U.S. Navy ships shell Okinawa and Japanese kamikaze suicide planes hit USS Maryland (BB-46) during World War 2. USS Maryland (BB-46) in silhouette. Destroyer in the far background. Tracers fired at Japanese aircraft overhead. Flak explodes around Japanese aircraft. Black smoke. Japanese plane head toward ship. A dramatic large explosion in the sea directly in front of the camera position. American ship in distance explodes in flame and smoke. Okinawa in the background. Other vessels around ship. Japanese aircraft burns spiraling down. Long trail of black smoke and then airplane crashes. Cruiser at anchor. Battleship fires in the background. Cruiser sends light signals.
Japanese propaganda film "War Record of Nippon Parachute Troops", in English, made during World War 2. Japanese Para Troops check their parachutes and board transport air crafts. Planes take off from Malay air base in Malaysia to capture Allied air base in Palembang, Indonesia. Naval ship in waters of 'Straits of Malacca'. Japanese parachute troops jump off the airplanes over Palembang air base near River Musi as Allied forces fire anti aircraft guns. Japanese exchange gunfire with Dutch Allied troops. Japanese paratrooperss capture Palembang airbase. Wreck of Allied fighter aircraft and abandoned anti aircraft guns.
Damage caused due to bombing raids on Tokyo. Burned houses, ruined buildings,burned trees and massive devastation in Tokyo soon after the end of World War 2. Totally demolished Shiba district. Skeleton of a large building in Shiba district of Tokyo city. Rubble and ruins everywhere.
Skeleton of a large building. Scenes of destruction in Japan soon after end of World War 2 fighting. Japanese buildings and small shacks. Japanese civilians tear down air raid shelters in Shiba district of Tokyo city. Scenes of rubble and damage from war bombing. Damaged Buddhist club building.
An assortment of Japanese planes scattered all over in the grass at Tokyo municipal airport. Included are a Japanese "Shiragiku" plane with green cross on side. A helicopter flying by. A 2PA-B3 plane built by Seversky corporation (based on the P35 fighter, purchased pre-war as a long-range escort fighter but sold off for civil use). Japanese "hickory" plane. Scrapped Douglas DC5 transport . Several DC-3s and other unidentified aircraft are also seen. Salvaged Japanese planes from World War II. Hangars and airfield. An American C-47 and small high wing monoplane with radial engine (possibly a UC-81).Transport ship on bay and a Japanese Mitsubishi C5M "Babs" reconnaissance aircraft.
Aerial view of French Port of Brest during World War II. Allied General Walter M Robertson commanding officer of 2nd Infantry Division accepts surrender from General der Fallschirmtruppe Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke commanding officer of German Afrika Korps. Allies take German troops as prisoners of war. Aerial view of destroyed French port of Brest.
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