A Japanese officer in uniform and three Kamikaze pilots in flight gear walk toward the camera during visit to a Shinto Shrine in Chofu, Japan, during World War 2. Trees in the background. The four men bow in unison.
Air raid shelters in Tokyo, Japan. Japanese children stand outside the shelters. Buildings in the background. Air raid shelters used as houses, and a grouping of tenement homes and shacks used by refugee families soon after the end of World War II in Japan.
U.S. Navy World War 2 training film about artillery in landing operations. Opening scene shows a marine reading artillery settings aloud. Then gunners load their 105mm howitzer and fire it. Next scenes show more howitzers in a field also firing. View of a control tent, where marines wearing headsets communicate with the howitzer batteries. The batteries receive the instruction: "CSMO" (Close Station March Order). Firing ceases and gun crews police up their positions and board jeeps to their command post. One the way, one marine sitting in the back of an MZ jeep, talks on a TCS radio. At the Command Post, several battery leaders meet over a planning table where they receive orders for an amphibious exercise. Amphibious vehicles (DUKWs) arrive, equipped with A-frames. Film shows how the A-frame is set up and employed to raise a howitzer. Then another DUKW backs under the suspended field piece which is lowered into its cargo space. Other guns and DUKWs arrive to repeat the process. Gunners are shown spreading a tarpaulin and placing it on their howitzer, in the DUKW, as extra protection against water. Other DUKWs arrive with the battery's howitzers and marines rig tarps on them as well.
The Battleship USS Colorado, practicing for the invasion of Tarawa, during World War 2. Gunnery officer outside on a bridge walkway wearing headset and speaking into a microphone. The 16-inch/45 main guns of the battleship USS Colorado, BB-45, seen rotating into starboard firing positions. The Colorado fires her 16 inch guns alternating turrets and barrels.
U.S. Capital ships practicing for the invasion of Tarawa in World War 2. A battleship fires her secondary battery of 5-inch/45 caliber (maybe USS Colorado, BB-45). Battleship, USS Maryland, BB-46, fires her main battery of 16-inch/45 caliber guns.
Column of U.S. ships at sea in Pacific Theater during World War 2. Battleship ahead is the USS Maryland, BB-46, ahead of her are three destroyers. Sailors on the USS Colorado (BB-45) stand near 5 inch/25 caliber gun position during practice firing.
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