Idled ships and cranes at damaged port of Yokahoma, Japan, seen right after end of hostilities in World War 2. Port facilities reduced to steel skeletons from bombing by USAAF in the war. Camera pans over the city from a high point of land. Ocean in background. Wide swaths of completely burned-out areas in the foreground. There is hardly any notable human activity. Scene changes completely to aerial view from aircraft flying overhead. Brief glimpse of a U.S. B-24 Liberator bomber flying below, close to the ground (probably preparing to land). Aerial view of airfield in distance.
Camera pans over damaged areas of Yokahoma, after end of World War 2. Many buildings are damaged in a Wide area of canals and roads. Shells of larger concrete buildings standing amidst wide area of destroyed smaller buildings. Complete change of scene, to U.S. African-American airman, wire-brushing the Japanese red ball roundel from fuselage of a captured Japanese airplane.
World War 2, aerial view of air attacks (from unseen U.S. aircraft) on Japanese military camps in the slopes of mountains rising abruptly over the Keelung (aka Chi-lung, Kirun, or Kiirun) coast of Formosa (Taiwan). Clusters of small explosions are seen covering the camps
During World War 2, woman tells of selecting three, out of countless names of servicemen overseas, who have children at home. Their children were filmed. First seen is Diane Sandra Fine, one year old, daughter of Sergeant Bernard Fine, a U.S. Army mail clerk somewhere in India. Baby Diane Fine is in high chair and mother feeds her with spoon. Then she is seen in her crib, playing with a toy, and later ready to sleep. The next child seen is the son of Corporal Carl Christianson, of the 464th Quartermaster Company, serving somewhere in the Pacific. His boy sits in a high chair scribbling a drawing to be sent, along with a letter his mother is writing, to his father. Mrs. Christianson holds her son and he hugs her. The third pictures show the family of Yeoman Second Class, Earl M. Robinson. Shown are sons Terry and Danny, together with their mother, Geraldine Robinson, of Roanoke, Virginia. Three year old Danny rides on a hobby horse, while his mother dresses eighteen month old Terry. Exterior view of the Robinson home. More than 20 members of the extended Robinson family come out of the house.
Reporters and photographers in lower level of the U.S. Courthouse at Foley Square, in New York City, attempt to photograph Judith Coplon as she is escorted, under arrest, by FBI agent (Robert Granville?). A man, under arrest (Valentine Gubitchev?) hides his face as he is escorted through the reporters and photographers, who later stream out of the lower level entrance of the building. View of the Courthouse building against the sky.
U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, chairs a meeting of British and American diplomats in the United States. Cameramen stand in the background. They take photographs of the officials.
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