The operations of the air defense team in United States. A B-26 aircraft flies over a snow-covered area. Views of American domestic sites that need antiaircraft protection. View of Southern Manhattan Island, showing skyscrapers. Views of factories, mills, canals, bridges, steel mills, refineries, industrial sites, and a major Dam. Warships passing through a canal. Soldiers man antiaircraft gun in New York City, with view of skyscraper buildings in background. Barrage balloons fly in the sky. Soldiers stand near barricades and 37mm antiaircraft artillery . Short range radar in the field to detect and locate the position of enemy aircraft. Soldier sits and watches the radar. Men and women in Air Defense Area Operations Center. They coordinate fighters, antiaircraft artillery, barrage balloons, radar, and searchlights. They discuss and detect the positions of the enemy. An area controller talks on the telephone. Men and women locate enemy aircraft on a map. Soldiers stand near antiaircraft artillery.
U.S. domestic air defenses in World War II. P-47 aircraft takeoff. Views inserted of German bombers in formation. U.S. soldiers come out of billets with guns in hands. They remove camouflage from antiaircraft guns and prepare to fire. P-47 aircraft in formation over a City. Inserted views of German bombers in formation, include a. formation of German Heinkel bombers. Inserted aerial dog fight scenes. An airplane crashes. Smoke arises due to the plane crash. Men and women detect the positions of the aircraft in the hall and inform soldiers about the aircraft. Soldiers fire according to the information. Soldiers fire at night with the help of search lights. Plane crashes.
Elevated view of people walking on the damaged Ai-Oi Bridge over a river in Hiroshima, Japan. Bridge shows damage from the atomic bomb explosion in World War 2. A U.S. soldier examines a steel bridge post etched from flying debris during the blast. Views of various wrecked buildings in the city. Exterior and interior views of a destroyed school building. A building knocked partially off its foundation and leaning sideways. Ruins of destroyed Japanese military headquarters. View of he Chugoku Electric Company building made of reinforced concrete that withstood the blast better than many buildings.
Map of Italy showing major cities. During a battlefield lull,in World War 2, in Italy, a German soldier reads a newpaper called the "Southern Front." View of Monte Cassino,Italy, with German troops taking cover amongst war debris. Fencing and signs identify minefields. German soldiers with their weapons, hidden in foliage. German soldier looks through binoculars as American forces bombard the town of Monte Cassino. German soldier, seeking cover, jumps over a stone wall. Smoke rises from the U.S. bombardment. German officers consult in a dugout. German soldiers move stealthily across a stream and through battle scarred landscape. Some take up positions and fire machine guns, rifles, and rifle grenades toward American lines. They advance from their trenches and come across fallen American soldiers on the field. They encounter one crawling, and several others from the U.S. 34th Division, whom they take prisoner. They remove their equipment and weapons, and smoke the American cigarettes. Behind the lines, a man in civilian clothes questions the captured American soldiers. A German soldier uses periscopic binoculars to spot targets for German artillerymen firing heavy weapons. Explosions seen in valley below as shells burst.
A group of American officers walk towards the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan. Japanese civilians walk towards the palace (1-1 Chiyoda, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-8111, Japan). American soldiers sit on the grass and talk to Japanese girls. An American soldier wraps his arm around a young Japanese woman. The Japanese woman smiles (World War II period).
Japanese fire fighters on a fireboat at harbor in Tokyo, Japan, soon after the end of World War II. The fireboat demonstrates during firefighting exercise at the estuary of Sumida River near Kachidoki Bridge, Chuo-Ward, Tokyo. Also visible, in the background, are the semicircular roof of Tsukiji Hongan-ji (3 Chome-15-1 Tsukiji, Chuo City, Tokyo 104-8435, Japan) and the quays of the very famous The Tsukiji fish market.
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