Taiwanese people attend a Chinese New Year festival parade in Taipei, Formosa (present day Taipei, Taiwan) during Japanese colonial rule in World War II. A busy street. Crowds convene on the sidewalk to watch a festival. A Japanese ice cream shop behind crowds. A group of men perform a serpentine-like dragon dance. A man performs acrobatics in front of a group performing a lion dance. Man performs lion dance. A boy pushes an artillery gun. A man with a papier-mâché donkey costume. Signs and banners depicting Chinese products such as Tiger Balm ointment. Chinese women dressed in elaborate traditional costumes on top of floats. Men carry an intricate model of a pagoda. A float of a symbolic god. People performing dance in the parade. The Taiwanese people watch the parade. A policeman stands in the foreground. People on the streets and decorative floats in the parade.
Japanese women welcome GIs in Japan. Japanese women wearing traditional kimonos dance on a dockside welcoming GIs from the United States. GIs on the ship approaching the dock watch the women dance. The women performing an angel dance wave small U.S. flags. The soldiers, bound to Korea as replacements, disembark from the ship holding their baggages.
Evaluation of Japanese bomb-carrying balloons sent across the Pacific to the United States by Japan during World War 2. Gun camera footage of American fighter planes from Aleutian Island bases firing at Japanese balloons en route to the Pacific coast of the United States. A balloon bomb which reached the shores of the United States. but did not explode is examined by United States Army soldiers. They unfold the rice paper parachute portion of the balloon and examine its construction. Close-up views of the balloon control mechanism are shown, including a circular frame that would hold anti-personnel and incendiary bombs. Details of the wet cell battery and ballast weights are shown, including barometric aneroid switches which would operate to release ballast from simple hooks, as needed, to control balloon altitude. Narrator indicates it is believed the main purpose of the bombs was to start brush and forest fires.
Guadalcanal campaign in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. U.S. Marine Corps General Alexander Archer Vandegrift describes the Guadalcanal campaign. Ships at sea. Planes in flight. Landing craft heads towards shore. Allied troops disembark landing crafts. Men carry cartons and load onto truck. U.S. flag is hoisted and soldiers salute. Japanese prisoners march and sit on ground. A soldier climbs up a palm tree. Soldiers are decorated with badges. Wounded soldiers are at 'Hospital Station'. Dead Japanese soldiers lying on ground. Smoke trail rises. Air Force personnel beside aircraft. A plane lands. Sign on aircraft: 'Spook', ' Leis Lady' and 'Boomerang'. Aircraft in flight. Fleet underway at sea. A formation of planes in flight.
OSS (Office of Strategic Services) activities in Burma during World War II. Natives ride elephants. They carry weapons with them. Captured Japanese prisoners and their belongings. Interrogation of captured Japanese prisoners. OSS personnel talks to a native.
U.S. Navy Admiral Chester William Nimitz visits fKwajalein Island, Marshall Islands, in World War 2. . Admiral Nimitz and his party casually visit various places on the island, Remnants of Japanese barracks and fortifications are seen. Tents and palm trees in the background. The party in jeeps. They inspect debris and remnants of Japanese flags.
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