Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo declares war during World War II. Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo declares war on United States and Britain. Japanese officers seated. Prime Minister Tojo records the declaration for the radio. A Japanese officer reads out the declaration.
Japanese propaganda during the Sino-Japanese War. Pro-Japanese banners and flags on display in a building in Japan. People in windows waving Japanese flags and cheering. Pro-Japanese supporters in truck during a procession. A military band plays plays on a moving truck during celebration parade. Japanese women and children cheering from sidewalk. Japanese women and schoolgirls (wearing seifuku uniforms) refilling canteens for troops. Japanese children packing care packages for Japanese troops. Japanese women stitching support banners. A woman in kimono and her child arrives at an office. A man serves a girl with a cup. Japanese pilgrims visit a Shinto shrine. Japanese woman and her children bow with soldiers.
Montage with graphics sells Japanese propaganda claiming Japanese hatred as cause for Sino-Japanese War. Newspapers declaring the non-aggression pact between Republic of China and the Soviet Union. Animated map depicting how the Communist Soviet Union can encroach China’s territories. Narrator claims “It is in order to stop this power of evil, a real everlasting peace in Asia that Japan’s soldiers and sailors are giving their lives,” Japanese Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe reads a speech defending the Sino-Japanese War.
View of Ashinya Air Force Base building in Japan. 187th Regiment of 11th Airborne Division load ammunition on vehicles. They board C-54 Skymasters parked at Ashinya Air Force Base, Japan. The Aircraft takes off from airstrip. C-119 Flying Boxcar in flight. C-54 Skymasters lands at Kimpo Air Force Base in South Korea. Paratroopers disembark the aircraft and carry a wounded soldier on stretcher. Boats unloaded from C-119 Flying Boxcars at Kimpo Air Force Base. Air Force General Kenney, General Stratemeyer and retired General Spaatz tour the airbase and look at equipment lying on ground. North Korean Yak fighter plane in the background. (Korean War period.)
Actions of Italy leading up to World War II. Animated map shows Japan and the Sea of Japan on world globe. Benito Mussolini gives a speech. Italian troops invade Ethiopia. Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie addressing the League of Nations. Ethiopian native leaders and tribal soldiers gather with Emperor Selassie and pledge allegiance to him and Ethiopia at a rally against the Italian invasion. Ethiopian fighters with spears and bare feet battling well-armed Italian soldiers in vain. Newspaper heading reads 'Mussolini invades Ethiopia'. Italian aircraft drops bombs on Ethiopia. President Franklin Roosevelt in his speech denounces the Italians invading Ethiopia, noting that civilians including women and children "were being ruthlessly murdered with bombs from the air." Animations depicting the rapid speed at which the earth can be traveled by air compared to formerly by ship. Thatch roofs huts being burned by Italian soldiers in Ethiopia. Similar scenes of civilian dwellings being burned by Japanese forces in Manchuria circa 1931. Mussolini, Hitler, and Goering meeting and discussing plans over a map. The three leaders are seen smiling and laughing. Camera view from low near Hitler's feet showing Adolf Hitler raising his hand in a Nazi salute. Brief scenes of fire burning through buildings in a war torn city; German forces digging ditches or foundations; Civilians waiting in line for food relief; children putting on gas masks and raising rifles while in prone position during a training exercise; dead bodies of war victims in China.
Animated map shows area from Java Island past Asian mainland to Japan. It shows path of Japanese long range bomber aircraft from Japan to Borneo. Loose formation of bombers is seen in flight above clouds. View inside cockpit of Japanese bomber shows a child's stuffed doll hung near the windshield. Extreme closeup of crew members in cockpit of Mitsubishi Ki-21 bomber in flight. More views of aircraft in formation flying above clouds. View from a bomber of Allied warships executing evasive maneuvers in the sea below. Formation of Japanese bombers in flight toward the camera. Airborne camera focuses on one ship below during evasive maneuver. Japanese crew members in their cockpit. View from the aircraft of bombs exploding in water near Allied ship trying to evade them. One appears to have struck the ship.
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