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Japan exploits human and material resources in occupied Asian countries of its Empire, to support its war effort against the Allies (WW2)

A solitary Japanese Army sentry walks his post along a seawall in a coastal area under Japanese military control in World War II. Local people go about their daily activities in a city under Japanese administration. A Japanese military policeman, wearing a white armband, directs traffic. A Japanese Army officer converses with another Japanese military policeman. A passenger speeds past them in a rickshaw. A Japanese military officer waves a loaded truck onward. Japanese replace old buildings and install new communication lines in a city. Japanese military engineers survey and Japanese troops build lines of communication, including a railroad bridge. Japanese officials scrutinize credentials of people at a checkpoint. A Japanese soldier searches a man. People are waved through a checkpoint after their credentials are reviewed. Workers in a textile plant. Laborers at construction sites use carrying poles to transport materials. Other laborers carrying sacks of material on their backs, as they unload a barge at a waterfront. Glimpse of a Japanese controlled harbor.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058420
United States B-25 bomber and crew at Alexai point Landing Field, Attu Island, Alaska

Shown is tail section of a U.S. B-25 medium bomber, tail number 43-36154, assigned to the 11th Air Force, 77th Bombardment Squadron (Medium). Twin tails and tail gunner position and guns visible. Snowy slopes seen in background. In the first scene that shows members of the flight crew standing in front of number two engine, they are believed to be: starting back left (moving to the right behind the propeller): Armorer/Tail gunner: Samuel Ward Craig (Shelocta, PA), Pilot: Willard L. Castledine (Three Rivers, MA), Radioman/Waist Gunner: Hugh W. Wilson (Paducah, KY), (coming around to the front of the propeller on the right moving left), Navigator/Bombardier: Kemmer W. Schricker (Davenport, IA), Co-Pilot: Kenneth H. Wait (Rickreal, OR), Engineer/Turret Gunner: Roman F. Ales (Luling, TX) The crew members pull engine #2 through, with the propeller, to assure against hydraulic lock, before starting. (World War II period).

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058438
American Army recruits try on their uniforms in the United States

US Army recruits in World War 2 hold buckets of sand and stand barefoot on one leg at a time as doctor checks for flat feet and shoe sizing. A Lieutenant checks the fit of a new uniform jacket on a soldier. A group of newly recruited soldiers try on uniforms. A group of soldiers buttons their new Army overcoats

Date: 1943
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058465
King George VI of Britain reviews United States 5th Army in Africa during World War 2

King George VI reviews American troops in Africa. King George VI of Britain and Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark ride in scout car as the King reviews the United States 5th Army troops in North Africa. King George along with his Minister of War, Sir James Grigg, and American officers Lieutenant General Clark and Lieutenant General George Patton, have lunch in a park, eating from standard issue U.S. Army mess kits. King reviews a parade of 5th Army troops.

Date: 1943, June 26
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058478
Houston volunteers join military; a new cruiser ship USS Houston (CL-81) launched at a ceremony in Newport News Virginia

Scenes in Houston Texas as 1000 Houston Volunteers enlist in the military in World War 2 to avenge the loss of the USS Houston (CA-30) to the Japanese. They attend a swearing in ceremony in front of the marquee of the Loews State theater. Scene change to Newport News, Virginia as people gather for the launching of the new U.S. Navy cruiser ship USS Houston (CL-81). New cruiser launched at a colorful ceremony. Dignitaries on stand include the sponsor, Mrs. C. B. Hamill, who is seen hitting a bottle of champagne against the ship hull, and then it slides down the ways at launching.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058479
American troops complete its occupation of Attu in Aleutian Island, Alaska

'US completes occupation Attu Island '. American soldiers move across snow covered slopes at Attu in Aleutian Island. Dead Japanese soldiers in trenches. American troops move in single file, up the hill as artillery fires. Wounded soldier carried by two other soldiers. Soldiers look at Japanese equipment at a camp. Graves of Japanese soldiers. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058481