View of Japanese aircraft carrier, Hiryu, near Yokosuka, Japan. Japanese Naval officers in white uniforms stand on flight deck. Shinto priest prays at shrine during the Commisioning ceremony. Naval officers bow to the shrine. Officers receive awards. Japanese flag hoisted at stern of the ship. Naval officers salute the Japanese flag and pose for a photograph on flight deck.
Japanese flag flies in front of building. Japanese sailor operates lever of valves in engine room of submarine. Japanese Navy sailors in training test batteries and receive instruction in care of batteries. Instructor explains principles of underwater sound. Japanese Navy students get instruction from senior officers.
Japanese naval officer instructs Japanese sailors in training on underwater sound through a diagram on blackboard. Students leave the class room. Japanese Navy officer wears headphone to check sound. Japanese student makes sound in a pipe and the other wears stethoscope-like device on ears.
United States 1st Marine Division troops advance towards Japanese enemy forces at Peleliu Island, Palau in World War II. View of Japanese aircraft on field. Marines hold Japanese soldiers at gunpoint. War wrecked rooftops of large huts. Damaged Japanese aircraft.
Mutilated bodies of dead Japanese in trench at Peleliu Island, Palau. Piece of cloth with Japanese slogan over one of the dead Japanese. United States 5th Marine Division troops fire at Japanese enemy. (World War II period).
Heavy road rollers working to level a new captured airstrip on Leyte Island during World War 2. U.S. soldiers work laying down Marston Matting. General MacArthur and General G C Kenny visit base near Tacloban on Leyte, Philippine Island and inspect the Marston mat effort. Good views of low flying P-38 Lightning aircraft in flight just above the airfield. Japanese bomber aircraft is fired upon by forces at the airbase. View of aftermath of bombing on Air Base, with destruction seen. Japanese planes attack a supply depot and destroyer ships. Views of several Japanese kamikaze attack aircraft flying toward U.S. Navy ships in Leyte Gulf and being shot off course. A Japanese Kamikaze aircraft crashes into a landing craft infantry (LCI).
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