Various captured Japanese submarines near Sasebo Japan during Operation Road's End. View of the U.S. Destroyer, USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830). United States Navy Martin PBM Mariner drops bomb on Japanese submarine. Smoke rises from the submarine as it sinks.
USS Tirante SS-420 submarine in Japan. An enlisted boy looks through binoculars aboard the submarine. Commander George L Street III looks through binoculars. Japanese junk boat (Wasen) comes alongside the USS Tirante. Japanese fishermen brought aboard the USS Tirante. The junk boat is set on fire. Junk boat burns at night. Periscope view of large rock extending above water.
Japanese women archers in an archery contest in Japan. The target, a painted bull's eye. The archers enter the field, take positions and bow to the target.
Men practice Judo, the art of self defense, in Japan. Men demonstrate the methods used in a Judo exercise. Several views of the same.
A Sumo wrestling match in Japan. A crowd watches the wrestling match. Some individuals eat their lunch and watch the wrestlers at the same time. An umpire claps two sticks together and bows. The wrestlers are in the ring. Several views of the match.
1946 Film about military and civilian applications of radar and electronics. View of the LaGuardia Airport Administration Building (passenger terminal) in New York, with control tower and various antennas on its roof. A TWA Constellation and DC-3 airplane on the airport ramp, as another aircraft is on the final approach to land. Commercial cargo vessels in New York harbor (Statue of Liberty barely seen in the misty background). A passenger railroad train speeding along the tracks. Radar returns shown on a plan position radar scope, tracking weather returns. Tropical storm hitting a seaside area. Scientists and technicians at work in a laboratory filled with electronic equipment. View of buildings at U.S. Army Signal Corps' Camp Evans, New Jersey. Sign above one entrance reads: "Evans Signal Laboratory." Inside the laboratory, images created by radar signals bounced off the moon are seen on a radar scope, during "Project Diana," on January 10, 1946. View of the Army's GB-4 radio controlled television glide bomb, suspended on a chain inside a building. It rotates around showing various views. Scene shifts to a launching track outdoors at a coastal facility, where a glide bomb takes off raising smoke as it accelerates along the launch path. Next, a GB-4 glide bomb is released from underneath a B-17 bomber in flight. It is seen flying away from the aircraft. Inside the aircraft, a crew member views its progress by means of television images received from a transmitter in the front of the bomb. Glimpse of the television images. View from the ground of the GB-4 bomb gliding to the ground and exploding. Views of a German V-2 rocket at Launch Complex 33, White Sands Proving Ground , New Mexico, where it was being tested by the U.S. Army Ordnance Department in 1946. Inside a control room, an Army technician gives the signal to launch, and the V-2 rocket fires and rises straight into the sky, with its fiery tail visible as it gains altitude. More views of scientists, engineers, and technicians inside a Signal Corps electronics laboratory. Soldiers being trained in radar technology, seated at an electronic array. An army staff sergeant technician working on radar components. A variety of different radar antennas rotating outdoors.
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