A newsreel titled "Jap atomic equipment destroyed" shows United States occupation troops looking at Japanese atomic research equipment in Japan a few months after the end of World War II. U.S. Army officers and soldiers tour the Nishina Laboratory of the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, better known as the RIKEN Research Institute, at Komagome, in Tokyo, Japan. Laboratory director Dr. Yoshio Nishina is seen in the lab with the American forces. American soldiers are seen dismantling, destroying, and disposing of the the atom smasher cyclotron equipment. Occupation troops in an outdoor field rig demolition charges to some of the equipment and blow it up.
An animated map shows the eastern front cities in Russia. German StuG III Assault Guns and artillery advance to the eastern Transcarpathian Oblast as troops fire at enemy positions. (World War II period).
A map shows cities on the Italian front. German troops fire shells at enemy positions in San Marino. Smoke rises from the top of a hill. German officers read a map and discuss the strategy for the attack. Germans blast dynamite on trees to block the road. (World War II period).
Members of Hitler Youth, paramilitary organization of Nazi party, being reviewed by German Nazi national leader (Reichsjugendführer) Arthur Axmann in Germany in World War II. Axmann gives a speech to the members of the Hitler Youth. Axmann decorates the members with badges on their sleeves. Arm badge reads “Hitlerjugend” (“Hitler Youth”).
An enactment shows captured British soldiers being interrogated by an officer. One soldier gives only name, rank, and serial number even when threatened with stabbing. Another soldier accepts a cigarette from a German officer and inadvertently gives away the position of a mass gathering of British troops, resulting in their bombing. (World War II period).
Soldiers of 7th Republic of Korea Division fires at enemy position from a HOW gun mounted on a cart in South Korea, during Korean War. Gun being loaded with 16 FA and fires. Soldier removes an empty shell and puts in another one. A gunner looks through sight. Two men speak over the radio as they get firing orders. A soldier cleans the bore of HOW and wipes the breech block.
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