Japanese people work to help soldiers and contribute to the war effort on the home front in Japan during World War II. Man puts charcoal into a gas tank of bus. Charcoal bus departs. Japanese soldier's caps being made on sewing machine. School children collect metals. Boy buys Japanese war bond at a post office. People put coins into a safe. Monoplane (fighter) being contributed by a school. Several Japanese biplane aircraft take off. Small Japanese tanks at a parade in Tokyo with view of Imperial Palace in background. People watch the tanks.
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.
Surrender of Japanese Imperial forces leads to end of World War II. American planes approach Atsugi Air Base in Japan. Wrecked Japanese planes on airfield. Japanese labor works on airfield. C-54 aircraft lands in Atsugi. General Douglas MacArthur disembarks the plane. USS Missouri in Tokyo bay. Surrender ceremonies aboard USS Missouri. Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mamoru Shegemitsu (with cane), General Yoshijiro Umezu, Major General Yatsuji Nagai, Katsuo Okazaki, Rear Admiral Tadatoshi Tomioka, Toshikazu Kase, and Lieutenant General Suichi Miyakazi on deck of USS Missouri. Cameramen record event. General MacArthur speaks on mike. American officers surround General MacArthur. Surrender Instrument on table. Eleven men Japanese Delegation move ahead to sign the Surrender Instrument. Mamoru Shegemitsu signs Surrender Instrument. General Jonathan Wainwright and Lieutenant General Sir Arthur E Percival of British Army step forward with General MacArthur to sign Surrender Instrument. Map shows surrender locations like China, Manchuria, South West Pacific, Central Pacific, Japan, South Korea and Philippines.
U.S. 6th Marine Division 4th Marines destroy Japanese caves in Okinawa. Japanese soldier holding his head, seated at mouth of blasted cave. Other dead Japanese behind him. Japanese in shorts comes towards a Marine in the foreground who holds a canteen of water. Japanese with arms and legs all burned. He is led along path. (World War II period).
Wrecked Japanese planes at an airfield in Naha, Okinawa. Wrecked Japanese planes and hangars. Wrecked Japanese revetment with demolished plane in it. Marines examine wrecked Japanese bomber at Naha airfield. Marine sits in cockpit of damaged Japanese fighter plane. Wreckage on airfield.
Action in Okinawa. Japanese plane makes a bombing run over hills. Japanese plane attacks advancing U.S. Marine units on hill. Explosions on hill. Dogfight between American and Japanese plane. The Japanese plane comes down in flames and crashes on hill. Marines advance up the hill. Marine fires rifles at Japanese snipers hiding in village. (World War II; WWII;World War 2; WW2)
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