Allied invasion of Iheya-Jima Island late during World War II. Allied troops aboard a Landing Ship Tank (LST) underway at sea. Other vessels underway with the coast in the background. Smoke rises as beach comes under heavy bombardment. Antiaircraft gun fired. Flak bursts and smoke rises.
Physical damage caused due to atomic bomb explosion in Nagasaki, Japan during World War II. Deaf and Dumb School, Catholic Missionary School, Urakami Cathedral, Nagasaki Medical Hospital, Nagasaki University. Electric transformer station. Substation with small arms in the background. Mitsubishi small arms plant with woodworking plant, lumber pool, Inasa School and casting plant as seen from across a river. A train moves in the background.
Damage caused due to atomic bomb explosion over Nagasaki, Japan in World War 2. A group of Japanese men and women laborers pass each other as they carry loads of scrap to the top of a rubble strewn stairway at the Nagasaki medical school. Two fire walls, their relative and original positions. The concrete foundation of the fire walls.
American soldier after being captured by North Vietnamese in Vietnam. A news bulletin shows a news anchor as he talks about Americans in Viet Cong prison camps. Carts move away from a village. Viet Cong soldiers patrol the village. An American soldier after being captured by North Vietnamese soldiers. (Vietnam War period).
Operation Phoenix in Vietnam. A news bulletin shows a news anchor with a map of south Asia in the background. South Vietnamese soldiers in a village as they question the local people. Soldiers move into a dense jungle. They catch hold of a VCI ( Viet Cong Infrastructure ) man and try to seek intelligence information from him. Soldiers torture the man and bury him in ground. (Vietnam War period).
Slate describes the Italian armed steamer, "Stromboli" carrying bulk cargoes of iron, steel, and nickel for the Italian war ministry, from Baltimore, U.S.A. to Genoa, Italy. It states that the ship was sunk and her crew released. View from deck of German U-Boat,U-49, under command of Captain Hans von Mellanthin. Several crew seen in conning tower. The single stack ship "Stromboli," stopped in the background. The U-49 approaches portside of the Stromboli, where a 7.6 cm deck gun is seen astern. An explosives technician, is dispatched by dinghy from the U-Boat, and boards the Stromboli. The U-Boat crew members obtain fresh water from the STromboli, before setting explosives to sink her. The German explosives technician is seen lighting fuses on deck of the Stromboli. The charges explode at her waterline. The U-Boat then fires its deck gun to hasten sinking of the Stromboli. View from the submarine as the Stromboli settles lower in the water and finally sinks stern-first. The location is off Capo Mele, (43.57N, 08.12E) in the Mediterranean Sea. Scene shifts to view from the U-49 deck during sunrise at Algiers.
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