Two Japanese suicide boats in Okinawa, Pacific Theater. One of the suicide boats is kept just outside a cave. Another suicide boat in a cave. Wooden boxes kept near the cave. A United States Marine stands near the suicide boats.
A Japanese decoy aircraft on field in Okinawa, Pacific Theater. View of Yontan Airfield. Mountains in the background. A United States aircraft in flight. The plane drops supplies on ground. Parachutes and supplies on the ground.
Kyoto Firemen Training School, Japan. Japanese student firemen go through various phases of training. Student firemen run. Buildings in the background. Student firemen stand at attention in front of a wooded area. Two jeeps in a garage. The jeeps of firemen taken out of the garage. Several firemen stand on one of the jeeps, some jeep get down. They take out the fire hoses and join the others. Two men unload equipment from jeep.
A dining room of a middle class Japanese home in Kyoto, Japan. The family seated at the dinner table. The father is seated at the head of the table and the wife and the two daughters sit opposite. The family bows greeting to the father. The plates are passed. A daughter serves dinner. The family eats with chop sticks. The mother and elder daughter eat vegetables and rice. The father drinks tea as the younger daughter finishes her rice.
Natives working at various jobs in Okinawa, Pacific Theater. A Japanese cemetery. Grave marker in the cemetery. Sign in the cemetery reads 'Camp Goza cemetery'. Men tend graves. A sign reads 'Island Command Cemetery, Okinawa'. Jeeps on road in background. A girl walks with a baby. A sign reads 'Camp Goza Military Government'. A village in Okinawa. A horse drawn cart going down road. Native men climb from back of a truck. Workers shovel potatoes from back of a truck onto a ramp. A mule drawn cart on a muddy road.
Opening scene shows a group of Chinese school children posed under a large Chinese Nationalist KMT) flag during the 2nd Sino-Japanese War (World War II). Their teacher keeps them in order. Behind and beyond the are many Chinese people, all seemingly aware of being photographed. A glimpse closeup of older children and the teacher. Next, Soviet Lieutenant General Vasily Chuikov, advisor to Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, steps from a building, smoking a cigarette. He is accompanied by a Chinese officer. Immediately, they are joined by another Soviet General (also smoking a cigarette). The three converse, while standing next to staff cars. Several Chinese officers bid Chuikov farewell and he gets ready to enter a car in the foreground. Scene shifts to a city square where animal-drawn carts pass by a building with a Red Star on the roof and Russian writing across its top that reads: : "ОСВОБОПИТЕПЬНЦЕ" (Liberator). A huge replica medal hangs across the face of the building with a bas relief of Stalin on it. Closeup of the building front. A local boy shines the boots of a Russian soldier, while another boy sits next to him. Glimpse of street scene. Sidewalk vendors line a block in the city. Food is cooked. Several people stand near the stalls. People patronizing the merchants. [Note: this film may contain segments that are unrelated and from different places and times.]
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