Japanese-American recruits at Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States. Japanese-American soldiers march with rifles. Soldiers exercise in field and an instructor demonstrates steps to them. Guard stand past Headquarters Company 2nd Infantry Combat Team. Combat team boys stand in line. Boys from relocation center (internment camp) are the volunteers. Hawaiian boys go for broke in training. Soldiers march and get training with rifles. They get training to throw hand grenade and use gas mask. Crew of 37 mm gun gets training. (World War II period).
U.S. Marines in action on Iwo Jima during World War 2. Sign: 'Ten Good Japs (Japanese) Here'. U.S. Marines climb on rocks with dog and look for snipers. Dead bodies of Japanese soldiers lay where they fell in their defensive position amongst rocks. U.S. Marine soldier carves sand stone grave marker containing image of crucifix and Christ.
U.S. marines ot the 9th Marine Regiment, operating from the 4th Marine Division's zone of action, during later phase of the battle for Iwo Jima in World War 2. (Their mission is to sweep the last hostile troops from the ridge in the southeast corner of the 3rd Marine Division's zone of operation.) They move cautiously along extremely rough terrain on the ridge, to flush out any remaining pockets of Japanese resistance. A marine carefully scouts an area of large boulders and potential Japanese hiding places. Another marine is seen silhouetted atop the ridgeline. A marine hurries down from the ridge after placing a demolition charge. He hunkers down with several other marines sheltered just below the ridge as the demolition charge explodes raising brown smoke followed by white smoke. The marines then stand and cautiously approach the ridge.
Adolf Hitler greet Japanese officers in Berlin. People walk in a hall. Three men stand together and talk. Men shake hands. General Walther von Brauchitsch arrives and sits with his officers. General walks in to a room. Officers follow him. He meets Adolf Hitler and shakes hands with him. Japanese officers stand in line, Adolf Hitler shakes hands with them one by one.
Zenbei Horikiri, the new Ambassador of Japan to the Kingdom of Italy, presents his credentials to King Victor Emmanuel III in Rome, Italy during World War II. Hokiri stands with an Italian officer during the ceremony at the Quirinal Palace. To his right, behind him, similarly dressed, is Shun'ichi Kase,secretary to Japanese Foreign Minister Yōsuke Matsuoka. (Shun'ichi later served as chargé d’affaires in Italy commencing in 1943.) Japanese and Italian officers are part of the two-nation entourage that emerges from the palace following the event. They proceed down the steps of the Quirinal Palace (Palazzo del Quirinale, Piazza del Quirinale, 00187 Roma RM, Italy) and across the Piazza del Quirinale, where camera shows a glimpse of one of the statues at the Obelisk and Fountain of Castor and Pollux (containing sculptures of Castor and Pollux as horse tamers). Next, a motorcade of the officials' cars drives out of the palace complex, past two guard posts.
Post-invasion views of Japanese fortifications destroyed by U.S. Naval gunfire prior to the U.S. amphibious assault on Iwo Jima in World War 2. Remains of Japanese defensive positions on Iwo Jima. Steel-reinforced concrete fortifications, including pill boxes, heavy gun emplacements, and block houses, destroyed by U.S. naval heavy guns. A marine stands near destroyed concrete bunker. U.S. Flag flies high above the scene. U.S. battleships underway at sea.
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