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Role of U.S. Naval gunfire during battle for Okinawa, Japan, during World War II.

U.S. Battleships cruising in the Pacific. Close views of naval 16 inch gun barrels Navy personnel manning radio and teletype stations in a communications center. (They are shirtless, presumably due to heat.) They receive a message from General Bruckner, Commanding General, 10th Army, to Admiral Turner, Commander, Task Force 51,praising the active naval support for U.S. ground forces. Scenes of naval gunfire of all types. Japanese aircraft hit and burning. A U.S. naval 16 inch gun fires and produces a giant smoke ring.

Date: 1946, April
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027754
Independence Day celebrations at the base of Russian Tower of Liberation in Pyongyang (Liberation Day from Japan).

Shows Korean girls arriving at the base of the Russian Tower of Liberation in Pyongyang with flowers and garlands in their hands. Korean bands play and Korean National flag flutters on the tower .Girls put the flowers and garlands at the base of the tower. Russian guards raise their rifles high and fire in air to commemorate the martyred. Koreans gather in numbers with flags and banners. Pictures of Stalin and Kim II Sung can be seen. Thousands of boys and girls march in columns with Korean flags and banners in their hands, celebrating the anniversary of Korea's liberation from the Japanese.

Date: 1948, August 15
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Korean
Clip: 65675028836
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek awards medal to Colonel Doolittle and pilots from the carrier Hornet who bombed Tokyo, Japan (WW2)

Republic of China First Lady Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Soong Mei-ling) addresses army personnel and pilots at an award ceremony. Colonel James H. Doolittle and pilots from the carrier Hornet who bombed Tokyo decorated by General and Madame Chiang Kai-shek. (World War II period).

Date: 1942
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030195
Ship carrying passengers (to Japan?) greeted by relatives and friends, some carrying banners and signs in kanji.

View from ship entering harbor, with mountains behind. Several sick and disabled being assisted down gangplank by nurses and ship's crew. Other passengers disembarking and being greeted by family and friends. Emotional reunions. Some greeters carry banners and flags in kanji. Men women and children among the passengers.

Date: 1955
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032393
Film about Allied bombing campaigns against the Axis powers and Japan all over the world during World War II.

Opening scene shows British Avro Manchester bombers lined up on a field in England during World War 2. British air crew board a bomber that taxis out for takeoff. View from inside the aircraft as it lifts off on takeoff and then towards its tail on climb out. Gunner seen manning machine guns as his turret rotates during flight. Formation of Manchester bombers en route to Axis military targets in German occupied France. View from bombardiers position of ground below. The bombardier seen and bombs dropping, as viewed from another bomber in the formation. View from a bomber of railroad yard and an airport with bombs exploding on the ground. Manchester bombers on return flight home over the English Channel. They pass below formation of U.S. B-17 flying Fortresses heading toward France. Close aerial view, from below, of the formation of B-17s overhead. Scene shifts to North Africa, where American Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, famous aviator of World War I, talks pilots of Major General Jimmie Doolittle's Bomber Command. Closeup of General Doolittle smiling outside a tent. A B-17 takes off. An Army cameraman seen inside at a window of the B-17. He is to record an attack on the Sicilian port of Marsala. View from a bomber of bombs exploding along the Port's coast, and of bombs passing the camera as they fall to earth. View from below of a B-17 with battle damage to its left elevator. View from a returning B-17 as it lands at its base in North Africa. Airmen walk around a B-17 that crash landed. One airman walks under part of a bomber tail destroyed by Axis gunfire. Scene shifts to the South Pacific and Allied air attacks against Japanese targets. A formation of B-24 Liberator bombers headed toward the Japanese held island of Nauru. Views of bombs striking the island. Scene shifts again, this time to Attu in the Aleutian Islands. A U.S. Navy PBY Catalina flying boat seen in flight. A task force of U.S. Navy warships in Aleutian waters. American amphibious landing on Attu. Arms and supplies piled up on a beachhead. American forces firing artillery. Infantry search for Japanese soldiers in hiding. Bodies of dead Japanese soldiers. American wounded carried on litters. A formation of B-24 bombers headed toward the Aleutian island of Kiska. Closeups of crew members in a B-24. View of glaciers and volcanic mountains below. A bombardier releasing bombs on a Japanese submarine base and airdrome. view of bombs falling. Formation of B-24s releasing their bombs. A gunner in a B-24 firing at attacking Japanese planes and then firing in a low level strafing attack. A U.S. fighter plane lands back at its base on a water-covered runway, raising waves of water that cover cover it.

Date: 1943
Duration: 5 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033504
Bombing of Chungking (Chongqing), China, by Japan, in Second Sino-Japanese war

The Republic of China establishes its wartime capital at Chungking (Chongqing), China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Animated map depicts areas of Japanese occupation and highlights cities including Lanchow (Lanzhou), Chengtu (Chengdu), and Kunming. It highlights Chungking (Chongqing) as the Nationalist Republic of China. Chiang Kai-Shek is seen leading a group of Chinese leaders as they walk through an arched gate in Chungking (Chongqing). A busy street with shops and apartment houses in a commercial district. Busy scene of pedestrians, cart traffic, and automobiles in the road center. Boats on the Yangtze River are seen below long steep steps leading up to the streets above. Houses along the cliffs. Chinese workers digging bomb shelters into the cliffs. View from inside a shelter being hollowed out of the rock. Back in the Japanese occupied area, a car brings a Japanese Air Force leader who addresses a large group of fliers at an airbase. Next, Japanese aviator crews are seen running to their aircraft from their camp on the airfield. They take off in Mitsubishi G3M bombers to attack Chungking (Chongqing). Nakajima Ki-27 airplanes take off from the field and join in large formations overhead. A formation of Chinese World War 1 era aircraft is seen in flight to engage incoming Japanese bombers. Japanese crew member in a bomber sees the Chinese fighters and gunners in the bombers get ready to fire on them. The Chinese fighter planes dive at the bombers but are intercepted by Nakajima Ki-27 airplanes flying cover. Dogfights ensue with Chinese aircraft being shot down, and the bombers continuing their way. Air raid sirens sound in Chungking (Chongqing) and people run to their shelters, including school children. Views of bomber crews at their stations and then of bombs falling with the Yangtze River below. Bombs exploding along the riverfront and inland, along the cliffs. View of machinery operating, and Chinese workers occupied in underground factories in Chungking (Chongqing). Fires burning throughout the city from the bombing, and Chinese fire fighters with hoses working to extinguish fires.

Date: 1937
Duration: 4 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033615