Japanese military operation in World War 2. Japanese writing on map. Formation of Japanese Kawasaki Ki-56 (Thalia) transport planes fly over Celebes, Dutch East Indies. Explosion over the mountains. Aerial views show the smoking ruins below. Japanese paratroops parachute downward. They assemble and go into action. They fire a field gun. The Japanese Navy flag. An officer gives orders.
Rangoon, Burma, under Japanese occupation during World War 2. Japanese propaganda film states, in Japanese, that Volunteer Corps is building a 'New 'Burma,' and that Volunteer corps training illustrates how people can enjoy and manage their freedom from the British. Burmese gather at open market in front of a hotel in Rangoon. Words "On Look Hotel" appear along with Japanese lettering on the hotel front. Several Japanese soldiers mingle amongst the crowd at an open market. All manner of foods and goods being sold. Women display fabrics. Crowd gathered in grandstand of stadium to watch Volunteer Corps training and parade. Shwedagon Paya (Pagoda), Buddhist temple seen in background. Japanese officer stands on steps and salutes as Volunteer Corps pass in review. Their most notable weapon is a machine gun mounted in a wagon.
"Bombing Raid on Port Darwin". An animated map with Japanese writing shows course of Japanese Air Force bombing mission (probably from Poeloeti-Penfui Airfield, West Timor) against Port Darwin, Australia, during World War 2. Japanese Mitsubishi G4M "Betty" bombers taking off on the mission. Airmen on the field wave their hats at the departing planes. View from nose greenhouse of a bomber breaking ground on takeoff. Formation of G4Ms in flight. View inside, of pilots in cockpit. Pilot holding control yoke. Japanese writing on cloth fastened near right cockpit window.Crew members eating lunch en route in flight.
Japanese troops and their advance during World War II. Animated map. Captured weaponry. Destroyed American aircraft. Chinese alphabets. An officer explains the map to military personnel. Military personal seated listen about the economic goals of peace and prosperity of the Empire. Japanese indoctrinate Chinese civilians.
U.S. Army Air Forces issue flyer's A-3 bag is seen with 5th Air Force patch on it. Armed American troops descending from C-54 transport upon arrival at Tachikawa Airfield, near Tokyo, Japan after World War II. Air Transport Command (ATC) insignia on fuselage of aircraft. Wooden Control tower with sign "Tokyo Base Operation, 3rd Airdrome Squadron". Several red Japanese fire trucks in a row at edge of tarmac, along with two liquid tank trucks and 7 brown Japanese cloth top automobiles marked with crosses on their fenders. A C-47 is parked in background. American soldiers in full combat gear walking across the tarmac. American soldiers, who just arrived in C-54 transport aircraft, line up and collect their baggage from bottom of the aircraft.
Film begins showing a Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-67 bomber parked in the grass at a Japanese airfield right after the end of World War II. American fighter aircraft fly overhead. Camera pans around the Japanese bomber with closeup of its engines. View from the rear showing its twin tail. Next, the camera focuses on a Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-67 medium bomber showing it from a tail view. The camera pans around the aircraft and then to many other multi-engine aircraft parked all over the field. Camera takes closeup of another Mitsubishi Ki-67. Film ends as a U.S. Army Air Forces C54 transport plane flies overhead.
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