USS Crosley rescued 45 Japanese survivors. United States officer meets Japanese official during the reunion ceremony. United States Naval Officers open their shoes and pray in traditional Japanese way. Japanese priest performs ceremony inside a temple. Japanese civilians aboard the ship. Children eat and drink.
April 1, 1946: “Operation “Road’s End.” View from the Destroyer, USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830) as it accompanies Imperial Japanese Navy submarines headed out of Sasebo Bay, headed to "Point Deep Six," (reportedly about 60 km west of Nagasaki and off the Gotō Islands) where they are to be scuttled by demolition charges and/or gunfire from the Larson or the USS Nereus (AS-17) (not seen). Captain Bell and Commander D.A. Mckee are seen on deck of the Larson with a Japanese interpreter who is issuing instructions to the skeleton Japanese crews through a megaphone. Views of the submarines underway.
Various Japanese ships hit by United States cruisers during Operation Road's End after WWII. Smoke and fire rising from the targeted ships. View of Japanese ships sinking.
Captured Japanese submarine sinks during Operation Road's End. USS Chicago (CA-136) in the background. Smoke rises from the submarine after it is bombed. United States PBM Mariner flies over. Japanese submarine sinks.
Biplane on catapult of Japanese Navy ship. Japanese sailors work around biplane. Three Japanese pilots talking aboard ship. Japanese seaplane flies over mast of the ship. The biplane on rough water surface. Pilot stands on forward part of the wing to hook it to the carrier crane. Sailors watch as Japanese carrier is docked.
Wake of Japanese battleship as it starts to get underway, during World War 2. Large anchor chain being pulled up through hawse pipe. Seamen wash the chain with brush and water. Windlass turning with anchor chain. Fleet of Japanese warships underway. Submarine Lifeline in foreground. Two Japanese officers on bridge. View of ship's bow and gun barrels.
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