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Japanese children at school in World War II

Japanese children attending school during World War 2. Japanese schoolchildren bow and greet their teachers “先生おはようございます。” (“Good morning teacher” in English). Japanese schoolchildren taking off their street shoes and changes into their uwabaki (上履き) indoor slippers in front of their assigned getabako (下駄箱) shoe cupboard. Children taking their seats inside their classroom. Outdoor shoes neatly arranged in wooden cupboard outside classroom. Japanese schoolchildren hold books during a reading lesson. A boy stands up to recite from his Japanese book. Schoolboy reads from a basic Japanese workbook. An illustration from the Japanese workbook depicting respect for the elderly inside a train. A girl stands up to recite from her book after being called. A bespectacled Japanese schoolteacher reads from book. Illustration from a Japanese book depicting people exercising together.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025253
Japanese biplane aircraft being docked by carrier crane.

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.

Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022298
Residential apartment developments east of Pennsylvania Avenue and near Oxon Hill and other areas outside Washington DC

1940s views of new housing units in the form of residential apartment buildings east of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. Apartments with parking garages under them across the South Capitol street bridge near the Oxon Hill area. A 1940s sedan car pulls into a parking garage under an apartment building. Next view is out Maryland Avenue and over Bladensburg Avenue to the northeast, showing apartments and other buildings in the Greenbelt area. Car traffic is seen driving through the University of Maryland campus. Apartment construction underway in areas near the University of Maryland. Construction of Colonial Village, with aerial and ground level views of the site. Traffic driving along the Mount Vernon Highway with the Potomac River beside it (later George Washington Parkway). Apartment building construction in Alexandria. Busy traffic scene of commuters arriving in Washington DC on a work day. People get on and off trolley car lines in Washington, D.C. Other commuters wait to board a bus. Late 1940s automobile traffic on street in Washington, D.C.

Date: 1949
Duration: 2 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073230
Scenes of Washington DC, and people working inside various Federal buildings and government offices in Washington DC (WW2)

A World War II documentary titled 'Boomtown DC', a part of 'This is America' series, compares Washington DC to an industrial boomtown where the big business is government. 1930's and 1940's cars parked along a tree-lined street in a Washington DC neighborhood with homes visible. A cat jumps down from a wall behind a neighborhood home, with the U.S. Capitol seen in the background. Scene changes to U.S. Capitol building exterior close up. Close up views of souvenir stand trinkets in Washington DC, including banners, snow globes, and postcards of buildings and monuments of the city. View on the National Mall in Washington DC toward the Lincoln Memorial, interrupted by temporary wartime elevated walkways erected between buildings of the rapidly expanding Navy Department on either side of the National Mall. Smoke stacks from the chimneys of a factory superimposed over various images of buildings in the city. A woman exiting a voting booth, followed by a man entering the same voting booth and closing the curtain. A US Army guard standing outside the White House. Exterior of the newly built Pentagon War Department building in Arlington Virginia. Sign "War Department" on the War Department building at 21st and Virginia Avenues. Exterior view of a Navy Department building, then exterior view of the Treasury Department building. Close up view of hands holding and flipping through a stack of IRS individual tax return documents, then of hands sorting through a stack of U.S. government bonds. View of the Justice Department, and then view of sign on the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Scientists in a laboratory operate various equipment and run tests. A scientist near some beakers and test tubes in the lab. Scientists look through microscopes. View of underground rifle range in the FBI building as personnel practice marksmanship. View toward shooters on the range during firing, and toward targets. US Army guard in front of the State Department building. Exterior view of the Department of Labor building and sign. View of the U.S. Office of War Information building (OWI) with sign "US Information" inscribed in large letters on the top of the building (possibly the "Temporary V Building" of the OWI?) Exterior view of the Supreme Court Building. View of Declaration of Independence document on display. Exerior view of U.S. Capitol, then view of House of Representatives in session. U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt seated at a desk signs a document. Citizens and workers walking on streets of Washington DC. Sopme people enter the Department of Agriculture building. Men and women enter the Office of War Information. Civilian and military hats being hung on a hat rack. Hand reaches for a 1940's era telephone. Women filing papers, views of filing cabinets. Close-up of 1940s era typewriters in use.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076698
The United States helps supply food and industrial expansion in Japan.

Industrial expansion of Japan with the help of America, after the end of World War 2. Food supply through sea in Japan. Oarsmen row wooden fishing boats. Mountains in the background. Japanese fishermen cast their nets. America helps Japan in industrial expansion. Japanese silk mill and textile industry. Japanese shipyard and ship building activity. Japanese production of automobiles and railroad train cars. Exterior view of Dai-Ichi Seimei Building (1 Chome-13-1 Yurakucho, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-0006, Japan) which served as Supreme Commander Allied Powers (SCAP) headquarters (also called GHQ Building) in Tokyo Japan. American flags and United Nations flags seen flying at the building. Ships of U.S. Army preparing to transport U.S. troops from Japan for combat in Korea as Korean War starts. U.S. Army troops marshaled at Army Port of Sasebo, Japan, with their belongings.

Date: 1950
Duration: 3 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024875
U.S. defeats Japan in Pacific through air power in World War II; multiple views of American combat aircraft in action in World War 2

From "The Last Bomb": The defeat of Japan through American airpower in World War 2. Mix of actual combat footage and a small amount of vintage, dramatized, pilot in cockpit footage. A single B-29 from the 39th Bomb Group (stationed at North Field Guam) drops clusters of incendiary and fragmentation bombs over Japan. Bombs away view of large number of bombs falling toward Japan. A formation of B-29s from the 498th Bomb Group, Isley Field, Saipan, in flight during a daytime bombing mission over Japan. Explosions and smoke rise from targets in Japan, including two Japanese aircraft plants and an airdrome as part of U.S. tactical plan 574. Color, low aerial view of massive bomb damage over Tokyo following U.S. air attacks of March 1945. Escorting P-51s from Iwo Jima engage defending Japanese fighter aircraft in dogfights. Aerial gun camera footage of Japanese airplanes being hit, exploding, bursting into flames, and falling from sky to crash. Later, P-51s conduct strafing attacks against Japanese ground targets, including: lines of communication; railroads; marshaling yards; factories; airfields; ships; and harbors. Color gun camera footage shows these strafing attacks. P-51s returning to land at Iwo Jima and performing celebratory rolls over the field. Crippled B-29s making emergency landings on Iwo Jima. A B-29 from 500th Bomb Group with an engine shutdown. A B-29 from the 29th Bomb Group. Bad weather over runway at Iwo Jima forces a P-51 pilot to bail out over the field. A B-29 from the 6th Bomb Group ditches in water near beach on Iwo Jima. A B-29 crashes and bursts into flames during landing at Iwo Jima (all crew escapes.) Firefighters douse the flames with foam. Formation of B-29s from 39th Bomb Group returning to Guam after bombing mission over Japan. A B-29 crashing on landing and bursting into flames. Sole surviving crew member being carried on stretcher, as firemen and rescue teams work at scene. Formations of B-29s from 498th Bomb Group and 9th Bomb Group, in flight. Good color view from B-29 of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, which brought about the capitulation of Japan and end of World War 2. Large mushroom cloud rising into the air following atomic bomb explosion at Nagasaki.

Date: 1945
Duration: 15 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051973