Departure of United States Major General Charles Andrew Willoughby from Yokohama, Japan. Maj. Gen. Willoughby inspects troops. He says good-bye to officers. He shakes hands with British Brigadier General A. K. Ferguson. Willoughby says good-bye, talks to officers, smiles and frowns.
Departure of United States Army Major General Charles Andrew Willoughby from Yokohama, Japan. Sailors stand beside the railing of a deck. The sailors pull up a rope. People stand on the ship.
French Marshal Joseph Joffre arrives in a long boat, at a dock in Yokohama, Japan. Steamships seen in the harbor, in the background. Japanese military officers await the arrival. Joffre, and his staff officers, are accompanied by a Japanese diplomat in a high hat, and Japanese military officers, as they walk along a pier. Two young Japanese girls present Joffre with bouquets of flowers. A train carrying Marshal Joffre and his staff and welcoming party arrives at the Tokyo railroad station, which is decorated with French and Japanese flags. Joffre is welcomed by an Honor Guard of the Empire and escorted across the platform toward the city, proper. Spectators line a platform on the other side of the tracks.
Air raids and battle in Japan in the Pacific Theater near the end of World War II. A cemetery of United States military soldiers in the Japanese island of Okinawa. Memorial at the tombstone of Ernie Pyle built by the 77th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army. General Doolittle, General Henry Arnold, General George Kenney, General Ennis Whitehead and other officers during a discussion standing before planes at the 48th Air Force base. B-29 aircraft advances towards Tokyo. Bomber aircraft dropping of a number of guided bombs towards their targets. Targets include Japanese airplane factories, shipping industry, military supply chains in the cities of Tokyo, Nagasaki, Nagoya, Okinawa and Yokohama of Japan. Explosion and smoke arises from bombed targets on ground. Aerial wide and close up views of a B-29 aircraft in flight. Narrator notes that on 05 August 1945, Enola Gay, a B-29, carries the atomic bomb and flies towards Hiroshima. Atomic explosion seen signifying the one in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, but narrator indicates the image seen is that of the first atomic explosion (the Trinity test) during on July 16, 1945 in New Mexico. Immense cloud of smoke and light. This atomic explosion, the first of two, was pivotal in compelling Japan to surrender unconditionally. Film ending includes public service announcement image "Buy Bonds. Hold Them. Victory Loan."
United States soldiers visit a Shinto Shrine during military occupation of Japan after WW2. A smiling Japanese woman. Two Americans enter a Japanese establishment where they attempt to follow Japanese customs, seated on the floor, sipping tea, and eating seafood with chopsticks. Japanese women look at sign advertising the movie, "Mother wore Tights" starring Betty Grable. The two Japanese women smile while viewing the sign. Scenes at U.S. Military sponsored Fair, called "Panoramic View of USA." where Japanese visitors tour smaller scale models and facsimiles of major American sites and landmarks, such as the White House, Pittsburgh "City of Steel", and famous American skyscrapers. Japanese parents and children are seen looking at Christmas displays in a local store, that includes a Santa Claus. Under the American occupation, Boy Scouts were revived in Japan. At an International Jamboree, scouts hold out a flag reading: " International Boy Scouts Troop 3, Yokohama, Japan." Japanese Boy Scouts pitch their tents and cook over campfires. American and Japanese Scoutmasters converse.
United States Missouri, destroyer warship. Allied representatives disembark from ship. They get in to the car. Japanese representatives stand. Photographers take pictures. (World War II period).