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Mopping up operations at end of battle for Okinawa in World War II. Numerous Japanese prisoners of war impounded.
Opening scene shows tents housing more than 1500 Japanese prisoners of war at Kadena, Okinawa during World War 2. The area is surrounded by fencing and, as camera pans, it shows an American soldier overlooking the prison camp as he holds a Browning M1919A6 light machine gun. Another view of the prison compound with warning sign against admittance and another sign reading: "PW inclosure." As narrator refers to "mopping up operations" a jeep carrying more Japanese POWs drives past the signs. Ambulatory Japanese POW entering the prison compound past armed military policeman. View from inside the compound as Japanese POWs enter. A POW being frisked by a U.S. soldier. Closeups of some Japanese prisoners standing behind barbed wire enclosure. American soldier makes notes as he interviews a prisoner. POWs receiving haircuts under a tent in the stockade. Others washing and shaving at an outdoor trough of water. Some seen playing a board game at a tent. POWs in a wrestling contest, surrounded by others watching. Prisoners offloading supplies from a truck and stacking them in their compound. POWs cooking food in large kettles and distributing it to other prisoners. Various views of prisoners in the compound. U.S. medics attending to a wounded POW, administering blood plasma. Numerous Japanese prisoners loosely assembled outdoors. Next, on June 22, 1945, U.S. troops are assembled for a flag raising ceremony. The U.S. flag is raised on a tall flagpole to mark the securing of Okinawa. An unidentified U.S. Army Lieutenant General leads the ceremony, saluting as the colors are raised. (Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., Commander, 10th Army that took Okinawa, was killed 4 days earlier, on June 18, 1945.)
Rural population's contribution to Japanese war efforts in farm and home industries during World War II
Rural population of Japan engaged in war production and support of Japan during World War 2. Japanese rural area shows farm families outside native huts. Women cook food, pump water and wash vegetables in creek. Mud and wood huts with straw roofs. Farmers in field. Harvesting in farm. Lumbers piled up outside a building. Civilian men work with lumber. Women prepare handicrafts outside house. Home industries. Interiors show workers at work including men, women, and children working in war effort. Japanese family eats food and elderly Japanese woman smokes a pipe. Japanese people walk through rubble and debris after Great Kanto earthquake of 1923. Shows areas of rubble and workers digging through earthquake rubble, along with United States citizens involved in effort on the ground and through material relief support from America.
Early Bell 30 helicopter sprays area with pesticides to combat insects on crops in the United States.
Helicopter sprays insecticides on crops being produced during World War 2 in the United States. Crowd watches an early Bell 30 helicopter taking off. It bears label "Experimental Agricultural Field Service." Bell 30 helicopter with registration NX92844 in flight. Helicopter sprays area with insecticides.
View of Gasoline ration cards, and people stand on long line for rationed goods at stores in U.S. during World War II.
Close up views of a World War 2 Gasoline Ration Card, and of the application to apply for the card. A late 1930's car driving up to a gasoline service station in Washington DC with the dome of the U.S. Capitol building visible in the background. People stand in a long line in front of stores in a busy city, waiting to obtain a rationed good.
U.S. form the Berlin Airlift to supply the city over pre-arranged air corridors.
Summary of events after World War II. Statistics shows reduction in armed forces after WWII. Reduction in arms shows submarines, ships and other arms. Bombers are destroyed. Blasting planes on airfield. Junk piles and wreckage of equipment. Factories are converted to peacetime production. Workers operating various machinery in factories. Delegates seated in the UN assembly. Andrei Gromyko walks out of a debate on the Iranian question. The U.S. proclaims the Marshall Plan. Various delegates at Paris meet including Winston Churchill. Animated map of Europe demonstrates the expansion of communism and the iron curtain post WW2. Supplies for Europe are loaded on ships at docks as part of Marshall Plan. Reconstruction work progresses in Europe. Farmer rides new American tractor (Massey Harris tractor) away from ship docks and back to his farm. Communists demonstrate and blockade Berlin. Russians reinforce blockade. U.S. planes flying supplies to blockaded city in Berlin Airlift operation. U.S. military planes landing on airfield of Germany. Berlin Blockade is lifted by Russians.
The Tidal Basin with cherry blossoms, Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument in Washington DC.
Monuments and memorials of historic importance in Washington DC. The Tidal Basin with cherry blossoms. Women pose. The Lincoln Memorial (2 Lincoln Memorial Cir NW, Washington, DC 20002, United States). Steps lead to Lincoln Memorial building. The Washington Monument near the west end of the National Mall.
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