Signboard at the entrance of an office 'Consulate General of Japan, Honolulu' in Honolulu, Hawaii. Trunk and branches of a palm tree. Workers and merchants at a sidewalk restaurant. Tall grass waves in breeze at a field and white clouds in the sky over the field. A sign board 'Z Uruu' with Japanese font written under it. The Diamond Head at the Oahu Beach. A house with a large yard surrounded by trees. A hotel written with Japanese words and cars parked outside. Japanese people pass by the hotel. Signboard 'Morita Shoten' and Japanese font written below it hangs on a shop. Views of the Mokuaekaua Church, in Kailua-Kona, the oldest Christian church in the Hawaiian Islands.
On the eve of the embargo calling off shipments of scrap metal to Japan, cargo ships lined at harbor in Seattle, Washington to load with valuable junk for Nipponese war machines. Cranes load scrap metals to the cargo ships. Small tugs and boats near the ships at harbor.
Formation of U.S. 8th Air Force B-17 bombers in flight over Germany during World War 2.Gunners firing 50 caliber machine guns from various positions in a B-17, as attacking German interceptor aircraft race past. One German aircraft is hit and pieces of it fall off. B-17 enters bombing run. View of bombardier and bomb sight image. German aircraft continue attacks and gunners continue defending as the bombardier announces "bombs away." This is a high altitude mission and all crew members are on oxygen. Glimpse of pilot and copilot in cockpit. Pilot alerts gunners to a German FW-190 aircraft attacking them. Waist gunners pause to look at a German fighter smoking, as it falls, and strikes the ground in an explosion. Sequence shifts to formation of B-24 Liberator bomber on a mission with bombs visible dropping from bomb bays. Sequence shifts again, rapidly, to a formation of B-29 Superfortress bombers dropping bombs. Nighttime view of incendiary clusters being dropped on Japan. (Note: One of the B-29s seen is serial number 42-24547, assigned to the 6th Bomb Group, 315th Bomb Wing. This B-29 crashed short of the runway on 31 Dec 1944, at Borinquen Field, Puerto Rico, where the 6th bomb Group underwent combat crew training. And the B-29s shown do not display any tail codes.)
John S. Farnsworth,a former Naval officer, being sent to jail for selling United States Naval secrets to Japan in Washington D.C.,United States. Policemen escort accused traitor out from a building as cameramen record the event.
'$6,500,000 Pier Fire'. A raging fire rakes a railroad pier at Weehawken in New Jersey. Huge fire seen at the harbor. A cameraman takes pictures. Ambulances maintain vigil. In Tokyo, Japan, flames destroy the enlisted men's mess at the Palace Heights housing community. Enlisted men and their families flee from, from their Quonset type homes while the fire was being fought. People run to save their belongings.
United States aircraft at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan during the Vietnam War. United States KC-135 A aircraft being refueled at the air base. An airman climbs up a ladder and gets into a plane. KC-135 A aircraft lined up on the flight line with vehicles moving about the air base in the foreground. A sign reads ' Warning Restricted Area '. A KC-135 A aircraft taxis. Another aircraft in the foreground.
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