The USS Mississippi (BB-41) underway in the Philippines during World War 2. Crewmen aboard USS Mississippi using water hoses to put out deck fire caused by Japanese Kamikaze suicide bomber aircraft. Men clean up debris on deck around 5" guns.
Japanese plane bomb USS Ommaney Bay (CVE). Japanese plane crashes in water close aboard. General Kruger uses binoculars on bridge of USS Mississippi. Smoke rises from warships. Ships at sea. (World War II period).
U.S. Officers seated at a planning table aboard a U.S. warship during World War 2. They refer occasionally, to a stack of papers (battle plans or intelligence reports) as they point to a relief map of Iwo Jima. They discuss various places on Iwo Jima.
A crew member gets a hair cut on weather deck of a U.S. warship underway in the Pacific Ocean, during World War 2. The barber (a sailor) seems quite proficient, and even uses a shaving brush and straight razor to shave his patron around the ears.
A Japanse girl blows a whistle and a number of children run along a beach. Japanese children dressed in their uniforms carry a school bag as they move to school. Children play in the school ground. Principal conducts a staff meeting where he complaints about the behavior of a student.. A cleaner puts forward his point of view followed by a female and a male teacher,while one of the faculty members continue to doze through out meeting.Japanese schools are not well equipped and therefore the educational system has certain loopholes.As the meeting concludes teachers leave for their respective classrooms.One of the male teachers finds that students have drawn his sketch on the blackboard.
Japanese children pray and bow their heads to the national flag.The totalitarian government infuses state shintoism in young children and it often blends religion with nationalism.This is done in order to destroy free thought and individuality among young Japanese.Minimum of six years of schooling is compulsory in Japan and all schools are under municipal control.Children draw and paint a picture of a bird and are taught to admire a cherry blossom tree.Fifth grade students read from their text books in a reading period.These government approved textbooks are poor in quality.
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