General of the Japanese Imperial Army Tomoyuki Yamashita on official vist in Germany during World War II. The Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita enters a room. The General shakes hand with a German officer. General Yamashita presents a sword to the German officer. Other Japanese delegation officers and German officers stand in the background. The German General speaks to the Japanese General. Both of them shake hands. A Japanese officer takes out the sword from its cover. General Yamashita holds the sword in his hands. Japanese script written on the sword. The officer holds the sword in his hand.
Film begins showing sailors in battle gear manning Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft guns beside flight deck of U.S. aircraft carrier, during World War 2. Navy Task Force 58 ships, including a cruiser and another aircraft carrier, are seen in background. View of SBD Douglas Dauntless dive bomber aircraft on the carrier flight deck. Two have engines running.The rest are parked with wings folded. Next, the aircraft are seen being sent on takeoffs by a white shirt on deck. The number "6" on her flight deck identifies her as the USS Enterprise (CV-6). Views of several Douglas Dauntless aircraft flying off her deck. Glimpse of aircraft in formation from a different Squadron, bearing checkerboard markings on their tails. View from above of 5 of the aircraft in formation above the sea below. Gun camera views of U.S. aircraft strafing Japanese ships. One explodes in fireball and smoke. U.S. aircraft firing rockets that strike a Japanese carrier, setting it on fire, and causing an escort ship to blow up. Task Force 58 aircraft strike Japanese coastal installations and strafe several Japanese airfields destroying parked Japanese aircraft. They attack industrial sites causing fires and explosions. Gun cameras show aircraft firing rockets at lines of communication and striking more Japanese airfields.
Japanese prisoners surrender in Okinawa during the Pacific War of World War II. Japanese soldiers move across river and rugged terrain. Allied soldiers fire artillery and attack Japanese installations. Dead Japanese soldiers on field. Attack on ship underway at sea. Japanese prisoner urges surrender and speaks over microphone. Japanese prisoners surrender.
Japanese troops fight in Hankou, China during World War II. A line of Japanese soldiers march across a field. Japanese gun crew push an artillery gun. They load shells and fire artillery gun. A shell being loaded into artillery gun as seen from inside the gun barrel. Japanese tanks fire at enemy positions. Japanese soldiers fire machine guns. A wounded man carried away on litter. Artillery being fired on field. A Japanese bomber over Takuan bomb ground targets. Smoke billows up from explosions.
Japanese officers arrive by train in a Japanese town during World War II. Japanese troops lined up on dock. A Japanese battleship docked in the background. Troops board the battleship. Troops lined up at a railroad station. Japanese officials disembark from a train and walk by the troops lined up. The officials get into cars. A Japanese officer seated in a horse-drawn carriage moving along a road.
Funeral services for Japanese General Baron Mineo Osumi in Tokyo during World War II. A man carries a box, containing ashes of Japanese General Osumi, followed by other men at an airfield in Tokyo. All men dressed in black. Japanese pilots salute. A Japanese Buddhist monk bows in front of the pictures of Japanese Generals (killed along with General Osumi after their plane was shot down by Chinese guerrillas) with boxes of ashes placed in front of them. Portrait of General Mineo Osumi. Japanese General Hisaichi Terauchi leads relatives and officers.
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