Japanese Lieutenant General steps from a headquarters building and walks toward airfield ramp, during World War 2. He poses for photograph with staff officers in background. In change of scene, The general, dressed in flight gear, is escorted with an aide, to a kawasaki ki-49 bomber (Helen), which they board through a door in the roundel on the aircraft fuselage. The General goes forward to pilot's seat and secures cockpit canopy. The aircraft is seen taking off. change of scene shows a Japanese Squadron Commander standing on a step stool, to brief his pilots. After the briefing, they salute and go to their aircraft. Engine being started on a kawasaki ki-49 bomber.Two are seen taking off as ground crews wave to them.
United States Navy FJ-3 aircraft being towed by a yellow tractor up the deck of USS Bonhomme Richard (CV-31) in waters off coast of California. The aircraft is from Navy Squadron VF-211 (Red Checkertails). It carries tail code "G" of Carrier Group 21. Ordnance men load Sidewinder missile on underside of wings of FJ-3 aircraft. A man polishes nose of the missile as another man conducts flashlight test check on the nose. The FJ-3 aircraft is catapulted from the carrier.
Attack on Japanese shore during World War II. U.S. gun camera footage.
Pictures immortalizing Japanese naval officers killed in battle. Japanese wording on screen. Flowers, branches of trees and a wooden temple structure. (World War II period).
Film begins showing a Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-67 bomber parked in the grass at a Japanese airfield right after the end of World War II. American fighter aircraft fly overhead. Camera pans around the Japanese bomber with closeup of its engines. View from the rear showing its twin tail. Next, the camera focuses on a Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-67 medium bomber showing it from a tail view. The camera pans around the aircraft and then to many other multi-engine aircraft parked all over the field. Camera takes closeup of another Mitsubishi Ki-67. Film ends as a U.S. Army Air Forces C54 transport plane flies overhead.
A rough map of Asia is shown.Inner Mongolian horsemen are seen silhouetted against the sky on a hill top where several tents are pitched. They appear to be gathering for a meeting of sorts. Closeups of the horsemen gathered and listening to one speaking to them. Snow-covered mountains are in the far distant background. Various views of the horsemen moving about in groups. An old Chinese man smokes a long pipe. The national flag of the Republic of China flies in front of a building. View of entrance to the French Concession in Shanghai, where several French uniformed police hold the French tricolor flag and others monitor persons coming and going. A group of Chinese soldiers remove items from their clothing as they prepare to enter the area. A group of French firemen is seen and then a number of Chinese civilians, some carrying belongings, and some with children, are seen evacuating an area, under supervision of Chinese men wearing armbands. Scene shifts to view from starboard bow of a large vessel at sea. The ocean is quite rough and waves break with foam. View from the deck, upward shows various lines and rigging of the ship. More views show it to be a battleship. Formations of Japanese warships on maneuvers, firing their heavy guns. Formation of U.S. Dreadnought era battleships firing their 12-inch guns in double turrets. View from bridge of one, with forward double guns visible below, while she is underway in heavy seas. Naval guns on a battleship, being maneuvered into position for firing. Smaller Japanese gunboats being led in formation by a 3-stacker Isokaze-class destroyer. The Japanese battleships Nagato and her sister ship Mutsu, both displaying curved funnels. Other Japanese warships, including Kamikaze-class destroyers, the aircraft carrier Ryūjō, and a Kongō-class battleship.