Farmers harvesting grain and corn with machinery on American farms with a narrow tractor harvester. Steel mills and heavy industry and cargo railroads in the United States. Industrial views with smokestacks releasing much smoke and smog (also pollution scenes). Scenes of New York City with busy streets filled with cars, buses, and truck traffic, together with pedestrians. Many varied 1940s and 1950s cars on the roads. Elevated and also aerial views of U.S. highway networks busy with 1940s and 1950s cars. Views of Jones Beach, on Long Island, New York. Scenes of destruction in Japan from the atomic bomb, with sweeping views of destroyed city in Hiroshima or Nagasaki circa 1945 or 1946. U.S. Army infantrymen engaged in house-to-house fighting in Europe during World War II, firing rifles and moving between points of cover in a city filled with rubble.
Views of North Korea during 1945 through 1950. Reconstruction going on in North Korea, new buildings being built. Korean country side and small islands in the bay as waves break on the shore. A group of North Koreans arrives at diamond mountain resort and look at Koo Rong Hun falls, they pose for pictures. Men and women in a reading room.
Landing Ship Tank, LST-831, carrying elements of the 2nd Marine Division, in amphibious assault rehearsal training in Northern Mariana Islands during World War 2. She displays red flag with white stripe, as a secondary control ship for Red Beach. (Later, in the Battle of Okinawa, they would be part of a demonstration Tractor Group making diversionary attacks on the Southeastern coast). She arrives at beach with bow doors open, lowers her ramp, and a landing vehicle tracked (LVT) exits onto the beach. A bright orange flag flutters on beach in front of the camera, where it has been planted to guide boats during the exercise. LST-831 then backs away from the beach to allow LVTs to get experience operating in deep water. Remaining footage shows LVTs making their way through the water, loaded with Marines. Closeup of an LVT.
U.S. Fleet Oiler, USS Neches ( AO-47) is seen refueling an aircraft carrier during heavy seas and weather in the Pacific in World War 2. At one point the rudder of the USS Neches is seen exposed as she pitches. In final part of the sequence, the number 47 can be seen clearly on the bow of the Neches as viewed from a covered deck on the carrier. Note: A crew member on the Neches added the following inforrmation: "This fueling of the fleet was just days before we sailed into an inlet off the island of Okinawa. Several days later we shot down a suicide plane while anchored there in the inlet. I was the sightsetter on the 5 inch gun that shot the plane down. We hit it on our third shot and it splashed into the water just shy of an LST, its target. The plane's original target was our Neches but, after the first shot, it turned and headed toward the LST. My memory tells me it was on April 7th."
Titled 'Allied Forces land In Japan'. USS Missouri leading a convoy of 400 warships into the Bay of Tokyo. Admiral Halsey of the U.S. Navy smiles. Huge guns on the ship. A U.S. Army Air Force base at the island of Okinawa, Japan. U.S. Army Air Force plane lands at a Japanese Air Force base near Tokyo. Officers of the Japanese Air Force surrender to the officials of the Allied forces. U.S. National Flag hoisted at Tokyo Airdrome. Base operations sign there for the 3rd Airdrome Squadron. Japanese Military Police marching at Hazuki Airfield. Scenes of destroyed planes and facilities on the ground at Hazuki airfield. Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander of the fleet of Allied Forces congratulates forces on the USS Missouri. Japanese ship alongside USS San Diego. Japanese men climb into the ship and give navigation instructions to the San Diego and Task Force 31. Many sunken Japanese ships in harbor at Yokosuko. Japanese ship Nagato and crew taken into custody by the Navy and its new captain Thomas Flynn.
Aftermath of Allied invasion of Iheya Jima in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. A wrecked town on the island. A United States soldier rides a burro. A military police officer guards over a group of natives. Pillbox of burial tomb blasted by Allied naval guns. A man at the beach with Landing Vehicle Tracked underway in the background. Soldiers load supplies onto a truck.
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