Japanese invasion and occupation of the Philippines in World War II. Smoke rises as Japanese soldiers fire artillery in the foreground. Mountains in the foreground. Japanese bomber aircraft fly in formation. They drop bombs on Corregidor Island. Smoke rises from the bombardment. The soldiers fire artillery. Interior of an airplane. A pilot and a co-pilot seated in the cockpit. They drop bombs on a target area in Corregidor.
United State prisoners of war in the Philippines during World War II. Captured U.S. prisoners of war in Corregidor Island during Japanese occupation. Army nurses with the captured prisoners of war. A wounded prisoner of war walking with crutches. Injured prisoners of war smoking cigarettes. The flag of the U.S. crumpled on the ground. Brigadier General Lewis Beebe, Colonel Bowles, General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, and General George F. Moore inside their cells in a prison camp. The flag of the U.S. on the ground and the Japanese flag is hoisted on a flagpole.
U.S. bombings on islands in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Several aircraft in flight. A map showing a flight path from Volcano Island in the Philippines to Iwo Jima in Japan. On 10th August, 1944 : A United States Army air Force B-24 Liberator bomber aircraft in flight. Several B-24s in flight. The aircraft drop bombs over target areas and explosions occur. Smoke rises from the bombed areas. A map showing the flight path to Yap island. On 20th August, 1944 : A B-24 in flight drops bombs over target areas on Yap island. Smoke rises from the resultant explosions.
Brief views of Allied bombing raids in Japan during World War II. A group of United States Army Air Force aircraft flying over Japan. An army cemetery in front of a building in the Pacific. United States Army Air Force aerial machine gun strafe Japanese positions on the Aleutian Islands. A chaplain praying over a coffin with the American flag draped over it. Aerial view of bombs falling and exploding into Japanese positions in China. Consolidated B-24 Liberator dropping bombs over Wake Island. View of Wake Island. Graves of U.S. troops on Wake Island, Burma, and other recaptured Pacific islands. Allied Airborne Infantry on the jungles of Burma (Myanmar). Gunshots are heard on the background. Two United States Consolidated B-24 Liberator aircraft flying to the Philippines. Allied bombardment of Hollandia (present day Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia). Grave of an unidentified soldier. United States troops land on a beach. A Howitzer is towed across a river. Soldiers rolling a barrel of oil. Snowplow truck clearing snow in front of a bomber. United States troops unload supplies at a snow-covered airbase.
U.S. Task Force no. 38 ships head for Leyte, Philippines during World War II. Aerial view of Philippines Islands. USS Massachusetts (BB-59) underway. Smoking F6F Hellcat lands on flight deck of carrier.
Scenes of various atomic bomb tests conducted by America during a course of time. Shows the atomic bomb test in Alamogordo, New Mexico(1945). Nuclear weapons tests for shot Able and shot Baker, tested at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands as part of Operation Crossroads(1946). Close -up view of massive nuclear explosion at sea seen from shore with blast wave approaching unmanned ships near harbor and a palm tree on shore seen waving dramatically. Atomic bomb tests at the Enewetak Atoll (sometimes spelled Eniwetok or Eniewetok) In the Marshall Island as part of Operation Sandstone (1948). (World War II period).
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