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Bamboo forests and the effect of the Japanese current and monsoons on climate in Japan.
Geologic formation and the geographic placing of the Japanese islands. View of bamboo forests and snow-capped mountains. Animated map describes the effect of the Japanese current and monsoons on the islands' climate.
Matsushima Bay's pine clad islets and islets covered with pine trees in Japan.
Matsushima in Japan. View of islands at Matsushima bay that have been carved away by the ocean. Islands are covered with pine trees. Matsushima Bay's pine clad islets. Oarsman rows boat.
Emperor Hirohito with businessmen, Japanese businessmen meet with American civilians in New York City
Emperor Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa) and Japanese and Western businessmen wearing straw boat hats pose together with military officers. View of Low Memorial Library at Columbia University in New York City. Japanese men meet an American couple inside the campus of Columbia University. Door reads “Japanese Government Railways Japan Tourist Bureau”. A man opens the door. Another man greets him. A Japanese businessman smokes a pipe and reads a Literary Digest magazine. An American couple meets the Japanese businessman. The businessman shows American man a document during their meeting. Map of Honshu, the central island of Japan, identifying the main produce and industries on the island. Smokestacks of a factory in Japan and view of homes and buildings in a city or town of Japan. Map of Central Japan showing its population below.
United States Marines in mopping up operations on Iwo Jima, during World War II
4th Division U.S. Marines in final phases of the battle for Iwo Jima, in World War 2. U.S. marine walks across rocks with destroyed vegetation behind him. A demolition charge explodes in the rocks and several Japanese soldiers emerge to surrender. Scene shifts to a Japanese stronghold in a cave. A Japanese officer stands with a U.S. marine outside the cave. A Japanese defender emerges and talks with the Japanese officer, who then tells the marine there are two more Japanese soldiers in the cave. The marine helps the Japanese soldier out of the cave. Scene changes to another Japanese stronghold, where a marine throws a line up to another marine standing atop the rocky outcropping. Next scene shows a demolition charge exploding at the site. In a new sequence, four U.S. marines carry a wounded comrade and place his litter on the ground where another team picks it up and carries it. View from high ground of Mount Suribachi, seen above mist, on distant end of the island. A truck moving rapidly over a dirt road on the island.
Pilots Bernt Balchen and Floyd Bennett stand in front of a Fairchild FC-2W aircraft
Pilots Bernt Balchen, in a cap, and Floyd Bennett, in a fedora hat, stand in front of a Fairchild FC-2W airplane, at Lac Ste. Agnes (Lake St. Agnes) in Quebec, Canada. In another scene, Dr. Louis Cuisinier, technical director of Trans Continental Airways Limited,stands with them. He points to a page in a book and gives Floyd Bennett a box of cigars to be taken to the Junkers aircraft "Bremen" that had force-landed on Greenly Island, Quebec, after a transatlantic flight. (Note: Floyd Bennett was suffering with pneumonia, and became gravely ill soon after these shots were made. He did not pilot a plane to Greenly Island. Instead, he was rushed to Jeffrey Hale Hospital in Quebec City , where he died on April 25, 1928.)
A U.S. Navy F4F airplane crashes on deck of the USS Wasp (CV-7) early in 1941, before U.S. entry into World War II
U.S.Navy F4F-3 from Squadron VF-42 (BuNo 2537) crashing on the USS Wasp (CV-7) in 1941, prior to the U.S. entry into World War 2. Slow motion sequence showing the F4F rounding out high during landing and drifting into the island of the aircraft carrier. The right wing strikes the superstructure of the island and breaks off. The F4F collapses, inverted, in pieces, on the flight deck. Several members of the ship's crew hunkered down beside the deck during the accident.
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