U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima, during World War 2. Sign: Booby Trap area Keep Out. Japanese prisoner sitting on rocks. Many U.S. marines stand and sit around him. He seems able to converse with them.. The prisoner smokes a cigarette.
Marines of the U.S. 4th Division in final phase of the battle for Iwo Jima in World War 2. Several U.S. supply ships off the coast. A U.S. C-47 transport airplane in flight overhead. U.S. marine with flame thrower strapped to his back, walking across rocky terrain. Closeup of Japanese 20cm rocket bombs; remains of primitive wooden launch trough; a threaded fuse; and a mortar shell with fins.
Fulbright Program in Japan. Two men talk in a room. Men meet and shake hands. Woman puts a telephone on table and talks. People come to Fulbright House. Japanese teacher teaches students in class. Woman gives a document to man. Animation shows four men stand in the hierarchy of 9, 12, 12 and 17. man shows a picture album. Christmas tree in room, people sit in room. Teacher in class. A man types on typewriter.
Fulbright Program in Japan. A Japanese man walks along a path and enters a house, likely at a University, where singers in an opera production are having a rehearsal. Men and women singing. The conductor, Dr. Jan Popper, stands up and shakes hands with the guest. Dr. Popper introduces the guest to a male singer. Singer bows to greet. Opera singers sing and act. Maestro Popper tells female singer not to bend too much. He tells his assistant to show her how to do it. He shows her how much to bend. Next scene shows the fully staged opera being performed on stage during a dress rehearsal of the opera workshop. View of several men sitting in the audience and watching.
Fulbright Program in Japan. Water splashes over shore. Male dancers in kimono dances at sea shore. Musician play traditional Japanese music. Conductor Jan Popper and his wife, Elizabeth Popper (née Rankin) from the United States (and Czechoslovakia, before that) watch the dance. A man comes and talks to Mr. and Mrs Popper and writes down information in note book. Man stands on deck of a ship underway at sea.
American prisoners rescued from the Japanese prison camp near Cabantuan City, Philippines, near the end of World War 2, are seen arriving at the 92nd Evacuation Hospital, in Guimba, Luzon. Opening scene shows some less able to walk, in a straw lined bamboo cart. Behind them Filipino youths are seen. Some former prisoners, who are stronger, walk amongst their rescuers and local Filipinos. (The rescue was accomplished by 121 members of the 6th Ranger Battalion and 286 Filipino guerrillas and Scouts.) Sequence contains many scenes of freed prisoners posing for the camera, smoking cigarettes, resting on the grass, and siting on log benches. One is carried from the porch of a building, on a stretcher. Several relax on rustic chairs. Closeups of some, including Colonel James Duckworth with his arm in a sling. One hobbles with help of a makeshift cane. Freed prisoners open packages containing cigarettes and treats. A full Colonel, in perfect uniform, and steel helmet (possibly commander of 75th Ranger Regiment) speaks with one of the 6th Battalion members. Freed prisoners relaxing and smoking cigarettes. Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci (with moustache) who accompanied the mission, conversing with Battalion members.
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