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Japanese 1931 aggression in Manchuria condemned by the League of Nations. Continued Japanese aggression in the Pacific, through World War II

Japanese international activities during 1931-1945. Opening scene shows Japanese troops embarking on ships bound for an invasion of Manchuria, in 1931. Officers walking on the dock, amongst the departing troops. Scenes of explosions and destruction. Views of Shanghai during Japanese attacks in 1937. Destroyed buildings. Civilian dead lying in the streets. Japanese soldiers racing along a street in a three wheeled motorcycle vehicle. Change of scene shows Japanese diplomat Yosuke Matsuoka addressing a League of Nations meeting in 1933, after that body adopted a report blaming Japan for events in Manchuria. He objects to that action and then leads his delegation in walking out of the meeting. View of Japanese delegates in top hats and bowler hats exiting the building. Scene shifts to Japanese forces firing artillery and machine guns in Manchuria.They wave large Japanese flag victoriously after a battle. The next scene shows Italian forces occupying Ethiopia and raising the flag of the Kingdom of Italy, as Italian troops salute, presenting arms of rifles with fixed bayonets. Axis leaders celebrate the 1940 Tripartite Pact between German, Italy and Japan. The festivities take place in a hall displaying the three nation's flags on the walls. A large number of persons attend including Japan's Prime Minister, General Hideki Tojo, seen with two celebrants. Scene reverts to China with Chinese civilian people trying to escape from invading Japanese forces. The refugees carry their belongings as they flee. Occasional shell burst is seen among advancing Japanese troops as Chinese soldiers put up resistance. Chinese soldiers firing artillery. In the U.S., Japanese envoys Kichisaburō Nomura and Saburō Kurusu are seen walking together into a building and entering a room inside. Next, are views of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, with huge plumes of smoke obscuring the bombed U.S. battleships in the harbor. U.S. battleships in line formation in the Pacific during World War 2. Aerial view of U.S. warships moving in parallel. British ships augmenting the U.S. warships. Naval guns firing. U.S. amphibious assaults on Japanese held islands in the Pacific. Prisoners of the Japanese who suffered in the Philippines. General Douglas MacArthur mingling with former prisoners and internees upon his return to Manila in 1944. Aerial views of Iwo Jima. Naval bombardment and amphibious assault of Iwo Jima. Numerous fallen Japanese soldiers. The iconic American flag raising by U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima. View of Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. during the campaign on Okinawa, where he was killed in action. A Soldier being carried on a stretcher. Another throwing a hand grenade. U.S. soldier firing at a Japanese defender who falls out of his bunker. Large numbers of Japanese prisoners of war assembled in a field. Japanese Kamikaze attacking U.S. warships off Okinawa. The sky filled with antiaircraft flak clouds. View of 40mm Bofors antiaircraft cannon firing and a Japanese plane falling and exploding on impact in the ocean.

Date: 1945
Duration: 5 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051624
Damaged buildings and displaced civilians in Italy during World War II.

A film titled 'Thunderbolt' about the aftermath of Allied air attacks in Italy during World War 2 . A U.S. Army Air Force pilot seated in the cockpit of an aircraft. Cameras fixed up in different parts of the aircraft. The cameras attached to wings, a wheel well and the instrument panel. Actor James Stewart (Jimmy Stewart), seated in a chair, reads a telegram by Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Forces Major General Carl Spaatz. Damaged buildings in Italy after Allied air attacks during World War II. Men guide a pack of mules down a road. Damaged buildings as a horse drawn cart moves past them. Displaced Italians on a road. An Italian civilian woman with a crying child. Two young Italian children children walk past damaged buildings and step cautiously avoiding a decomposed dead body amidst debris. Aerial views of mountains in Italian Alps and rugged terrain in Italy. Bomb craters on the ground leaving some areas of Italy as only rubble. A waterfall tumbling down a rocky hillside. Aerial views of buildings and a river in a town. Scenes of demolished railroad marshaling yards from Allied bombing campaigns.

Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066630
Newsreel 'Latest films of war in Italy' shows progress of Allied forces advancing toward Rome in World War 2

United States Army Air Force fighter planes and B-17 bomber aircraft seen in flight, including close-up aerial views looking down on B-17 in flight. Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress “Hustlin Hussy” of the 385th Bomb Group in flight. Views of American bombing on the German supply lines outside of Rome Italy during World War II. U.S. planes bomb railroad marshaling yards near Rome. Allied forces cover the Mediterranean Sea. Explosions seen on ground as filmed from Allied aircraft over head. Fifth United States Army advance from the Anzio beachheads toward Rome. General Mark Clark in aircraft as he inspects the operation via aerial view. Close up views of General Mark Clark after he exits airplane to inspect operations. U.S. 5th Army troops on the ground bombard German positions with mortars and artillery. Explosions seen along German lines. American soldiers seen passing through small bombed-out villages in Italy. The town of Anzio heavily damaged after bombing. Group of Italian refugees greet American troops. German prisoners of war who have surrendered are marched in Italy, including many being marched double time. German prisoners marching, passing by a sign with arrow that reads “Military Police H.Q.”. They are seen being loaded into the same invasion ships that brought the Allied forces to Italy.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040783
U.S. ground forces enter Italy after bombing behind enemy lines and cutting off the transport of enemy supplies.

The Map of Italy shows blockage of railway line in Italy as a part of Operation Strangle. Aircraft P-47 in flight over Italian farm countries strafes railroad, trains and trucks on road. Explosions on the ground. P-47 fires rockets on ground targets. Pilot in P-47. Group of P-47 in flight overhead. Smoke rises from burning P-47 in fields. Men watch while it burns. Dead pilot taken on stretcher. P-47s in flight over Italy. P-47 strafing vehicles on road. The Map of Italy shows the United States armies stationed at Anzio and Cassino. The U.S. troops, tanks and other vehicles arrive in Rome. Civilians in streets and buildings. Destroyed and wrecked enemy equipment and vehicles in town. U.S. soldiers move ahead on road in jeep. Wrecked German trains. U.S. troops advance and pass by wrecked bridges. Ruins of bridges after attack by P-47s under Operation Strangle. Wrecked German vehicles and dead men. P-47s in flight. Man on look out post at Alto Air Base. Men drink and sing at clubhouse in Alto Air Base. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 6 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051970
Scenes of Rome, Italy, where American Army Air Force officers visit during World War II

Scenes of Rome, during World War 2. View of the Pantheon. An American Army Air Forces officer throws a coin into the Trevi Fountain (Piazza di Trevi, 00187 Roma RM, Italy). Hypogeum of the Colosseum (Piazza del Colosseo, 1, 00184 Roma RM, Italy). American Army Air Forces officer stands in Colosseum and pretends to give a speech. The Pyramid of Caius Cestius (Via Raffaele Persichetti, 00153 Roma RM, Italy) and the Porta San Paolo (P.za Ostiense, 00154 Roma RM, Italy).

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058911
Various landmarks in Rome, Italy photographed during World War II

Landmarks in Rome Italy as seen during World War 2. Palazzo Venezia at the Piazza Venezia, with flag marking the famous balcony where Mussolini spoke. The Victor Emmanuel Monument or Vittoriano (Altar of the Fatherland, Piazza Venezia, 00186 Roma RM, Italy). The Palazzo Senatorio (Piazza del Campidoglio, 00186 Roma RM, Italy) on Capitoline Hill. The grave of John Keats (the English poet) in the Protestant Cemetery (Via Marmorata, 00153 Roma RM, Italy).

Date: 1944
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058912