Japanese aggression in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. People in the streets of China. Animated pictures show one Chinese out of every 5 people in the world. A page showing Chinese writing. A mariners' compass. A Chinese man at an observatory. A porcelain cutlery set on a table. A Chinese man places porcelain into a furnace. A man puts gun powder in a bowl from a mortar. Explosion in the bowl. Firecrackers burst. Chinese people celebrating a festival. A book titled 'Analects of Confucius'. A saying of Confucius reads “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others”. Statues and pagodas in China. Scenes of fighting. Japanese artillery fires and cavalry advances. U.S. flag flutters beside the Chines flag. Chinese troops on horses. Animated map of China. A book titled 'The Tanaka Memorial Japan's dream of World Empire'. Japanese Foreign Minister Baron Nishi Tanaka. Excerpted line of the book. Japanese military officers. An animated map of Asia showing regions which Japan wanted to conquer. Animated map shows Germany and Russia. Animated map showing Japan and China contrasts Japanese unity with Chinese disunity. Animated map shows China breaking into pieces. A scene of the Japanese Army.
The Republic of China establishes its wartime capital at Chungking (Chongqing), China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Animated map depicts areas of Japanese occupation and highlights cities including Lanchow (Lanzhou), Chengtu (Chengdu), and Kunming. It highlights Chungking (Chongqing) as the Nationalist Republic of China. Chiang Kai-Shek is seen leading a group of Chinese leaders as they walk through an arched gate in Chungking (Chongqing). A busy street with shops and apartment houses in a commercial district. Busy scene of pedestrians, cart traffic, and automobiles in the road center. Boats on the Yangtze River are seen below long steep steps leading up to the streets above. Houses along the cliffs. Chinese workers digging bomb shelters into the cliffs. View from inside a shelter being hollowed out of the rock. Back in the Japanese occupied area, a car brings a Japanese Air Force leader who addresses a large group of fliers at an airbase. Next, Japanese aviator crews are seen running to their aircraft from their camp on the airfield. They take off in Mitsubishi G3M bombers to attack Chungking (Chongqing). Nakajima Ki-27 airplanes take off from the field and join in large formations overhead. A formation of Chinese World War 1 era aircraft is seen in flight to engage incoming Japanese bombers. Japanese crew member in a bomber sees the Chinese fighters and gunners in the bombers get ready to fire on them. The Chinese fighter planes dive at the bombers but are intercepted by Nakajima Ki-27 airplanes flying cover. Dogfights ensue with Chinese aircraft being shot down, and the bombers continuing their way. Air raid sirens sound in Chungking (Chongqing) and people run to their shelters, including school children. Views of bomber crews at their stations and then of bombs falling with the Yangtze River below. Bombs exploding along the riverfront and inland, along the cliffs. View of machinery operating, and Chinese workers occupied in underground factories in Chungking (Chongqing). Fires burning throughout the city from the bombing, and Chinese fire fighters with hoses working to extinguish fires.
The Liberty L-12 engine. Scenes of its manufacture in American war plants. U.S. Air Service crews training in DeHavilland DH-4 aircraft. An airplane falling and crashed, with wreckage seen on ground. Head of the U.S. Army Air Service, General Patrick, and General Billy Mitchell, presenting medals to Captain Eddie Rickenbacker and other fliers of the U.S. Army 94th Aero Squadron, in France, during World War 1.
Stars and Stripes Handicap race in Chicago, Illinois. Horse War Minstrel on the track. Spectators in the stand. The race starts. War Minstrel defeats Seabiscuit to win the Stars and Stripes Handicap.
The greatest racing horse Man o' War 'Big Red' celebrates his 29th birthday in Lexington, Kentucky. Man o' War with his owner Samuel D. Riddle at a farm. He celebrates his birthday by romping in his faraway farmland pasture.
The role of USAF bombers, submarines and Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) in maintaining world peace especially in the Mediterranean, Vietnam and Berlin during the Cold War. View of formation of United States Air Force Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bomber aircraft flying overhead in a blue sky. View from low flying aircraft of a U.S. Navy Polaris submarine cruising in ocean waters. A USAF Intercontinental Ballistic Missile being raised slowly upward from a silo into a launch-ready position. View from ground of large number of American paratrooper soldiers dropping from sky and landing on a field, including wide views and close-up views of parachutes and paratroopers landing. A U.S. Army paratrooper organizes his parachute and equipment immediately after landing. Aerial view of U.S. Navy warships cruising in the Mediterranean Sea. View from inside a U.S. Army helicopter in flight in Vietnam. Soldiers observe terrain out open door. Sign "You are leaving the American Sector" seen at Checkpoint Charlie of the Berlin Wall separating West Berlin and East Berlin. American and Soviet soldiers seen on each side of the checkpoint. An American tank parked at the checkpoint. (Vietnam War period).
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