Bomb damage in Merkwiller, France during World War II. Photographs of aerial view of a bombed German occupied oil refinery. Wrecked buildings of the refinery. A soldier walks on a wrecked railroad. Damaged machines and equipment of the refinery. Damaged railroad and tank cars. Oil left after the bombings. Wrecked oil storage tanks and pipes. Aerial view of the bombed out refinery and damaged buildings in the countryside.
U.S. 35th Infantry Division fires the last shell in Europe during World War II. A 35th Division gun crew loads shells into a camouflaged field gun. A soldier talks over a field telephone. The gun is fired. The shell reads 'The 35th Div Last round'. Troops scramble for the empty shell case.
A market place in Tokyo, Japan. A peddler sells his wares on a sidewalk along Jinga Way in Tokyo. A prospective customer looks over some aluminum kettles. People walk on the sidewalk. Assorted type of Japanese, male, female as well as children, pedestrians. In Shinjuku area, Beppu : small shops and pedestrians alongside a street. A small store sells wicker baskets.
After World War 2, Japanese people in post-war, poverty stricken Japan scavenge for resources and food amidst shortages and rationing. In Tokyo: Japanese children work in ruins of a bath house near a group of miner's houses in the Higashi Misome Mine area. Children working to pick up pieces of tile which they have loosened with a hammer and an iron bar. Two children's hands seen working with a hammer and a tile. Two boys in a wrecked bath tub chiseling a tile. Two boys and girls search the debris of the bath house. In Osaka : Japanese women, men and children scrape up corn kernels off a road, which have been spilled there from a passing truck.
Japanese people on a street in Kyoto, Japan. A narrow street. People shop near buildings. People walk along a street in the outskirts of Kyoto near a river. People ride on bicycles. A car driven on a road.
The President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses the nation in the United States. President Roosevelt advocates National Conscription (military draft) for material reasons and for reasons of morale. He defends the principles of the Atlantic Charter. He summons the United Nations to protect their own sanctity and that of small nations as well. Men wearing head phones listen to the speech.
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