Wooden houses and buildings in Kyoto, Japan after World War II. Kyoto as seen from the roof of the Daimaru Department Store. Neatly and closely packed wooden houses. A modern-three story concrete building around which are built small wooden houses. More modern buildings as well as typical wood structures. Large chimneys of houses, roof tops and tree lined streets. Shijo Street shows modern brick and concrete structures two to seven floors high. Roof-tops of the houses. A modern five-story building. A view over the tops of the wooden houses. A very narrow street with tightly packed wooden houses on both sides of the street. Shijo Street shows modern buildings as well as typical wooden structures.
Wood frame houses around a large open fire break in Kyoto, Japan. Vaults (Kiura) which are all that remain after the removal of houses for the fire break during World War II. Vaults and mountains. Wood frame houses which were left intact. Mountains in the background.
U.S. Army Colonel Keith K. Compton, commander of the 376th Bomb Group in Libya, North Africa briefs his Army Air Force aircraft crews for the first Allied bombing mission against the Nazi German ME-109 (Messerschmitt Bf 109) aircraft manufacturing plant south of Vienna at Wiener-Neustadt, Austria, in World War 2. The map that Colonel Compton is using shows the air routes to and from the target. The mission will commence early the next day, on 13 August 1943. An unrelated scene shows U.S. Army and Army Air Force men conversing with an Australian soldier in a summer uniform.
U.S. soldiers work on a U.S. Army Air Forces A-36 Invader aircraft in Gela, Sicily, Italy during World War II. Damaged tail section of the A-36 aircraft parked on an airfield. U.S. troops inspect the tail section. A hut made up of straw. Two soldiers crawl in the hut.
A U.S. convoy readies to leave Oran, Algeria for the invasion of Salerno, Italy during World War II. A U.S. DD (destroyer) anchored off the shore. The shoreline of Oran. Two CLs (Light Cruiser) approach the shore. U.S. troops aboard the destroyer.
Nichols Field, Philippines, prior to World War II in the Pacific. Seversky P-35 pursuit plane parked with engine running. Pilots of the U.S. Army 17th Pursuit Squadron pose on and around a P-35 airplane. B-17 Flying Fortress bomber lands and parks. U.S. Army airmen walking around and examining the parked B-17. The number 21 and 5B painted on the tail of the B-17.
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