A United States soldier climbs down into a Japanese Shinyo suicide motorboat found in the Kerama Islands during World War 2. Soldier begins to drive the retrieved Japanese motorboat. Motorboat driven by an American soldier underway circling along the beach of Kerama Islands at high speed. United States soldiers docking Shinyo suicide motorboat after testing.
United States fleet of invasion craft sail toward the shore of Kerama Retto during World War 2. United States attack transport ships (APA) sailing toward the beach. A Japanese Shinyo-class suicide motorboat passes by a dock at slow speed. Motorboat underway circling along the beach at Kerama Retto. United States soldier opens the engine cover of a docked suicide motorboat. Soldier uses a screwdriver on Japanese suicide boat’s engine.
A plane takes off from Nanjing, China. Commander-in-chief General Shunroku Hata talks to a military officer in flight to Central China. General Hata and other Imperial Japanese Army officers in Central China. General Hata and other officers inspect Central China Expeditionary Army in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War (World War II).
Multiple shots of American F4F Wildcat fighter aircraft at low altitude during or shortly after the bombings on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. One airplane, smoking from its engine, flies directly over the cameraman (possibly a hit Japanese aircraft). U.S. sailors put out the fires that have engulfed aircraft on the ground during the Japanese attack. Many of the airplanes have been totally destroyed.
Bulldozer works to clear earth for the construction of an airfield in the Andreanofs, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, in 1942, during WW2. Wide panoramic views of the flat space to be used for aircraft, covered in shallow water. With map visuals, narrator describes that the U.S. Forces are in fighter range of the Japanese position at Kiska Island, and within bomber range of the Japanese position at Attu Island. A B-24 bomber aircraft moves across the makeshift airfield. U.S. soldiers standing on ladders work on aircraft engines. A bomb is loaded into an aircraft. Soldiers stand and talk, examine papers. U.S. Army Air Force troops walk toward a B-24 Liberator and spin the propellers by hand.
U.S. Army Air Force B-24 bombers fly back to base after bombing the Japanese base at Kiska Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, in 1942, during WW2. Narrator details the events of the successful mission. Close ups of the B-24 Liberators as they fly over water. Vast mountains of the Aleutian Islands in the background. The aircraft land back at the newly established U.S. base in the Andreanofs of the Aleutian Islands. Close ups of the bombers, now on the ground. U.S. soldiers exit the aircraft, inspect damage taken from Japanese fire on the fuselage. A group of U.S. pilots and crew walk across the airfield. Soldiers circle around and chat. Ending scene of soldier standing with cloudy Aleutian mountain rising in the background.
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