A repatriation ship carrying 1,025 Japanese taken as prisoners by Russia during the end of World War II arrives at the Port of Maizuru in Japan. Ashes of the dead Japanese being brought down the ship in white bags. Japanese captives held by Russia in Siberian camps disembark from the ship and meet their family and friends.
Views of damage caused in Waikiki residential area caused by Japanese attack. Shows automobiles and houses hit by shrapnel and bullets. Japanese planes can be seen in sky and men carrying wounded on stretcher. Broken, main water line and wrecked buildings are shown. Civilian men and women rushing around during bombing and immediate aftermath. School children and women inside a building. View of Japanese Midget suicide submarine in water. (World War II period).
Shows wreck of Japanese two-man suicide submarine and San Hosea football team acting as civil guards on tour. Views of Lieutenant Philip Rasmeusan who shot down the first Japanese planes during the attack, Lieutenant George Welch and Lieutenant Harry Brown, who accounted for shooting down six of the Japanese planes. (World War II period).
U.S. Navy warships of Task Force 51, Joint Expeditionary Force, commanded by Vice Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, bombard Japanese positions at the start of the campaign against Japanese-held Iwo Jima, during World War 2. Mount Suribachi visible at end of the island. The Eldorado (AGC-11), Vice Admiral Turner's flagship is seen. At time 00:20 to 1:04, the heavy cruiser USS Chester ( CA-27 ) is seen in camouflage Measure 32, design 9d, following another unidentified heavy cruiser, shelling the island of Iwo Jima. Time codes 1:05 to 1:12 show the battleship USS Tennessee (BB-43). In time codes 1:14 through 1:31 the heavy cruiser USS Salt Lake City ( CA-25) and the USS Vicksburg, CL-86, a Cleveland Class light cruiser, in camouflage (measure 33, design 6D), are seen shelling Japanese anti-aircraft gun emplacements around the east side of Motoyama airfield. The battleship, USS Idaho (BB-42) is seen in time codes 1:32 to 1:53. Other, unidentified U.S. warships are also seen bombarding the Island.
Strafing of Japanese shore installations during World War II. Attack on a Japanese freighter . The projectile of the tracers visible. Tracer ammunition used to attack a plane. A Japanese freighter on fire and smoke rising up. U.S. gun camera footage.
U.S. Navy officers inspect captured Japanese Mitsubishi A6M, the infamous "Zero" fighter plane. The captured enemy aircraft has been painted over with U.S. markings and tested at Naval Air Station in Anacostia . A test pilot prepares to fly the captured plane. The captured Japanese Zero taxiing out for take off. Japanese Zero in flight. (World War II period).
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