Carrier planes of U.S. Navy 3rd fleet strike Japan. Torpedo planes bomb Japanese fleet in a sea. Carrier planes strafe ships, airbases, railroads and factories in Japan. (World War II period).
Conventional and incendiary bombing of Japan mainland by U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress bomber aircraft during World War II. Aerial view of smoke rising from targets after bombing. Aerial views of Japan.
From a 1943 newsreel covering the Doolittle Raid on Japan in April 1942. United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) in Japanese waters. B-25 Mitchell medium bomber planes lined up on the deck of the carrier. Lt. Col. James Doolittle and Hornet skipper Captain Marc A Mitscher with the 80 volunteers seated near a 500lb bomb on board. He ties a Japanese medal (awarded to U.S. officers for humanitarian aid to Japanese people) on the bomb. The carrier in heavy seas 800 miles off the Japanese coast. A Japanese patrol boat is sighted and sunk. The survivors are taken prisoners. The crew readies the loaded bombers. General Doolittle in the cockpit as he leads the takes off. The planes take off in rough weather to bomb Japan. The Yokosuka Naval Base bombed and ablaze. The planes bomb armed plants, rail yards and oil refineries all over Japan. Soldiers examine a wrecked B-25 in Japan. U.S. pilots hold traditional Chinese umbrellas and pose with a Chinese man. Chongqing: Soong May-ling, better known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek, awards General Doolittle and his men for the gallant raid. (World War II period).
General Douglas MacArthur exits a building in occupied Japan. General Matthew Ridgway greets officers and officials in Japan. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles waves farewell and boards an airplane in Japan. Roman Catholic Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York greets American soldiers and Japanese people. Vice President and Mrs. Richard Nixon are greeted upon arrival in Japan. Ordinary American soldiers meet ordinary Japanese people.
Animated map of Japan explains the geologic formation and the geographic placing of the Japanese islands. Japan is the land of rising sun. Animated map explains many islands in Japan. Tokyo and the Pacific Ocean drawn on the globe. Animated map shows the four main islands (from north to south) Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu in Japan. Mountain range is explained on animated map. View of forest and mountains.
Shintoism as a religion practiced in Japan. A Shinto priest reads from a paper. A torii found in a Shinto shrine garden. View of the “floating” torii gate of the Itsukushima Shrine (1-1 Miyajimacho, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima 739-0588, Japan) in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. A Japanese man stands under the “floating” torii gate. Two Shinto priests walking. Stone stairs leading to a Shinto shrine. A man bows at a small shrine. Façade of a Shinto shrine (likely the Kitano Tenmangū Shrine in Kyoto, Japan). Crowds of worshippers visit a Shinto shrine. The Imperial Chrysanthemum Seal (kikumon) is displayed on the side of a Shinto gate. Priests perform purification rituals. Japanese woman performs rituals. Priest gives blessing to people.
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