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.
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
Camp Philip Morris in Le Havre, France. War brides of American soldiers at railway station preparing to travel to Camp Philip Morris. Several American soldiers are seen with their wives and babies. The war brides fill the train and it leaves the station, as American Military Police in white helmets stand and salute. Passengers look out of the windows of the railroad cars. A sign reads 'Camp Philip Morris'. War brides arrive by bus and carry belongings to their quarters. Camp buildings in view.
A squadron of P-47 aircraft from the U.S. Army Air Corps (USAAC) 365th Fighter Group, landing at Florennes airfield (A-78) in Belgium near the end of World War 2, in Europe. P-47s overhead in formation. P-38 aircraft of the 474th Fighter Group taking off from the airfield.
Activities in Florennes, Belgium in the European Theater Of Operations (ETO). Damaged two-story building near the Rhine River. Remagen Bridge in view. A railroad tunnel in a hill. Manned antiaircraft gun position. A man looks through binoculars. An aircraft crashes. A plane in flight. United States aircraft P-38 Lightning in flight. Antiaircraft guns (flak) fired. Several P-38 Lightning aircraft in flight. L-4 Grasshopper aircraft in flight. (World War II period).
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