Children and adults volunteer and are recruited to work for ammunition factories and community work in Japan during World War II. Japanese schoolchildren with brooms head to a Shinto shrine. Children and adults worship at the Shinto shrine. They bow in front of the shrine. Japanese volunteers salute the Japanese flag. Volunteers cut grass in the field. Schoolchildren carrying buckets. Middle school students pile up rocks, cut grass and bushes on the hillside and clean up the temple. Japanese student volunteers march in a parade on the beach.1945.
General MacArthur returns to the Philippines in World War II. Gun footage show Allied airplanes bombard Japanese ships in Mindanao, Philippines. Allied airplane in dogfight with a Japanese airplane. Japanese airplane gets hit and goes down. Allied airplanes attack a Japanese anti-aircraft tower. Allied airplanes bombard Japanese airfield on Mindanao. Allied ships bombard Leyte in Philippines and carrier-based plane bombard the Island. United States prisoners of war captured by the Japanese. General Douglas MacArthur and General Jonathan Mayhew 'Skinny' Wainwright VI and Admiral William Frederick Halsey can be seen. General Douglas MacArthur and his men after landing on Leyte beach.
Quinhon harbor and surrounding area in Vietnam. Aerial view of construction and living quarters of the beach area. Mountains and coast line of Quinhon. Scene of the valley at Quinhon. A boat and a ship in the sea. Mountains on coast. Aerial view of coast line.
Qui Nhon harbor in Vietnam. Aerial view of coast city and mountain range on island. The coast. Boats and ships at sea. Seashore and field at the sea shore. An airfield near beach.
Qui Nhon harbor in Vietnam. Aerial view of river, trees, field and roads from the harbor. Aerial view of airfield near beach.
U.S. marines of the 4th Division taking chow break in rugged terrain of Iwo Jima during World War 2. Closeups of marines eating and drinking in a fortified area. View from inside a bombed out bunker. Concrete reinforcing wires dangle silhouetted against the light sky. View from cliffside, down to beach where landing craft are visible. View of road and encampments. Mount Suribachi visible in the distance. Resupply operations being carried out on the beachhead. Landing craft infantry (LCIs) along the shore, including a damaged one sitting high and dry. Others are sunk. View back on the cliffside near the bombed out bunker.
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