Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers bomb factories and other targets in Formosa Island (present day Taiwan) and return to their base in Saipan, during World War II. Crew members attach guided bombs at dawn to the bombers. The bombers take off. Flying over Formosa Island over clouds they drop bombs on Japanese targets. Antiaircraft guns fired. The B-29 lands after a successful bombing mission. Crew of the B-29 'Tokyo Rose', first plane to fly over Japanese positions, honored at the Saipan base. Insignia on the nose of the plane. Brigadier General Hansel attaches medals on the uniforms of the crew members.
Relocation to internment camps of people of Japanese ancestrty, in the United States, due to security reasons, during World War II. School bell of relocation center at Heart Mountain, in Wyoming. Students of Japanese origin change classes. Children in a class study mathematics. A teacher teaches drawing. Students study scientific farming at a high school. Business, workers, mechanics studies by students. Evacuee doctors and nurse operate at an operation theater. Doctors and dentists check people's health. A candidate for community council chief during an election for councilmen. Voters vote during election. Trial of a criminal of relocation houses at a court. Softball Match on the beaches at weekend. An artist draws pictures of relocation homes. Sunday church and men carry benches inside for prayers. Boy scouts raise American Flag. Girl scouts, Red Cross volunteers perform various duties. Boy scouts march with U.S. national flag during a parade. Beauty queen and floats follow the parade. Smokestacks of factories at relocations centers, and evacuees walk by them. Military Police guard with a rifle watches them.
Relocation of Japanese ancestry people, in United States due to security reasons, during World War II. Nisei, the Japanese of second generation in United States, in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team of the U.S. Army. Troops march, undergo physical training. Troops trained for a combat operation. Soldiers practice firing with artillery and mortar launcher. Soldiers run through an obstacle course at Camp Shelby in Mississippi Troops of armed Nisei soldiers pass by the U.S. national flag.
Nisei, the Japanese Americans of second generation, at relocation centers (internment camps) during World War II. Infants and children at a Japanese orphanage play in a garden. Girls play on a see saw, swings and slides. Orphans dine at a mess and talk. A nurse assists infants sleep on their beds at a dormitory.
Nisei, the Japanese-American citizens of second generation, at Manzanar War Relocation center (internment camp) in California during World War II. A relocated family inside their relocation home. Mother cares her infant while the father reads a book. A father and his son's, who are U.S. Army soldiers temporarily home on furlough, sit and talk inside a relocation home. The mother sits by them. Clothes drying on a line in the house. A service star flag (showing that the family has a soldier serving in the war) hangs near a room divider, and other things and commodities inside the house. Shrubs and plantings beside camp housing units. Slated notes, "In their leisure time they have planted flowers, shrubs, and trees, and made beautiful gardens because they feel that they may become permanent residents. Japanese girls play in garden and are seen with women yards and well developed gardens of their relocation houses, including walkways, wooden bridges, and plantings.
'Go for Broke' shows the Japanese-American recruits of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team under training at Camp Shelby in Mississippi. Recruits carry rifles while marching. The recruits do jumping jacks and calisthenic exercises under direction from a trainer. A Japanese-American guard stands in front of the sign, 'Headquarters Company 442nd Infantry Combat Team.' Recruits learn to use rifle with fixed bayonets. They practice throwing hand grenades and protect themselves wearing gas masks. Soldiers practice loading and firing a 37mm artillery gun. (World War II period).
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