Aircraft land at Bien Hoa Air Base in Vietnam. Camouflaged Douglas C-47 Skytrain military transport taxis and makes take off run. Cessna O-1E lands. Camouflaged USAF C-130E lands. VNAF F-5A lands. North American Jet Fighter aircraft F-100Ds makes take off runs. U.S. army U-8D lands. North American Jet Fighter aircraft F-100Ds land. View of USAF C-7A landing. USAF DC-130A lands. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. personnel at Bien Hoa Air Base in Vietnam. Personnel standing in line outside the chapel and dining hall Cross sign on chapel at Bien Hoa AB. Personnel standing in line outside chapel. Air force personnel go towards chapel. Personnel stand in line outside dining hall. Air force personnel put down from van. Van pass away. Personnel are in line. (Vietnam War period).
Flight line activities at Bien Hoa Air Base in Vietnam. Parked A-1Es on steel matting. U.S. UH-1Bs and UH-1Ds take off from dirt field. Helicopters stir up a cloud of dust.
A Japanese militaristic propaganda film on the material and spiritual strength of Japan. A number of slates appear in Japanese. As opening slates recede, music plays and a male chorus sings. Views of water as seen from window on a moving ship. This transitions into views of mountains and landscape as viewed from a moving train. Then, industrial sites are seen from the passing train. Film ends showing cattle grazing and some being used to pull carts of farm crops. Views of a farming village.
A dramatization. Opening scene shows two newsgirls selling papers on a street corner in the Ginza district of Tokyo. One calls out to passersby (unseen). She looks up at a clock tower showing it is almost midnight. The weather is cold and the girls are trying to stay warm. Views of neon signs on business establishments in the area. Scene shifts to men and women dancing to accordian music in a night club. A couple leaving the club obtain their coats and put them on. The woman glances at a watch on her finger. Next scene shows headlights of a moving car and its horn is heard blowing several times. Then lights of several cars are seen. Scene shifts back to the newspaper girls now joined by another girl and a boy. Scene shifts to Manchuria, where a troop of Japanese cavalry are riding in formation on a dusty road. Sounds of machine gun fire are heard in background. Japanese soldiers run past rocks. Two carry a Type 11 37 mm infantry support gun. Others carry boxes of ammunition. Glimpse of soldiers setting up the 37mm gun as another uses a periscopic sight and rangefinder. Several soldiers at another location are firing light machine guns supported by bipods. Closeup of a Japanese soldier silhouetted against the sky. Scene shifts back to the four newspaper children. They all say goodnight and start to leave. One of the girls steps from the corner, and is struck by a taxicab, apparently carrying her parents who've come to take her home. The driver jumps out and carries her to the sidewalk and her parents rush to her side. Next, a collection of dolls is seen in the girl's room, where she is lying on a bed. A doctor speaks with her parents. Later, another woman and a different doctor are seen with the parents at the girl's bedside. The girl begins to speak anxiously. The parents are dismayed and her mother speaks earnestly to her and cradles her head.
Film opens showing map of Asia and black clouds coming from all around the world to enclose Japan. A street scene with commercial displays of lights and modern architecture. Hollywood movie advertisements, including one for the 1931 Hollywood movie "Confessions of a Co-Ed," starring Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney, and Norman Foster. Japanese newspapers reporting on communist activities. View of a woman's skirt and shoes as she walks along a sidewalk in Western clothing fashions. Similar view of a man. Japanese woman in Western fashions holding a compact and powdering her face. Closeup of the woman's face, with lipstick applied. She winks at the camera. A Japanese man and woman dressed in Western fashions, walking together. They sit together at a cafe table sipping sodas through straws. Behind them on the wsll is posted an advertisement for the 1930 movie, "Girl of the Golden west" starring Ann Harding. Japanese people in western fashions hurrying along a city street past others in more traditional Japanese garb. A Japanese dressed in the latest Western golfing attire, teeing off on a golf course. Two boy caddies stand next to him. Laborers in a glen using pickaxes to contour the ground (possibly for a golf course). View of a large school building with many uniformed school girls performing calisthenics in the schoolyard. Final scene reverts to the opening map and shows the dark clouds being dispelled from Japan.
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