A Japanese boy studies his textbook at home, during.World War 2 A Japanese schoolboy recites while standing up in class. Japanese actors dressed as samurais reenact sword battles. Japanese schoolboys play war games using toy rifles. Boys push toy artillery during a war game. Japanese boy cranks toy artillery to simulate firing. Japanese boys wear paper airplanes while playing as bombers. A Japanese girl gently opens a sliding door. Two Japanese girls bow to each other. A little girl learns to carry a plate. A Japanese woman teaches a little girl how to play a shamisen. Japanese girl plays the shamisen. Japanese teenage girls and boys perform mass calisthenics. Japanese high school students climb a Jacob’s Ladder and do various tasks onboard a ship during a naval training. Boys and girls march on field. They wave flags and sing.
April 1, 1946: “Operation “Road’s End.” View from the Destroyer, USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830) as it accompanies Imperial Japanese Navy submarines headed out of Sasebo Bay, headed to "Point Deep Six," (reportedly about 60 km west of Nagasaki and off the Gotō Islands) where they are to be scuttled by demolition charges and/or gunfire from the Larson or the USS Nereus (AS-17) (not seen). Captain Bell and Commander D.A. Mckee are seen on deck of the Larson with a Japanese interpreter who is issuing instructions to the skeleton Japanese crews through a megaphone. Views of the submarines underway.
Various Japanese ships hit by United States cruisers during Operation Road's End after WWII. Smoke and fire rising from the targeted ships. View of Japanese ships sinking.
Captured Japanese submarine sinks during Operation Road's End. USS Chicago (CA-136) in the background. Smoke rises from the submarine after it is bombed. United States PBM Mariner flies over. Japanese submarine sinks.
Biplane on catapult of Japanese Navy ship. Japanese sailors work around biplane. Three Japanese pilots talking aboard ship. Japanese seaplane flies over mast of the ship. The biplane on rough water surface. Pilot stands on forward part of the wing to hook it to the carrier crane. Sailors watch as Japanese carrier is docked.
Wake of Japanese battleship as it starts to get underway, during World War 2. Large anchor chain being pulled up through hawse pipe. Seamen wash the chain with brush and water. Windlass turning with anchor chain. Fleet of Japanese warships underway. Submarine Lifeline in foreground. Two Japanese officers on bridge. View of ship's bow and gun barrels.