Gun camera footage of U.S. Army Air Force 19th Fighter Squadron, 318th Fighter Group aircraft firing rounds at Japanese aircraft during air to air combat over the area of Miyakonojo and Araikekai on Kyushu, Japan. (World War II period).
Japanese workers work at Akita Oil fields in Yabase, Japan. Laborers swing I-beam into place on new well. View of the oil well and a tower.
View of Akita Oil fields in Yabase, Japan. Tanks at crude oil collection point. Japanese worker turns valve atop the tank. View of laborer's quarters. Women hold toddlers in hand. Employee cuts a piece of steel beam with an electric torch. Workers put rotary drill into place.
Narrated in German. President Harry S Truman reads Japanese surrender announcement. Woman holds a poster that reads 'Victory Japan Surrenders'. News correspondents run in White House corridors. People celebrate VJ Day or Victory over Japan Day on streets in Chicago, San Francisco, Frisco Chinatown, and in New York City Times Square. Crowd gathers near Hotel Astor. Celebration in London with the King and Queen in horse drawn carriage leaves Buckingham Palace. Opening of British Parliament, shows Lord Edward Halifax, Lord John Allsebrook Simon, U.S. Ambassador John C Winant, Admiral Harold R Stark and a representative from Saudi Arabia arrive in a car. Crowd runs towards Buckingham Palace. The Royal family waves to the crowd from Palace balcony.
View of damaged and wrecked town of Tokyo, Japan. Japanese men pull a cart with ruins in the background. Streetcars or trolleys pass by on the road and men ride bicycles.
Japanese children walk and run out of a school building in Kyoto, Japan. Children with bags and water bottles in hand. People walk on a street in post-war Japan soon after the end of World War 2.
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