Scenes after fall of Hong Kong to Japanese forces during World War 2. Formation of Japanese Aichi D3A (Val) dive bombers in flight over Hong Kong. Large formations of other Japanese airplanes also over Hong Kong. victorious Japanese forces formally assert possession of Hong Kong by parading on Queens Road, as military band plays. Officers on horseback lead the parade, as Japanese troops line the roadway.
Japanese troops win the Battle of Corregidor during World War II. United States General Johnathan Matthew Wainwright and other Japanese officers at a surrender conference. Officers discuss the terms of surrender. Japanese soldiers march in compound of a building. Soldiers on top of a watch tower. Japanese troops lower an American flag and Japanese flag being raised after they capture the island of Corregidor.
A U.S. submarine patrol in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Crew members aboard USS Springer as they pull a line. A crew member comes aboard the submarine. Another unfolds a map and then folds it up again. Men on the deck as they look down at the water. Dead body of a Japanese pilot being pulled aboard. Officers and men search through the clothing of the dead Japanese pilot. A Japanese life jacket tossed to one side. Dead Japanese flier with a bloody head on the deck. Japanese script on the life preserver. Dead pilot's body tossed into a lifeline and into the water. The pilot's life jacket on the deck. Crew member uses a hunting knife to cut away part of the jacket as another crew member picks up the jacket. Friendly planes in flight over the submarine. Crew members look skyward.
Surrender of Japanese submarine 1-400 in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. The Japanese submarine 1-400 underway at sea after surrendering to American crew. A ship underway at sea. Men on the deck of the Japanese submarine. A motor whale boat with boarding party aboard goes along side the submarine. The Japanese crew lined up on the deck of the submarine 1-400. United States boarding party on the conning tower of the submarine. The Japanese submarine underway at sea.
A training film about the importance of standing watch duty for U.S. Navy sailors aboard a ship during World War II. Mix of dramatized and period footage. Enactment shows a lookout standing watch aboard a ship as he sights the periscope of an enemy submarine underway at sea. The lookout reports about the submarine to an officer. The officer looks through binoculars and gives out orders. U.S. Navy sailors called to battle stations are seen running under decks to assume positions. Torpedo from submarine detected coming toward ship. Captain gives evasive maneuver order. The Captain looks over the bridge of the ship as the torpedo misses ship. Depth charges being fired from the deck of the ship, and also rolled off the deck into the ocean, directed at the submarine. Explosions occur at sea from the depth charges. The submarine is destroyed. A sailor shows a Japanese and a Nazi German flag painted aboard the ship recording enemy vessels sunk. Next scene is a dramatized scene inside a Japanese submarine showing what would have happened if the crew member on watch was day dreaming and not paying attention. A member of the Japanese submarine crew looks at a ship through the periscope. Point of view shot through Japanese periscope of U.S. Navy ship coming into torpedo firing range. Submarine captain orders torpedoes fired. View of torpedo running in water toward U.S. Navy ship. American sailor aboard the ship executes an order a bit late and the ship gets struck by the Japanese torpedo. Dramatized scenes of Navy crew members abandoning ship and struggling in ocean waters. The sailors in water cry out for help. Dramatization of a dead sailor rising from the sea and speaking about the need to be alert while on standing watch. An inattentive and lazy sailor standing watch in contrast to an alert sailor. A ship underway at sea and sailors sleep in their bunk beds. Dead sailor calls standing watch a sacred duty.
Life of Japanese-American citizens at WRA (War Relocation Authority) internment center in United States during World War II. Life in a barracks building shows Japanese-American family in a room. Woman holding her baby. Man reading. Japanese-American officer trains a Japanese-American soldier at home. Exteriors of barracks showing flowers. Japanese-American children and women in a garden.
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