A Boeing B-29 Superfortress of the United States 11th Airborne division (a four-engine heavy bomber propeller aircraft) flies over Tokyo Bay. The bomber is seen from a distance. Various U.S. Navy ships in the bay present for occupation of Japan at end of World War II. United States Light Cruiser USS San Diego CL-53 among them.
Tokyo, Japan before the Second World War. Elegant, modern salons. Japanese people wearing Western clothes having coffee at a sidewalk café. Coffee is poured into a cup. View of Tokyo Station. Passengers at Tokyo Station waiting for trains and leaving in trains. Clock shows time. A train leaves Tokyo Station. View of Tokyo Haneda International Airport (Hanedakuko, Ota City, Tokyo 144-0041, Japan). Airline passengers board a Japan Air Transport plane on tarmac at Tokyo Haneda International Airport. Plane takes off. Mountains shown including Mount Fuji.
Statue of Kannon, the Buddhist bodhisattva associated with mercy. Zōjōji temple (4 Chome-7-35 Shibakoen, Minato City, Tokyo 105-0011, Japan) and its vegetable garden show extensive damage from air raid bombings during World War 2. Rubble is scattered all over the temple grounds. A bell in Zōjōji temple. Building housing the bell shows damage. The Shiba Tōshō-gū (4 Chome-8-10 Shibakoen, Minato City, Tokyo 105-0011, Japan), enshrining the first Japanese Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, located beside the Zōjōji temple shows similar damage.
United States 3rd Fleet underway in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan during World War II. USS South Dakota off the coast. USS Missouri at anchor in Sagami-Wan into Tokyo Bay. War correspondent Norman Paige looks through binoculars. Ships of the 3rd Fleet ride at anchor off the coast of Japan. Main batteries of USS Iowa. American flag flies from the gaff of the ship. USS Missouri at anchor close to the shore of Japan. HMS Duke of York and HMS King George I underway at sea. Superstructure of USS Iowa as American flag flies from the gaff. Muzzles of a quad mount 40 inch gun. A signal plays on starboard yardarm. A gunnery officer uses a battle phone in the foreground.
Japanese Propaganda film shortly before World War II: Opening slate "La Federacion Japonesa de los gremios de exportadores e importadores con la America Latina Producida por Domei Tsusin Sha". Scenes from exterior and interior of a Radio Studio in Tokyo where a Japanese radio announcer addresses persons of Latin America and South America in Spanish. He introduces a Japanese orchestra in the radio studio which begins to play. Scenes of a map with animation of the radio signals from Japan being carried to Latin America and South America. View of the Tokyo Imperial Palace. View of the Niju-bashi Bridge. Flock of birds flying in Tokyo. Japanese crowd in streets and residential area. Many views of modern buildings for government, offices, businesses, and residential areas of Chiyoda, Tokyo. National Diet Building (1 Chome-7-1 Nagatachō, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-0014, Japan) in Chiyoda City. Embassy buildings of foreign governments. Point of view street views of busy Tokyo streets as seen from a moving vehicle or streetcar (beneath streetcar or trolley wires). View of buildings at Ginza district. View of the iconic Wako Clock Tower (4 Chome-5-11 Ginza, Chuo City, Tokyo 104-0061, Japan) and neon lights at night in Ginza.
Re-enacted broadcast of the 'Zero Hour' by Iva Ikuko Toguri as 'Orphan Ann' from Radio Tokyo. Iva Ikuko Toguri begins the broadcast, saying, 'Greetings everybody! This is your Number One Enemy, your favorite playmate, Orphan Ann on Radio Tokyo...the little sunbeam whose throat you'd like to cut! Get ready again for a vicious assault on your morale, 75 minutes of music and news for our friends...I mean, our enemies!' A male announcer, possibly her husband, Felipe d' Aquino, reads propaganda news about Pacific battles and American casualties. Toguri was wrongly tried and sentenced for being 'Tokyo Rose' a supposed Radio Tokyo character that was never identified. (World War II period).
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