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Gadget being hoisted to top of tower for detonation prior to the Trinity Nuclear test in Alamogordo,New Mexico, United States.

Activities prior to the Trinity nuclear test conducted at Alamogordo in New Mexico during World War II. This is the day before the first ever atomic bomb test in history (the first ever detonation of a nuclear device). The plutonium core nuclear device nicknamed the "Gadget" being raised up to the top of the steel tower after final assembly. Men arrange drum shaped cushioning pads on platform, under the device, as the hoisting begins, and cover the pads with canvas tarps. The Gadget atomic bomb being hoisted to the top of a 20 meter steel tower for detonation early the next morning.

Date: 1945, July 15
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072463
Mushroom cloud rises up after the Trinity nuclear test at Alamogordo in New Mexico, United States.

The first detonation of a nuclear device in history. Trinity nuclear test being conducted at Alamogordo in New Mexico during World War II. Pitch black night is blindingly illuminated as the nuclear device sometimes nicknamed "The Gadget" is detonated in the White Sands Proving Ground, ushering in the "atomic age." Then the mushroom cloud of the atomic bomb explosion can be seen. Billowing smoke and fire fills the view.

Date: 1945, July 16
Duration: 2 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072465
Training and life of a Japanese soldier. Boyhood indoctrination; fighting in Nanking, China. American casualties in Marianas

Life and indoctrination of Japanese troops during World War II. Newspaper headline reads 'Germany Collapses'. People celebrate and have drinks at bar. Table with few glasses and a liquor bottle. A Japanese soldier lay dead. Japanese flag and Koinobori carp windsock on pole. Japanese boys being indoctrinated to militarism, marching, drilling, in organized play, with model artillery pieces. Young Japanese soldiers in regiment commencing Japanese assault on Nanking, China. Scenes of Chinese civilians suffering at hands of Japanese soldiers. Views of Japanese atrocities perpetrated in Nanking. Japanese ships underway to Mariana Islands. Dead Japanese soldier. American troops attacking Japanese soldiers holed up in jungles. Staged enactment of last surviving Japanese soldier in a cave, who, instead of surrendering, seizes pistol of his slain officer and attacks Americans with it. Actual scenes of American wounded soldiers being carried out of jungle on stretchers following a battle with Japanese forces. Vast numbers of Japanese soldiers parading. American military dead being buried at sea, with a scene of many caskets draped in American flags poised for release into the ocean during the ceremony. Clip closes with Anti-Japanese propaganda message on screen "Get the Jap -- And Get it Over" directed at U.S. soldiers viewing the film.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052672
United States troops landing and fighting with Japanese troops in Leyte, Philippines (WW2)

U.S. Third Fleet underway at sea, heads for Leyte in October 1944 during World War II. Warships fire heavy guns at Leyte. Ships advance under naval bombardment. Explosions on ship. U.S. troops aboard landing crafts. Japanese troops and defense during the barrage. They take positions and begin to attack. U.S. landing crafts attacked. Dramatic close up views of faces and expressions of many U.S. soldiers as they prepare for the invasion. U.S. troops leave landing craft and wade through water on to beaches. Japanese troops firing at incoming American forces with rifles and machine gun fire. American soldier raises American flag on island. Artillery fired and U.S. Army tanks advance. Wounded U.S. soldiers carried on litters. U.S. Army soldiers staying low and crawling on beach to avoid enemy fire. U.S. Army soldiers advancing, using rifle fire, hand grenades, and flamethrowers to attack entrenched Japanese enemy positions. Dead Japanese soldiers. Smoke arising from explosions in jungle.

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052674
Bomb disposal personnel disarm explosive head of Japanese baka suicide bomb in Okinawa Island (WW2)

Captured Japanese baka suicide bomb (Yokosuka Ohka; Yokosuka MXY-7 ), a rocket-powered, human-guided kamikaze attack-aircraft employed by Japan in World War II. U.S. troops and bomb disposal personnel in Okinawa Island. Bomb disposal personnel disarm explosive head of Japanese baka suicide bomb. Man look into tail and cockpit of baka flying bomb aircraft. Rocket tubes of baka lying in field.

Date: 1945, April 2
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052675
Japanese civilians loaded aboard DUKW (six wheel drive amphibious truck) on Okinawa and Nisei Japanese questions civilians.

Japanese civilian prisoners are loaded aboard dukw on Okinawa Island. U.S. Army troops lined up. Children and women aboard dukw. Japanese civilians carry loads of wood into a compound in which civilian internees are kept. Group of civilians seated around fire, bundled up for warmth. They drink in turn from canteen cup. They wear life preservers. Nisei Japanese questions civilians. Military Police watch as a Japanese solder is questioned (World War II period).

Date: 1945, April 5
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052676