Several trucks and automobiles carrying Japanese-Americans citizens are stopped and directed to the side of a highway, where policemen search their personal baggage (during time in World War 2 when the U.S. government was sending many Japanese-American citizens to internment camps or relocation centers). Police officers being directed by officials in civilian clothes, search open suitcases and other containers of clothing and personal items, laid out on the pavement. The Japanese American owners repack their suitcases after they are searched. One truck open stake truck is carrying many items of luggage and clothing rolled up and tied. These are all off-loaded and spread out on the pavement for search. A Japanese American woman stands near a 1937 Chevrolet 4-door sedan, in which children are seen looking out from the back seat. The woman helps a man roll up a bundle of clothes, as a uniformed policeman, nearby, searches another one. The woman and and two men repackage and tie the bundle with cord, as a policemen looks in the car trunk. More views of Japanese Americans with their luggage laid out on the pavement being searched. One woman has belongings tied up in a cardboard box labeled: "Sunland Biscuit Company, Los Angeles & San Francisco." Under direction of a civilian official holding a walkie talkie telephone, a policeman helps people load their belongings into an open truck after they have been searched.
Bombed buildings after the Battle of Berlin in World War II. Reflection of bomb damage in water. Wooden fences beside water. Unter den Linden boulevard with rubble. View of Neue Wache or New Guard (Unter den Linden 4, 10117 Berlin, Germany) royal guard house heavily damaged. Direction signs on road written in Russian. Pedestrians on road with luggage carts pulled by hand. Statue standing still sheltered partially by ruins of walls that used to surround it. Bomb damaged buildings along Unter den Linden. People and soldiers walk past the Berlin State Library (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 8, Berlin, Germany). An old man stands nearby.
4th Division U.S. Marines in final phases of the battle for Iwo Jima, in World War 2. U.S. marine walks across rocks with destroyed vegetation behind him. A demolition charge explodes in the rocks and several Japanese soldiers emerge to surrender. Scene shifts to a Japanese stronghold in a cave. A Japanese officer stands with a U.S. marine outside the cave. A Japanese defender emerges and talks with the Japanese officer, who then tells the marine there are two more Japanese soldiers in the cave. The marine helps the Japanese soldier out of the cave. Scene changes to another Japanese stronghold, where a marine throws a line up to another marine standing atop the rocky outcropping. Next scene shows a demolition charge exploding at the site. In a new sequence, four U.S. marines carry a wounded comrade and place his litter on the ground where another team picks it up and carries it. View from high ground of Mount Suribachi, seen above mist, on distant end of the island. A truck moving rapidly over a dirt road on the island.
Marines of the U.S. 4th Division in final phase of the battle for Iwo Jima in World War 2. Several U.S. supply ships off the coast. A U.S. C-47 transport airplane in flight overhead. U.S. marine with flame thrower strapped to his back, walking across rocky terrain. Closeup of Japanese 20cm rocket bombs; remains of primitive wooden launch trough; a threaded fuse; and a mortar shell with fins.
Marines of U.S. 4th Division explore remains of Japanese fortifications and weapons at end of the battle for Iwo Jima in World War 2. Remnants of a Japanese mortar shell with fins. A marine examines destroyed Japanese bunker and eqipment at a cave entrance. Exhausted marines resting at side of road and on rocks. View through a Japanese defensive position in a cave. Some marines moving out, past others still resting.
U.S. marines ot the 9th Marine Regiment, operating from the 4th Marine Division's zone of action, during later phase of the battle for Iwo Jima in World War 2. (Their mission is to sweep the last hostile troops from the ridge in the southeast corner of the 3rd Marine Division's zone of operation.) They move cautiously along extremely rough terrain on the ridge, to flush out any remaining pockets of Japanese resistance. A marine carefully scouts an area of large boulders and potential Japanese hiding places. Another marine is seen silhouetted atop the ridgeline. A marine hurries down from the ridge after placing a demolition charge. He hunkers down with several other marines sheltered just below the ridge as the demolition charge explodes raising brown smoke followed by white smoke. The marines then stand and cautiously approach the ridge.
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