The invasion of the Philippines by Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) troops during World War II. A Japanese pilot flying an airplane over Luzon. A high-altitude view of the area. Japanese Army General Masaharu Homma rides a horse on a field. General Homma leaves an old Filipino house. An assistant on horseback follows General Homma. He looks at a table map and a wall map in his office. A white elephant statuette is seen on the table. Occupation forces of Japanese soldiers firing artillery on battlefield.
Activities of U.S. Marines in Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. The marines advance with machine guns on their shoulders. Flames and smoke rise from a hill. Men advance on the field. A small hill in the background. The marines help Japanese prisoners. They help wounded Japanese soldiers uphill. A Japanese soldier salutes. A marine talks over a walkie-talkie. Men and tanks along a road. The marines talk to captured Japanese soldiers. They examine a dead body along the road. The men rest along the road. A flamethrower going off in the background. An airplane over the hill.
Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, United States during World War II. A Japanese aircraft carrier underway at sea. Japanese officials aboard the aircraft carrier discuss amongst themselves. An airplane takes off from the aircraft carrier ship for attack. Japanese sailors watch the airplane. Airplanes fly in formation overhead.
A private high-wing parasol monoplane takes off and passes directly over the camera. A glimpse of factories and smoke stacks in the background, during takeoff. From that airplane, the Japanese ocean liner, Chichibu Maru, is seen underway in water below. Scene shifts completely to interior of a Japanese steel mill, where fiery molten steel rushes out of an open hearth furnace; fire shoots upward from a bessemer converter furnace; A conveyer transports a large crucible of molten steel inside a plant; closeup of its contents being poured into another container. An open hearth furnace about to disgorge its molten steel, with some already running out. Japanese steel workers standing on platform as a crucible of flaming steel passes on a conveyer. Molten steel flaming brightly in various areas within the steel mill as conveyer moves a large crucible in foreground. Closeup of a flaming steel-filled crucible. Scene shifts to workers in a Japanese shipyard. A number of commercial ships are in the waters behind them. Camera changes focus to scaffolding surrounding a large ocean-going ship under construction. Next it shows another nearly-completed ship with "Chichibu Maru" painted on her hull. Next, the Chichibu Maru is seen going down the ways as she is launched on 8 May, 1929. (She would complete fitting out on 10 March, 1930.) Closeup of the hull as she plunges into the water on launch. Some crew and yard workers look down from her deck. Banners are displayed from the launching ceremony. View from a small boat moving around the Chichibu Maru, as she departs on an ocean voyage. Her passengers line the decks, waving goodbyes.
Japanese troops and leaders surrender to the Allies after their defeat in World War II. Tanks being demolished during disarmament in Japan. United States troops advance with tanks. Imperial Japanese Army officers surrender their swords and salute to the British forces in Malaya (Malaysia). A Japanese officer surrenders his guntÅ or military sword. Captured Japanese soldiers march on a dirt road amongst a heavy rainfall.
United States 6th Tank Battalion of 24th Infantry Division at Naha in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. United States M4A3 Sherman tanks drive past on a dirt road. Wrecked Japanese aircraft on ground. Smoke rises from an explosion on hillside. Wrecked aircraft inside a Japanese hangar. Marine fills a water tank. Marines fire 155mm Howitzers at Japanese positions. Marines inspect Japanese artillery installation.
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