First pictures of bomb damaged Japan after atomic bomb blast. Aerial views of Hiroshima. Ruins in city. Rubble on ground. Few buildings stand straight. Bent iron bars and buildings. (World War II period).
Bomb damaged cities of Japan. Ruins in Nagasaki, attacked with an atomic bomb three days after Hiroshima. City of Osaka destroyed by conventional aerial bombardment. Fleet of ships in water at Kure. (World War II period).
Bomb damaged cities of Japan during World War II. Aerial view of Tokyo. People in the damaged city of Tokyo. Ruins on ground. Damaged buildings. American planes fly over the Japanese Imperial Palace. People bow and pray in the garden. Group of happy, freed U.S. prisoners at the liberated Ofuna Japanese prisoner of war camp. Japanese prison guards bow as former prisoners leave in truck.
U.S. Army General, Jonathan Mathew Wainwright, home from Bataan and Corregidor, and Japanese prisons, reviews a parade in San Francisco and Washington DC and receives the Congressional Medal of Honor from U.S. President Harry S. Truman. General Wainwright exits an airplane in San Francisco. A crowd stands on both sides of a road. The General is greeted by the western defense commander, and by his sister, Mrs. Frederick Mears. They ride in a convertible car and wave at a large parade crowd along Market Street in San Francisco, gathered to welcome him back to the United States. Next scene shows his arrival by airplane in Washington DC, where he meets his wife for the first time since she left the Philippines in 1941. A military motorcade with General Wainwright crosses Memorial Bridge from Arlington into Washington DC. Huge "Welcome" sign and bunting arches all the way across Memorial Bridge, with the Lincoln Memorial in the background. Posters on poles read "Welcome Home Skinny" (his nickname). Large crowd gathers at the Washington Monument to celebrate General Wainwright. Next, on the White House lawn, President Truman presents the Congressional Medal of Honor to the General in Washington DC.
Survey of damage in Hiroshima, Japan after the atomic bomb attack in World War 2. Damage in the range of 1 mile from the center. Damaged side of a steel bridge on the Ota River. No damage signs visible on the other side of the bridge. Damaged Red Cross hospital building. Damage on the north east side of the hospital. Less damaged north west side of the building. Windows of the building blown on the south west side and the south east side. Burnt chairs on the window side. Interior partitions of the hospital not damaged. Ruins on the land. On the south side of the city only few missionary walls remain. A small industrial smoke stack stand undamaged. Damaged huts and houses.
Damage in Nagasaki, Japan after the atomic bomb attack during World War 2. Narrator indicates devastation shown is from zero point area of the bomb attack. 5 1/2 square mile area is covered with rubble due to damage and fire following the bomb attack. Destruction at 12 miles where workers barracks were knocked down due to concussion. At 1 1/2 miles from ground zero, a cracked smoke stack is shown.
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