United States bombers bombard Japan during World War 2. U.S. Army Air Forces Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers dropping bombs over Tokyo, Japan. View of Mount Fuji in Honshu Island, Japan. Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers of the 21st Bomber Command in flight. Aerial view of bomb dropping into a Japanese town. Industrial zone being hit by bombs. General Henry H. Arnold shakes hands with an officer in Washington D.C. A message written on a bomb. Message on the bomb reads “TO THE WARLORDS OF JAPAN WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN- THE B-29’S WILL REMIND YOU AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!!!”. Buildings in Tokyo, Japan. A map of Saipan. B-29 aircraft land at an airstrip in Saipan. B-29 take off for a mission. Bombs being dropped over Japanese town.
A film to honor and remember the men who served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. A log book entry of USS Franklin (CV-13). Crew on the flight deck of USS Franklin in the Pacific Ocean. Fueling crew in red shirts, aircraft directors in yellow shirts. Men who load armor and aircraft in blue shirts. Men are reviewed by the executive officer. After the inspection men leave for their work. Aircraft taxi on the flight deck on 20th February, 1945. Aircraft of Air Group 35 and 75 take off. Aircraft in a formation flight. Aerial view of the Naval Air Station at Kanoehe, Hawaii. A ship loaded with supplies. Supplies loaded on trolleys. 'Outrigger Canoe Club' at a beach. Fliers on the beach. They sunbathe and enjoy rowing. Sailors board USS Franklin. The ship underway at sea to rejoin task force 58. Escort vessels sail alongside. Aircraft in flight overhead. The ship heads towards Ulithi island. A log book entry. A fleet of ships near Ulithi island. Carrier Hancock in the fleet. The fleet sails towards the island of Honshu, Japan.
U.S. Navy 3rd Fleet ships fires on coastal targets of Kamaishi, Honshu, Japan during World War II. First and second turret guns of USS South Dakota (BB-57) fire at enemy target. USS Massachusetts (BB-59) and USS Indiana (BB-58) underway, fire broadsides on coast of Kamaishi, Honshu. Smoke columns rise from 16 inch shell hits. BB (battleship) squadron retires from Japanese mainland.
Lieutenant General Robert L. Eichelberger visits 11th Airborne Division installation in sendai,Honshu in Japan. He reviews an honor guard and speaks to Japanese dignitaries.
Lieutenant General Robert L. Eichelberger arrives at an installation, camp Schimmelpfennig, in Sendai, Honshu in Japan. He inspects the camp and then leaves the area.
American prisoners of war being interviewed at a Japanese prison camp in Honshu, Japan after World War II. A U.S. officer interviews a prisoner who was liberated from a Japanese prison camp. The prisoner says they he was brought to the prison camp from Taiwan and he basically belongs to Seattle, Washington. He says that he came to fight against the Japanese in the Philippines where he was taken a prisoner. He gives an account of the treatment meted out to the prisoners at the camps. He talks how brutally the prisoners were treated. He recounts an incident of execution of few prisoners.
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