Idled ships and cranes at damaged port of Yokahoma, Japan, seen right after end of hostilities in World War 2. Port facilities reduced to steel skeletons from bombing by USAAF in the war. Camera pans over the city from a high point of land. Ocean in background. Wide swaths of completely burned-out areas in the foreground. There is hardly any notable human activity. Scene changes completely to aerial view from aircraft flying overhead. Brief glimpse of a U.S. B-24 Liberator bomber flying below, close to the ground (probably preparing to land). Aerial view of airfield in distance.
Camera pans over damaged areas of Yokahoma, after end of World War 2. Many buildings are damaged in a Wide area of canals and roads. Shells of larger concrete buildings standing amidst wide area of destroyed smaller buildings. Complete change of scene, to U.S. African-American airman, wire-brushing the Japanese red ball roundel from fuselage of a captured Japanese airplane.
A view of an P-51K Mustang of the 41st Fighter Squadron, 35th Fighter Group on an airstrip at Clark Field in Manila, Philippines, near end of World War 2 . A pilot climbs into the cockpit of the aircraft. An airplane lands and a fuel truck drives past in the background. Mountains in the far background. The pilot starts the engine and prepares to taxi. Fuel begins to slosh and spill from his left auxiliary drop tank. It continues as he begins to taxi. A new sequence shows nose of P-51 and propeller, then switches to pilot climbing into cockpit.
Military supplies on Clark Air Base, Manilia, Philippines. Closeup of a stack of wooden boxes containing K-Rations and cardboard boxes of C-rations. Many spools of wire, clustered together, and stacked on end. Batteries of antiaircraft guns, in sand-bagged emplacements,at the airbase perimeter, raise their barrels in unison, for the camera.
World War 2, aerial view of air attacks (from unseen U.S. aircraft) on Japanese military camps in the slopes of mountains rising abruptly over the Keelung (aka Chi-lung, Kirun, or Kiirun) coast of Formosa (Taiwan). Clusters of small explosions are seen covering the camps
Clark Field, Manila, the Philippines, during World War 2. U.S. mechanics work on a Japanese Mitsubishi G4M "Betty" bomber, painted in U.S. markings by the U.S. Army Air Forces Technical Air Intelligence Unit for the South West Pacific Area (TAIU-SWPA)
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