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Japanese air operations from Clark Field, after its capture by forces of Japan in World War II
Aerial view from Japanese aircraft of smoke rising from bombs dropped on Philippines, after its occupation by Japanese forces in World War 2. Several Japanese Aichi D3A (Type 99 Navy dive bombers, later called "Val") filmed from Japanese-occupied Clark Field, as they fly overhead in formation. Two of them pitch up and execute a loop, together, as Japanese military personnel on the ground watch them. Momentary view of pilot in cockpit of airplane. Those on the ground cheer and applaud the maneuver. A wrecked U.S. Army B-17 bomber is seen with all four engines removed. Camera shows cockpit interior and "Model B-17D, Air Corps, Serial No. A.C.40-3069" stenciled on the fuselage. (It is believed parts from this aircraft were used by the Japanese to repair B-17 40-3095, which was later flown to Japan as a war prize.) View of a destroyed American B-10 bomber. Interior of wrecked hangar in which Japanese maintenance is being performed on a Mitsubishi Ki.30 and a Mitsubishi Ki-21 twin engine bomber ("Type 97 Heavy Bomber" later called "Sally.") Japanese mechanics work on a bomber outdoors on the ramp. Ground crew meet a Mitsubishi Ki.30 "Ann" single-engine attack plane as it taxis in after landing. They load bombs on it. Momentary glimpse of mechanic climbing into a "Sally bomber." "Sally" bombers lined up on the tarmac.
A torpedo is prepared and pilots man their aircraft aboard a carrier underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.
U.S. Navy carrier operations in the Philippines, Pacific Ocean during World War II. Picture of a man's face drawn on or painted on the front of a torpedo. The torpedo being moved through the torpedo room aboard a ship. It is lifted from mount and moved up the mount elevator. Pilots running up onto the catwalk and flight deck for manning their aircraft during the attack on Manila. Pilots in the U.S. Navy F6F Hellcat and TBF Avenger aircraft. The aircraft take off from the flight deck
Filipino medics and nurses get into trucks during Japanese occupation of World War II.
Japanese occupation of Philippines during World War II. Filipino medics, nurses and doctors lined up outside a hospital. Medics and nurses get onto trucks. Sign on truck reads 'Lets work together'. Trucks pull away.
USIA film describing the ways it conducts its world-wide operations
Segment of U.S. Information Agency film describing its world-wide operations. Map shows 217 overseas posts in 17 countries, of the USIA (also known abroad, as the U.S. Information Service). Animated map zooms in on one post, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Aerial view of Sugar Loaf Mountain overlooking the harbor and city. Street scene in Rio. USIA Public Affairs Officer, William A. Wieland, is seen walking along a sidewalk in the city. Next he is seen in the office of Ambassador James S. Kemper, briefing him about USIA activities. View of the Brazilian Foreign Office building. Mr. Wieland meets with the Chief of the Cultural Division there. Book stacks in the USIA Thomas Jefferson Library in Rio de Janeiro. Mr. Wieland conferring with a librarian. He is also seen at the USIA broadcast facility in the U.S. Embassy. Film shifts to street scene in Cebu, the Philippines. A building displaying American and Philippine flags, is labeled: " United States Information Service." Inside, and American and a Filipino worker give bundles of literature to local workers for distribution. One, a bus driver, carries his bundle onto his open-sided bus, displaying the name, "Cebu, Autobus." He waves as he drives away. The USIA Public Affairs Officer is seen visiting the Mayor of Cebu City, Vincente S. del Rosario; giving a news release to the editor of a newspaper; broadcasting on local radio;and socializing with local editors. USIA drive a mobile movie van into a remote village where many children are playing. They set up a screen and projector. Almost everyone in town attends the showing. Scene shifts to USIA headquarters building at 1778 Pennsylvanis Avenue,in Washington, DC. Director Theodore Streibert holds a staff meeting. View of President Eisenhower addressing U.S. public media leaders about confronting the Soviet Union with truthful information about the U.S. and the West, on April 16, 1953,in Washington, DC. A USIA technician transmitting text of the speech to its public affairs officers around the world. Views of newspapers carrying the story in Paraquay, Ireland,Algeria, and Burma. The President's speech was printed in a pamphlet entitled "The Peace We Seek," ahd sent abroad where it was translated into Arabic,Japanese, Persian, and 20 other languages. Four million copies were distributed. Posters about the speech were also distributed.
Primer Mr Shigeru Yoshida addresses and signs peace treaty with representatives of other countries in San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Peace Treaty conference with Japan, in San Francisco, California. Beginning shows the War Memorial Opera House and Van Ness Avenue. U.S. President Harry S Truman steps to a podium, at the Opera House, to address delegates at the conference. With him on the stage are Dr. Warren Kelchner, Temporary Chairperson of the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference, Governor Earl Warren of California, and Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Next, Dean Acheson is seen seated at the center of a table with Dr. Kelchner, at his right, as Soviet representative Andrei A. Gromyko steps to the microphone and speaks. (Narrator says he raises complaint about rules of procedure.) Dean Acheson removes his translating headset in frustration. Next, a representative of Poland comes to the microphone, and calls for delays. View of delegates in the audience. New Zealand representative, Sir Carl August Berendsen, takes the stand to renounce delaying tactics. Audience members applaud. Carlos P. Rómulo, of the Philippines, speaks in support of the treaty. John foster Dulles, of the United States, steps to the podium to speak for the treaty. Next, Japanese Premier, Shigeru Yoshida, referring to notes in a roll of paper, endorses the treaty. Audience applauds. Secretary of State Acheson is seen signing the treaty for the United States, followed by representatives of: Australia; Cambodia; Great Britain; Ceylon; France; Indonesia; Philippines; and Pakistan. Next, the Japanese delegation comes forward, and Prime Minster Shingera Yoshida, signs the historic document. Closeups of ordinary Japanese from all walks of life. Japanese people commuting to work.
Japanese film of high-ranking Allied military officers taken prisoner in World War II and held in various places including Japanese-occupied China
Camera pans over a closeup of British Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival who was captured in the fall of Singapore. American Lieutenant-general Jonathan Wainwright, smoking the stub of a cigar, as he sits with U.S.Major General Edward P. King, Jr. (Both were imprisoned in the Japanese invasion of the Philippines.) A naval officer POW posing in front of a tree. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, in pith helmet, smoking a cigarette. POWs eating and conversing with Japanese interpreters, (One POW appears to be U.S. Brigadier General George F. Moore, who was imprisoned along with Wainright and King, in the Philippines.) View of POWs in a library, where one is reading from a script, while being recorded. Other POWs looking at documents.
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