U.S. 4th Marine Division in Tinian, Mariana Islands during World War II. A Japanese prisoner comes up the side of a cliff, waving a white flag. Marines come up and frisk him. A child follows the prisoner. A group of Marines standing around a jeep. Some of them smoke. A Marine gives candy to Japanese children as they come up the side of the cliff. Women follow the children. The Marines and the children standing around. The women and the children continue uphill. A Marine drinks water from a canteen.
Dead bodies of the Japanese in Tinian, Mariana Islands during World War II. Body of a dead Japanese on the bottom of the cliff. Sides of a cliff. Jagged rocks and water at the bottom, showing where many Japanese committed suicide. A dead Japanese at the bottom of the cliff. Battered body of a Japanese baby on the ground. Dead bodies on jagged rocks. Dead body of a Japanese soldier.
Americans display (holding it upside down) a huge Japanese rising sun Vice Admiral rank flag , captured after a desperate "banzai" attack by Japanese forces on Saipan, during World War 2. A photograpner takes a picture. Ammunition left on the ground from the battle. Two knocked-out Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go tanks. Destroyed defensive positions and buildings. Americans examine remains of buildings and defensive positions. Several local civilians walk into the center of the scene of death and destruction. Dead Japanese soldiers are seen everywhere, throughout the sequence. (Note: Aftermath of the "Tanapag Plain banzai attack" on July 6th and 7th, 1944. Americans engaged included units of the 105th Infantry; 165th Infantry; 23rd Marines; 24th Marines; 25th Marines; 20th Marines; and 10th Marines.)
Naval and air battles in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Japanese attacks on USS Yorktown. Japanese aircraft in the sky. A flaming aircraft spirals downwards. An explosion as the aircraft crashes. Hurried activity of men aboard the ship as they dodge Kamikaze (suicide airplanes) attacks.
Naval and air battles in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Japanese bomb attacks on USS Hancock. Japanese aircraft in sky. Explosions aboard the ship. The whole ship is engulfed in smoke. Thick black smoke and bursts of flame rise from the ship. Men on the deck of a ship sailing past USS Hancock in the foreground. The ship engulfed in smoke.
Wounded Japanese troops visit the Yasukuni Shrine (3 Chome-1-1 Kudankita, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 102-8246, Japan) in Tokyo, Japan. Visitors commemorate the Japanese people killed on foreign soil in wars involving Japan since the Meiji period. A group of wounded soldiers (wearing white robes) leaves the shrine. The Imperial Seal of Japan, known as the Chrysanthemum Seal (kikumon), is displayed in front of the Yasukuni Shrine. A man in uniform accompanies the group of wounded soldiers. Soldiers put on their caps while walking. Two soldiers sitting near a window in a bus, watching a woman and a child near the window outside. Wounded soldiers get into buses. A woman standing at the gate of a bus bows as the soldiers enter the bus. (Note: the conflict creating casualties at this time is probably on the Manchuko border with the Soviet Union.)
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