Damage caused in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. Men try to loosen a U.S. army jeep stuck in mud. Prow of wrecked Japanese ship Kyusyu Maru sticks up from water. Beached Japanese freighter in the background. Abandoned Japanese field piece hidden in shrubs. A wrecked Japanese truck. Palm trees in an area. Tree tops showing destruction. U.S. soldier examines a Japanese antiaircraft gun on a beach.
A Japanese kimono fashion show in Japan. Two Japanese women wearing kimonos perform a traditional tea ceremony. A Japanese woman models a printed kimono. Two men remove an elaborate kimono from a kimono display rack. A woman goes onstage to demonstrate how to wear the kimono. Male attendants help the girl wear kimono. A man brings a bolt of fabric as a woman models the kimono. A woman stretches her arms as she demonstrates the long sleeves of her printed kimono. Three Japanese women model kimonos. Japanese woman poses as she models her kimono.
Japanese army captures Shao-chow, China during World War II. Animated map depicts Guilin in Guangxi, some towns in Hunan, and Guangdong provinces. Japanese troops march across rural areas. A damaged bridge. Japanese troops on barges. Japanese troops fire artillery guns on field. Japanese troops advance into the city and on streets. Troops capture the city.
View of a motorboat heading toward an Japanese Imperial Navy Niagra-class light cruiser anchored near a submarine, in waters off Kiska,in the Aleutian Islands, during World War 2. Scene shifts to Japanese naval guns firing. A U.S. Army Air forces B-24 Liberator bomber is seen in flight overhead. Explosion and smoke fills scene next to Japanese camera ship, and then another bomb explodes in the water nearby. A Japanese submarine and destroyer are in the background. Japanese ship fires anti-aircraft guns at a U.S. PBY-5 Catalina in flight overhead. Camera follows flight of the Catalina past ship's funnel which is emitting black smoke. Another bomb hits water near the ship. More anti-aircraft fire is seen from the ship. The Catalina turns away, with a slight trail of smoke behind. Next, a large explosion is seen from a bomb striking near the shore. A Catalina, flying toward the camera ship, passes over a hill, through black flak clouds, and is struck. It descends, emitting trailing puffs of black smoke and strikes the shoreline in an explosion and black smoke.
J Film begins showing the Japanese ocean liner Tatsuta Maru underway at sea. A slate and photo are shown dedicating the film to Stephen Ordway. a boy of the youngest generation. Interior of a building shows the Japanese Chairman of the Society for International Cultural Relations (Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai) speaking. Two Japanese women in boat. Fisherman throws net. Many Japanese boatmen pulling on long hawsers to bring boats toward the beach. Mountains surrounding houses in a village. A Japanese woman sits in a traditional veranda-like engawa, in which she arranges flowers (ikebana). She stands and adjusts her traditional kimona garment, helped by a younger woman. Several Geisha girls are seen in various activities and walking alond a sidewalk. One performs a traditional slow dance before the camera.
U.S. Task Force combat against enemy in the Pacific Theater depicts use of war bond money during World War II. Task force ships underway. A blinker signal is given from a ship. Formation of U.S. Army Air Force aircraft overhead. U.S. Navy officers discuss charts aboard a ship. U.S. sailors manning a gun. A U.S. submarine rises on water surface. Aircraft parked on the deck of a carrier. A U.S. aircraft takes off from the carrier to protect the advancing convoy. Navy guns aboard a ship are fired. U.S. aircraft peel off. Japanese bombers drop bombs on a U.S. convoy underway at sea. Ships burn after being attacked. A U.S. ship sinks. A Japanese pilot in the cockpit of a bomber. A Japanese bomber is downed by U.S. antiaircraft fire. U.S. Marines disembark from a ship and board a landing craft to assault a Japanese held island. A formation of aircraft. Marines wade ashore. The Marines advance on a beach. Japanese soldiers march on the beach. An aircraft crashes.
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