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Japanese Imperial Army soldiers enter and bomb Shanghai, China

Japanese 9th Division regular army troops marching outside a compound in Shanghai, China. Soldiers with bayonets sit on top of a moving truck. Soldiers hold a Japanese flag while sitting on top of supplies from a moving truck. Japanese soldiers cross the Huangpu Creek bridge. Soldiers with bayonets marching in the International Settlement of Shanghai. Kenkichi Ueda, Commander in Chief of the Japanese Imperial Army standing in front of a barracks. General Ueda and soldiers enter the barracks together. Soldiers firing artillery at Shanghai. Shanghai being bombarded. Japanese gunners pull artillery back into place with ropes after recoil drives cannon backwards. An artillery fires more shells. A burning house. Japanese soldier riding a motorcycle with sidecar. A Japanese soldier uses a pair of binoculars. Thick smoke forms over Shanghai. Japanese soldiers running in Shanghai. Soldiers running past a tank. Type 87 Model 25 Vickers Crossley "Dowa" armored car equipped with two Vickers 303 machine guns moving down street. Inside view of Type 87 Model 25 armored car. Japanese soldiers firing with machine guns next Type 87 Model 25. A dead Chinese man lying on the snow. Japanese soldiers firing with machine guns beside a tank. Japanese soldiers standing on a bridge. Japanese soldiers capture Chinese spies dressed as women and farmers. Two Japanese soldiers support an injured comrade. Chinese captives kneeling beside Japanese soldiers at train depot. Chinese refugees leaving Shanghai on foot. Chinese locals stand on boats sailing out of Shanghai. Panicking crowds leaving Shanghai en masse.

Date: 1932, March
Duration: 2 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079707
USS Edsall (DD-219), USS Bainbridge (DD-246) and U.S. Transport Ship, Chaumont, in Changhai (Shanghai), China

American warships in Shanghai, China. An Italian cruiser of the Pisa Class. USS Edsall (DD-219) and USS Bainbridge (DD-246). A light Cruiser with single stack is anchored in the harbor. Numerous U.S. sailors embark on a large motor launch from the U.S. Transport ship, Chaumont. A Chinese Junk sails amidst the clutter of warships. U.S. Sailor at tiller of the motor launch, American flag fluttering in the breeze. Numerous warships in the harbor. Several Chinese Junks sailing in the harbor. The motor launch filled with U.S. sailors, underway.

Date: 1925, June
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060917
Japanese institutions and buildings in China before the Sino-Japanese War.

Front entrance of the Academy of Oriental Culture Tokyo Institute. The Academy of Oriental Culture building with two Chinese guardian lions or shishi (stone lions) flanking the entrance. The Toa Dobunkai Foundation Japanese Society of Cultural Work for China building (1 Sannencho, Kojimachi-ku Tokyo Japan) designed by Shinichiro Okada in Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese-run Tung Wen College or Toa Dobun Shoin Hongqiao Road School Building in Shanghai, China. Entrance to the Sino-Japanese Educational Association. The main building of the Dojinkai or Japanese Society for Welfare Work in China. The T’ung Ren Hwei Hangkow Hospital in Wuhan (Hankou), China maintained by the Japanese Dojinkai. The Japanese Hospital, Tsingtao (Qingdao, Shandong, China). Kiang-han Middle School building in Wuhan. A sign in Chinese at the entrance of the Peking Library of Modern Scientific Research in Beijing. View of the Shanghai Science Institute, now the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences - Chinese Academy of Sciences (500 Caobao Rd, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China), designed by Japanese architect Yoshikazu Uchida, at the French Concession, Shanghai.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079744
Several vessels in the Huangpu River and views of the Shanghai Bund along the western bank of the river in Shanghai, China.

The Huangpu River in Shanghai, China. A vessel in the Huangpu River. A sail boat and junks on the water. Several buildings in view on the shore. Several sail boats in the river. A paddle wheel steam boat on the water. Boats anchored to the shore. Views of the Shanghai Bund along the western bank of the Huangpu River. Several vessels in the river. The Camelback Truss Waibaidu Bridge (world's first all steel bridge) also known as the Garden Bridge, spanning Suzhou Creek at the Huangpu River. Several buildings at the Shanghai Bund in view including the Headquarters of the Shanghai Branch of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (now known as the HSBC Building or the Municipal Government Building) at number 12, The Bund, and the Customs House at number 13, The Bund, and the China Bank of Communications Building at number 14, The Bund. Also the China Merchant Bank Building and the North China Daily News Building (now the AIA building). Other Bund buildings also seen.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066300
Chinese and Japanese soldiers fighting during the Marco Polo Bridge Incident.

