Japanese submarine I-203 torpedoed by USS Caiman (SS-323) in the Pacific Ocean, as part of a live-fire exercise, post World War 2. A periscope view of the Japanese submarine underway. A huge explosion and the Japanese submarine sinks.
A Japanese submarine torpedoed by USS Caiman underway in the Pacific Ocean. A periscope view of the Japanese submarine as it explodes after being torpedoed. Smoke from the explosion. The submarine sinks. A part of the damaged submarine floating in water.
A Japanese submarine torpedoed by USS Caiman underway in the Pacific Ocean. A periscope view of a submarine underway on the surface of water. The Japanese submarine is hit by a torpedo from a U.S. submarine. A huge explosion is caused. The submarine sinks.
People and children walking on a snow-clad road. Area around the Berlin Tiergarten with jeeps and car parked on the road. Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor) seen in background. Black market crowd seen in front of the Reichstag- the seat of the German Government in Berlin. Policeman directing the traffic. Soldier trying to click the picture of Russian War Memorial. Russian soldier bartering with a German civilian in post World War 2 Berlin.
U.S. War Department film showing devastation from atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War 2. Opening scene is darkness of predawn in Alamogordo, New Mexico, on 16, July, 1945, at 5:29:45 AM. Suddenly, a huge explosion lights up the sky. A fireball and mushroom shaped cloud form. Closer view of the explosion from another camera. Following the initial explosion, the ensuing sound is a continuous roar. Another view is shown, from a third camera location. It highlights the boiling fire and smoke of the explosion. These scenes document the first successful test of a nuclear weapon, code named "Trinity". Change of scene shows glimpse of the Manhattan Project B Reactor site at Hanford, Washington, as viewed from a car driving past. Closeup of the facility, from right up against a boundary fence. Glimpses of other Manhattan Project facilities in New Mexico, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and another view of the Hanford, Washington facility. Next, a rough topographical map of Japan is shown. Closeup of elevated railroad train traveling in Hiroshima, Japan. Imperial Japanese Army motorized vehicles are shown on parade, including fully tracked open personnel carriers with soldiers aboard and Type 94 Tankettes being driven by individual soldiers. Japanese infantry marching in full field gear including shouldered rifles with fixed bayonets. Closeup of a Japanese Army officer. Glimpse of Japanese support troops, such as quartermaster elements, in black uniforms. Japanese technicians in white lab coats at a wartime facility. Japanese Navy Warships being launched from Hiroshima ship yards. A lone B-29 bomber seen in flight over clouds. Its tail number, 42-63735 is clearly seen. It displays a large "05" on it upper tail. (This is not the "Enola Gay" whose tail number was 44-86292.) Closeup of one of the aircraft's engines with propeller turning. Glimpse upward from interior of the aircraft. Scene shifts to aerial photograph of Hiroshima with overlay depicting the bomb strike zone. Animated map showing explosion and precise point ot detonation above the junction of the Motoyasu and Ota Rivers. A view at the ground of destruction from the atomic explosion. An American soldier stands in the midst of the destruction. Slabs of heavy concrete are destroyed. View looking East from ground zero, past a burned tree trunk in the foreground, where the shells of several stronger buildings still stand amidst a sea of rubble. To the South, hardly anything is left standing. Looking West, everything is essentially leveled.
Ruins and devastation caused by the atomic bomb explosion in Hiroshima, Japan during World War 2. Members of a United States mission inspect the ruins. Effect of the ruins on the Russo-Japanese War Memorial. Trees in the field destroyed due to the explosion. Rubble and ruins in the city. Wrecked houses and buildings. A destroyed statue amidst the city. Damaged Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall with Motoyasu Bridge in the background. People walk on a street.
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