Japanese Kamikaze aircraft attacking U.S. Navy Task Force off Okinawa. They attack the Aircraft Carriers Yorktown, Saratoga, and Bunker Hill. View from deck of USS Yorktown (CV-10) as a kamikaze, hit and on fire, passes directly overhead and crashes into the ocean just past the deck of the ship. The Saratoga is hit by 4 Kamikaze planes. 315 U.S. sailors and airmen killed or wounded. Crew struggles to control fires and damage and care for casualties.The attacks continue and the USS Bunker Hill is struck by 2 Kamikaze planes and is on fire with heavy smoke rising as crew tries desperately to save her. The Cruiser Wilkes-Barre comes alongside spraying fire hoses in attempt to aid the stricken Bunker Hill. The Wilkes-Barre passes respirators to firefighters aboard the Bunker Hill. Rescue boats pick up crewmen who were blown off the deck into the sea. 373 killed and 264 injured on the Bunker Hill. (World War II period).
Japanese battleships and other warships fire their guns in live fire exercises at sea off Japan. Closeups from various angles of the Battleship, Nagato, firing her 16-inch guns. Following the live firing exercise, the warships maneuver at high speed in formation. Views of heavy wakes raised by their high speed operations.
American soldiers and Japanese girls out for a stroll in Tokyo, Japan. Trees in the background. They talk amongst themselves. The stubby feet and bobby socks of the soldiers and girls. (World War II period).
Soon after the end of World War 2, Japanese children walk in a trench in Tokyo, Japan. Group of boys fishing above a dock. Fire gutted building in the background in war ravaged Japan. Wrecked buildings and houses from bombing. Citizens living in poverty. Men stand outside the shacks. A woman holds a cat in her arms outside a shack.
A Japanese fireman walks towards an underground fire hydrant in Tokyo, Japan. He opens the steel cover and takes a large rod which is used to open the main valve. He makes the hose connection to the hydrant. (World War II period).
A double mouth fire plug used all over Tokyo, Japan. Buildings and houses in the background in post-war Japan. Small air raid shelters made of earth, wood beams and cross bars, seen soon after the end of World War 2. Japanese people including women, and men in military uniforms, walk on the Shinbashi Bridge along The Ginza Street, Chuo-Ward, Tokyo.
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