Japanese propaganda during the Sino-Japanese War. The Marco Polo Bridge Incident battle between the Chinese Nationalist (Kuomintang) and the Imperial Japanese Army. “1937” flashes on the screen with explosion in the background. Graphics over newspaper reads, “Trouble started at Lukoukiao near Peking. When Chines troops fired on Japanese soldiers” A map depicting Beijing and neighboring cities and regions. “Lukowkiao (Marco Polo Bridge) is shown on the map. Sign reads “Lu Know Kiao”. Marco Polo Bridge (Fengtai District, China) near Beijing. The Lugou Xiaoyue monument (Wanping Bridge, Fengtai District, Beijing, China) with Chinese writings. A truck drives across Marco Polo Bridge. Aerial view of Marco Polo Bridge. Soldiers marching on a wooden bridge. Chinese women running on the street in Shanghai. Refugees loaded on a truck. A woman carrying a baby. Nationalist planes in flight, bombing Shanghai to drive out Japanese soldiers. “Chinese Warplanes rain bombs in Shanghai” reads one newspaper headline. “590 Killed..War At Shanghai’s Front Door” reads another headline. The Palace Hotel (Swatch Art Peace Hotel 23 East Nanjing Road (Bund 19), Shanghai 200002, China) in Shanghai. Debris and destroyed buildings from damage by Chinese Nationalist plane bombings. Large group of refugees leaving Shanghai. Chinese Nationalist plane in sky. Buildings on fire. “Nanyang Bros. Tob. Co. Ltd Godown No.3” building on fire. Japanese soldiers running in two straight lines. Japanese troops sit on moving truck. Japanese troops with fire hoses to put out flames. Another plane in the sky. A column of Japanese soldiers fire rifles in the air with Japanese flag behind them. Soldiers shooting anti-aircraft gun into the air.

Date: 1937, July 7
Duration: 2 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079745
Beginnings of the Second Sino-Japanese war

Sign over American Embassy in China. Colonel William Mayer, former military attache in that embassy relates events precipitating Second Sino-Japanese war. Scenes of the Marco Polo bridge near Peking, on night of July 7, 1937, as Japanese artillery bombards the area. Animated map shows movement of Japanese forces out of Manchuria to occupy Peiping and Tientsin. Victorious Japanese troops stand atop a building, raising their flags and shouting cries of victory. Japanese army officers sit around a table smiling and contended and others walk in a group. Chinese artillery crews are seen retaliating as they fire field pieces at Japanese positions in Shanghai. Shells explode in background, and Chinese infantry advance through damaged buildings and rubble. Animated map shows Shanghai and other cities, and film transitions to view of the bustling city of Shanghai on the Yangtze River. In the seaport, large ocean liners and freighters, as well as tug boats and Junks, are seen. What looks like a Japanese Tachikawa Ki.54 Type 1 transport plane takes off over a Chinese pagoda. Double-decker buses travel through the streets. Rickshaws are also seen. Map outlines the foreign residential areas of the French Concession and the International Settlement. American, British and Japanese flags are shown in the International Settlement. Detachments of troops from Japan, Britain, France, and United States Marines are seen. A U.S. Marine is posted as a sentry at the Shanghai Power Company. Coolies carry heavy bucket on a long pole. British, French and Japanese troops also performed sentry duties. Japanese troops and armored cars are seen. A scuffle breaks out in August, 1937, and Japanese soldiers start moving in trucks, take up firing positions, and begin firing guns from their armored cars. Map shows Chinese counterattack pushing the Japanese contingent toward the Khangpoo River. Next it shows Japanese warships and reinforcements in the Yangtze River and their advance toward Woosung and Shanghai. Views of Japanese warships bombarding the shore and large explosions from their striking shells. Beachhead is shown South of Shanghai, where two divisions of Japanese infantry are seen arriving in landing craft. They advance across the fields toward Shanghai. Map shows Chinese withdrawals to West and South, toward Nanking and Hangchow. Chinese medics along with infantry march in retreat. Japanese pilots are seen being briefed. Next, Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are seen in flight, and bombardiers and other crew in them. Bombs falling on the city. Civilians running for cover as bombs explode. Aichi D3A1 aircraft dropping bombs. The Shanghai waterfront being bombed and civilians running.

Date: 1937
Duration: 5 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025182
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