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Fire and heavy smoke rises from targets strafed by aircraft of U.S. Army Air Force around Tarumizu in Kyushu Japan

Gun camera footage of U.S. Army Air Force 19th Fighter Squadron, 318th Fighter Group Aircraft commanded by a Captain Vogt, strafing target buildings and ships in area of harbor at Tarumizu in Kyushu Japan. Fire and explosions on bay area of the Island. Heavy smoke rises. Aircraft strafes over open field areas and factories, and then strikes ships in harbor. 34th Fighter Squadron Aircraft drop bombs over harbor in Kyushu, Japan. Fire and explosions on bay area of the Island. Heavy smoke rises. Aircraft strafes over open field areas, houses on ground. Tracers fired on Japanese ships on water surface. Fire and explosion from the ship. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, August 5
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023197
Japanese planes bomb United States Navy ships in Philippines.

Heavy road rollers working to level a new captured airstrip on Leyte Island during World War 2. U.S. soldiers work laying down Marston Matting. General MacArthur and General G C Kenny visit base near Tacloban on Leyte, Philippine Island and inspect the Marston mat effort. Good views of low flying P-38 Lightning aircraft in flight just above the airfield. Japanese bomber aircraft is fired upon by forces at the airbase. View of aftermath of bombing on Air Base, with destruction seen. Japanese planes attack a supply depot and destroyer ships. Views of several Japanese kamikaze attack aircraft flying toward U.S. Navy ships in Leyte Gulf and being shot off course. A Japanese Kamikaze aircraft crashes into a landing craft infantry (LCI).

Date: 1944, October 31
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023529
Tests of Vierstabers rockets at lakes in Germany

Vierstabers rocket standing on its four legs on Lindwerder Island in Lake Tegel, Berlin. Men gathered around as the rocket is being fueled. Fumes from condensation seen. The rocket is fired and rises a considerable distance in the air before falling into the lake. Sketches of the rocket. Heavy steam fumes rising where the rocket has fallen into the water, because the motor appears to be still burning. Two more sequences of rockets launching from the island and falling into the lake. Men in a motorboat retrieving a rocket from the water. Another test launch of a Vierstabers rocket from a boat in the Schwielowsee (lake) in Germany. A motor launch traveling out on the lake, with a Vierstaber rocket on its deck and flying the German national flag. The launch next to a larger boat in the lake. The rocket launches high in the sky and falls into the lake.

Date: 1933, August
Duration: 2 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675024412
World wide Mercury network.

Mercury control stations all over world. USAF Rose Knot at sea. At rose knot station: a man on machine, official communicates with Friendship 7. Men at work. People with camel carts outside the station at Canary Islands. At Kano station, people work on transmitting station. At Muchea station, officials talk on headphones, an official smokes cigar. Rotating Earth. Satellite dish. Men, operating control panel at station and talking on headset at Canton Island and Hawaii. Officials work on giant machine at Mexico. In California, men are ready to track John Glenn. In Texas, officials talk on headsets. Personnel operate station at Corpus Christi. In Cape Canaveral, two men control the space flight of Mercury. An official gets printout. Official transmits the information on transmitters Officials on giant machine to Mercury control.

Date: 1962, February 20
Duration: 5 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024637
Battle of Hong Kong: Japanese troops attack British forces and supplies in Hong Kong in December, 1941.

Japanese propaganda newsreel, narrated in accented English. Fall of Hong Kong: Map shows Hong Kong and offensive from Kowloon to Hong Kong. Japanese artillery fired at British forces. Japanese attack over Hong Kong by artillery, by aircraft, and with landing forces. Explosions over targets from aircraft. British ships at sea under attack. Naval guns shell the island. Japanese troops on troop carriers ready for invasion of the mainland. Ships at sea. Mountains in the background. View of oil tanks on land. Japanese bombers in flight target ships and oil tanks. Pilot in bomber. Aerial view of Island and city. Smoke rises from oil tanks on Hong Kong. Artillery is fired. Ground forces scale ladders of an oil tank facility. (World War II period).

Date: 1942
Duration: 4 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024815
Japanese patrol boat stops at Tungho, Kiamusze, Fuchin, and a Japanese immigration village in China.

Japan - China conflict pre-World War II. Views from a Japanese patrol boat along the Sungari River (Songhua or Sunghwa River). Japanese on patrol boat. Plane in flight. Smoke arises from the boat. Animated map points out stops at Tungho, Kiamusze (Jiamusi, Heilongjiang), Fuchin, and a Japanese immigration village. They are searching along the Sungari River for guerrillas. Japanese officer gives order to soldiers. They launch several boats of soldiers who assault an island in the river. The Japanese Navy flag. Soldiers on the boat. They watch through binoculars and ship fires its deck gun at island. Japanese soldiers seen at guerrilla camp site. Japanese soldiers get off the boat and enter the immigration village.

Date: 1935
Duration: 4 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675024851