Damage in Hiroshima, Japan after the atomic bomb attack in August 1945. A map shows the explosion range with in 1/6 miles. Buildings in Hiroshima after the atomic bomb strike. The wooden structure of Hiroshima Castle is demolished due to bombing. Less damaged Hiroshima City Hall. A soldier inspects the floor and railing of Yorozuya Bridge located 0.6 miles from the explosion zero point. Burn shadow marks from posts on the bridge indicate direction of the explosion. The soldier stands on a shadow area created by the stride of a pedestrian who had been crossing the bridge at the time of the explosion. The soldier marks in chalk the shoes prints from the shadow of the person who had been crossing the bridge at the moment of the blast.
Invasion of Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Coming aboard the flagship of Task Force 58 is Admiral Marc Mitscher. Conferences in Guam come to an end. Officers walk. U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander in Chief, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz sends an armada of 1400 vessels to Okinawa in the Ryukyu Islands. Fleet underway to Okinawa. Troops of the U.S. 10th Army division play cards, play music and dance on the deck to entertain themselves. Officer distributes money to the soldiers aboard the ship. Troops stand with money. Guns of the fleet fire at land. Rockets being fired at shore. Landing crafts reach the shore. Troops walk on the shore in Okinawa. Japanese dugouts and pillboxes being destroyed with grenades. Soldiers talk and share food with civilians on the island.
British and Indian combat troops recapture Mandalay, Burma after three years of Japanese occupation during World War II. Blast in the city. A series of blasts occur in the city. A Burmese temple in the fore ground. Troop in prone position fire rifle. Troops fire artillery. Military tanks advance in the city, temple in the background. The capture of Fort Dufferin (present day Mandalay Palace) from the Japanese. Army trucks advance in the city. Troops advance in a jeep. Japanese prisoners captured and brought to British camp. Burmese temple with a statue of an elephant and a dragon.
U.S. 3rd infantry troops advance in a valley of Germany during World War II. U.S. military tanks advance. German prisoners, hunched over to avoid fire from their own troops, are rushed to safer areas. 1500 German prisoners of war captured by the 3rd Army in Germany. Military trucks arrive. Dead bodies of German troops and horses lying on the ground. Rocket attacks on the European front. Multi-banked firing units give support to artillery. The rockets are fired from a remote-control box. Troops fire guns. U.S. forces uses mobile rocket projectors into German towns.
Willys automobile company makes post war use of military Jeeps as tractor, light truck and passenger car, in Toledo, Ohio. Men drive military Jeeps out of a building. Jeeps used as tractor for attachments of plower and harvest machine. Jeeps used as a sack making machine. conveyor belts attached to the jeeps. Jeep being used as shredder and independent power unit. (World War II period)
Dignitaries meet for Potsdam Conference in Cecilienhof, Germany. United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower greets President Harry S. Truman at Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. President Truman salutes the marching troops. Troops march with flags. President and general review troops. Palace of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern in Potsdam. United Kingdom Prime Minister Clement Attlee arrives. President Truman meets Attlee and British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. Russian leader Joseph Stalin arrives. Stalin shake hands with Attlee. Truman meets Stalin. Truman, Attlee and Stalin pose. They all sit at a round table. (World War II period)
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