Wrecked parts of U.S. ships destroyed after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II. USS Shaw sunk and damaged in a dry dock. Wrecked airplanes in a damaged hangar. Smoke rises from burning planes and hangar.
Activities of Chinese troops in China during World War II. Chinese combat troops march on a street. An officer watches through binoculars. Soldiers work with picks and shovels while constructing a road. A man places dynamite in a hole. He turns a detonator. An explosion on the road. Chinese soldiers advance. They fire rifles and Bren guns. A Chinese woman nurses and bandages the hand of a casualty on a litter. Chinese soldiers fire rifles at the Japanese from a trench.
Chinese refugees quarters in Kiukiang, China during second Sino-Japanese war. Chinese refugees receive rice. People outside the Life Methodist Episcopal Hospital. Dr. Edward C. Perkins examines a patient at a clinic. The nurse, Miss Proeg, examines a refugee Chinese girl.
Views of Pearl Harbor and environs,immediately after the Japanese air raid on December 7, 1941, that forced the U.S. into World War 2 in the Pacific. Fire smoke and Wreckage, including a Navy Catalina flying boat, on Ford Island. Mechanics salvaging parts from the remaining front half (tail missing) of a U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 bomber on the tarmac at Hickam Field. Wings from a B-17 with fuselage missing, in a hangar. Pieces of Air Forces airplanes strewn in front of damaged hangar. Pieces of U.S. Navy aircraft litter the ramp in front of a Ford Island hangar. Workers in a dinghy moving in front of bomb-damaged U.S. battleships. Workers standing on the capsized hull of the USS Arizona. A diver in suit and helmet going below decks of a sunken ship. Debris floating in the water. Pumps discharging water from a damaged battleship.
Army Air Forces records describe this as flight tests conducted at Wright Field on a Japanese Mitsubishi Type 0 MK2-SSF Hamp fighter plane, Army Air Forces (AAF) No. EB-201. (Recognized later, as a variant of the Zero, these Mitsubishi A6M3 Type 32 planes were renamed "Zeke 32.") Flight tests were made from January 9th to March 10th, 1944, to compare this aircraft with AAF fighters and to verify tests made in Australia by the Special Duties and Performance Flight of T.S.-7, Directorate of Technical Services, Melbourne. Test pilot in the cockpit with engine running. Closeup of pilot (possibly Captain Ralph C. Hoewing, who became first Commandant of the AAF Test Pilot School). He takes off from the airfield. and is seen in flight. Various aerial views of the Zero are seen including: flying overhead and from above as it flies over Ohio farmland. The pilot enters a shallow climb; and is seen from above and behind. He performs a slow descending roll. Finally, he buzzes the airfield at low altitude and high speed, and then brings the aircraft in for a smooth landing. (Note: This aircraft was rebuilt by the Allied Technical Air Intelligence Unit in Hangar 7 at Eagle Farm Airfield, Brisbane, Australia, from the wrecks of five Mitsubishi A6M3 Type 32 Zeke's captured at Buna, New Guinea, during the war.) [ Ref. WWW. hangar7.org.au ]
U.S. prisoners of war are freed in the Philippines during World War II. U.S. prisoners and Filipino civilians stand outside a building. They are liberated from a Japanese prison camp. Men talk amongst themselves. The liberated soldiers and the civilians cheer. The wounded and the sick men are carried from the camp on stretchers. Wheel carts outside the building. Men seated on the wheel carts. Hay stacks on other wheel carts. A medic talks to a soldier. A man eats a fruit.
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