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Prisoners of war return home and casualty group board hospital train at RR station in England (WW2)
Allied prisoners of war return home in England during World War II. Casualties are brought on stretchers at at railroad station. They board hospital train at rail station. British give cigarettes to wounded soldiers. Soldiers with their belongings board train. Several hold up hands with the "V" for victory symbol.
Prisoners of war return home and casualty group get into Red Cross van in England (WW2)
Prisoners of war return home in England during World War II. British and Canadian casualty groups leave railroad train. Casualty group with their belongings. Soldier band plays instruments. British and Canadian soldiers get into Red Cross van. Van drives off.
General Eisenhower as a World War II officer and as the U.S. President.
Scenes from life and career of Dwight D Eisenhower, 34th President of United States. U.S. Air Force plane lands and the President disembarks the plane in India, in 1959. He is greeted by the Indian President Dr Rajendra Prasad and other dignitaries. Emblem of 'Panama'. Sign of 'welcome Ike Crusader'. Large crowd welcomes Eisenhower. Motorcade goes through the city's street. Milestones in General Eisenhower's life and the international esteem with which he is held. Lt Col Eisenhower concerned about U.S. isolationism in 1940 as World War 2 is underway. Explosions in Europe due to bombing by German aircraft. Eisenhower and other officers in the General Staff study a map. Eisenhower plans the strategy as the commander of Operation Torch (he is shown talking to General George C. Marshall and Winston Churchill). President Eisenhower visits 4 continents and meets several leaders. Large crowds welcome him. General Eisenhower prepares for D-Day Invasion of France during World War 2. June 5, 1944: The Allied forces including troops, artillery, equipment, ammunition, aircraft and ships prepared. June 6, 1944: The Allies invade Normandy. Troops wade through the water during D-Day Normandy beach landings, while under enemy fire. German soldiers surrender. May 7, 1945: Nazi General Alfred Jodl signs the unconditional surrender of his government. General Eisenhower returns to the U.S. He receives a hero's welcome in New York during a parade. He visits his hometown in Kansas. Pictures of his family, childhood and college days. Eisenhower on his visits to various countries as President.
Postwar democracy brings freedom of press, freedom of speech and land reform to Japan after World War 2
Newspapers being printed in Japan soon after end of World War 2. Newspaper printing press machines running. People gathered on streets, where some rubble and destruction from war is still seen. People assembling and speaking freely in public. Japanese work at Press office and publish the news about democracy. Newspapers published. People buy newspapers and read. People read the posters. Postwar land reform program redistributes land to Japanese farmers, most of whom, were formally only tenants They shovel, dig the soil and sow the seeds. They harvest the crops.
Japanese industry supplies UN forces in Korean War. Japanese Factories and Mills. Repairing damaged Military equipment
Sign reads 'Bid Room, P & C Div' and 'P R Pagliocca'. Japanese industrialist business men in suits seen receiving information about United Nations military needs so they can bid for contracts to supply them. View of Japanese industrial factories at work during rebulding of Japan a few years after the end of World War 2. Steel mill with Bessemer converter furnace tilting and firing, ingots ready for forging, hot steel ribbons being placed in wire mills. United Nations Military equipment being repaired in Japan during the Korean war.
Japan mobilizing for war
Scenes from 1930s during lead up to Second Sino-Japanese War, and World War 2. Narration by General of the Imperial Japanese Army Baron Sadao Araki. Opening scene shows a practice drill in which male emergency workers, in white uniforms, arrive by truck and assemble in a field, as hook and ladder fire trucks filled with firemen, arrive and turn into a circle. Glimpse of women nurses in white uniforms standing near a large Red Cross flag with Japanese writing on it. Scene shifts to traffic on a busy city street. Tnen a closeup of Japanese women in white garb, passing out leaflets to people. Boy Scouts at the corner of a building and Girl Scouts at another spot, solicit contributions for the troops. They use megaphones to get the attention of busy pedestrians. The girls hold baskets to collect contributions. Women in traditional Japanese garb stand on a street corner and encourage public support for Japanese soldiers, by knitting scarfs to be sent to them. Soldiers stand on a street corner wearing sashes and displaying a banner. More girl scouts (or uniformed school girls) soliciting support for the military. View from a high vantage point overlooking a bridge filled with pedestrians. Camera pans upward showing way into downtown. Japanese people attend a public display of airplanes at an airport in Osaka, where citizens have contributed to fund them. They crowd around two biwing planes. A woman bows at a temporary shrine set up honoring Japanese fliers. Closeup of airplane fuselage with writing on it. Quartering view from front of radial engine running on the airplane. Covered search lights sitting side by side. Anti-aircraft battery consisting of sound detection listening devices and guns. A Japanese army truck on display and then driving away. Closeup of an anti-aircraft searchlight. More views of sound detection devices. Air raid sirens. Two bi-wing airplanes. The one in foreground is equipped with a center ski. A Nakajima aircraft in flight overhead. A searchlight being demonstrated at night. Glimpse of firemen extinguishing a fire in a street, during exercise. Nurses and stretcher bearers in an emergency exercise. Soldiers remove signs from an army truck. Emergency workers in full protective gear, including gas masks, demonstrate and exercise emergency procedures using gas on a city street. A rifle being fired at a target. Girls lined up with rifles in prone position on a firing range. They stand up with their rifles. Riveters working on steel girders of a building under construction. Closeup of a hot rivet being installed. People traveling on motorcycles, cars, and bicycles. Feet of pedestrians walking on sidewalk. View from above of cars, motorcycles, bicycles, and pedestrians moving near an electric tram on a city street. Passenger railroad coaches passing the camera viewing from beside railroad tracks. A clamshell bucket unloading coal from a barge. Cargo in a net being unloaded from a ship to a dock. New automobiles driving on a Japanese highway. Trains moving through a rail yard with many rail lines. Japanese business commuters walking on a railroad station platform. Japanese Women working rapidly using headsets and manual phone plugs at a switchboard in a telephone exchange. A Japanese businessman using the telephone. A woman typing on an english typewriter keyboard. Construction workers using wrenches to bolt a steel part on a structure. Various kinds of machinery running rapidly. Hot steel being handled in a steel mill. Fires in furnaces and smoke billowing from factory smoke stacks next to numerous electric power lines.
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