German soldiers fight in and around the ruins of Aachen in Germany during World War 2. A map shows places. Soldiers on an Sdkfz.250 Neue halftrack arrive on the war front armed with Panzerfaust recoilless antitank weapon and Assault Rifle. Wrecked buildings and houses near battle area. Soldiers walk on the field. They walk in the trench and fire a mortar (several running out of the trench before it goes off). Numerous close-up views of faces of German soldiers as they talk, move, or fire weapons at Allied forces.
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