U.S. submarine on surface of a bay in Japanese waters, during World War 2. It fires at boats and installations in the head of the bay. View of gun crew on the submarine as they load and fire a deck gun. sunset view as the submarine cruises across the bay firing two 5 inch deck guns.Crew members throwing empty shell casings overboard. Officers on conning tower looking through binoculars. Crew continues to fire the guns rapidly, as sunlight fades. Some striking views of clouds at sunset.
The strafing and bombing of Japanese installations in the Pacific Theater by the U.S. aircraft during World War II. Aerial view of the target area. Smoke rises from explosions on the ground. Buildings on the ground. Smoke arises from explosions on the island as seen from gun camera footage of U.S. aircraft attacking Japanese enemy targets.
Ruins in a Japanese city after Allied bombings of World War II. People pulling carts. Damaged and bombed-out buildings. Japanese people walk past debris. A burned train.
A United States soldier climbs down into a Japanese Shinyo suicide motorboat found in the Kerama Islands during World War 2. Soldier begins to drive the retrieved Japanese motorboat. Motorboat driven by an American soldier underway circling along the beach of Kerama Islands at high speed. United States soldiers docking Shinyo suicide motorboat after testing.
April 1, 1946: “Operation “Road’s End.” View from the Destroyer, USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830) as it accompanies Imperial Japanese Navy submarines headed out of Sasebo Bay, headed to "Point Deep Six," (reportedly about 60 km west of Nagasaki and off the Gotō Islands) where they are to be scuttled by demolition charges and/or gunfire from the Larson or the USS Nereus (AS-17) (not seen). Captain Bell and Commander D.A. Mckee are seen on deck of the Larson with a Japanese interpreter who is issuing instructions to the skeleton Japanese crews through a megaphone. Views of the submarines underway.
Various Japanese ships hit by United States cruisers during Operation Road's End after WWII. Smoke and fire rising from the targeted ships. View of Japanese ships sinking.
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