Recreation activities in Japan. Japanese people rowing on boats in a lake. Athletics as a major part of recreational activities in Japan. Japanese men hiking up a snowy mountain. Japanese boys ice skating in a park. Two men engage in judo. Athletes participate in swimming and running competitions. Japanese children playing different sports in school ground.
Both of American and Japanese children ski on snow in the premises of Touou Gizyuku High School near the residence for foreign teachers hired by above High School in Hirosaki-City, Aomori-Prefecture, Nothern Part of Honshu Island, Japan. Japanese man on a sleigh pulled by horse on the street near Hirosaki Castle. The donjon of Hirosaki Castle covered with snow. Japanese school teachers and boys enjoy skiing in during winter season. The Peak of Mt. Iwaki covered with snow. Young Japanese boys take turn to ski down from snow covered slope of the roof top of the school building of Touou Gizyuku High School. Goods carried on a sleigh pulled by horse on snow. Film shot in approximately 1934-35.
Camera pans across scenes showing masses of Chinese. Narrator cites their large population as a war asset. Lt Gen. Daniel Sultan Commander of US Forces, India–Burma Theater (USFIBT) describes the Allied mission as simply "placing guns in the hands of men in order that they can kill our common enemy." He describes Japan's 1942 strategy of completely isolating China from outside help. Animated map shows Japanese forces attacking China from bases in Thailand and advancing north, driving British forces into India, and leaving Burma in Japanese hands.Glimpse of Japanese troops occupying Burma. Views of American troops evacuated to India. View of Chinese soldiers boarding U.S. Air Transport Command C-46 transport planes for flights from Kunming to Dinjan and Chabua, India. Closeup of some troops inside the cabin of a plane. Chinese soldiers await transport as a C-47 aircraft takes off in the background. Aerial view of two C-47 planes in formation. View from the air of high cloud covered mountains. Storm clouds over the mountains. Downward view from an aircraft flying over the Himalayan Mountains (called flying the "hump" by U.S. pilots). View of Chinese soldiers inside a transport plane. View out the window of a transport plane landing in India. A C-46 airplane taking off. A large formation of Chinese troops seen after more were brought from China to India, later in the war. American soldiers training troops of the Chinese 38th and 22nd Divisions. General Sultan speaks of the need to build up the U.S.Air Transport Command. Two C-47 airplanes on the ground. One named "The Joker." View of sky filled with B-24 Liberator bombers. Sky filled with C-47 transport planes. Chinese soldiers training in Kunming, climbing out of trench in live fire exercise with machine guns firing over their heads and explosive charges detonating near them. Air frame of a P-47 aircraft being loaded and several of Bell P-39 Airacobra aircraft being loaded aboard ship bound to strengthen the U.S. Army 10th and 14th Air Forces in Burma, in 1944. Covered P-47 aircraft without engines being towed by jeeps along a street in Burma. A large airfield with many U.S. fighter planes parked on its ramps. Engines being installed on P-39 aircraft. A flight line filled with P-40 aircraft displaying Chinese roundels. Some fly over a flight line of U.S. Army Air Forces P-39 aircraft. Glimpse of a fighter plane escorting a transport aircraft. A formation of B-24 Liberator bombers dropping bombs and exploding on Japanese ground targets. Workers are seen unloading large amounts of cargo from a B-24 bomber. Workers rolling a large bomb from the plane onto the tailgate of a truck.
CARE report from Chief of Mission,Japan to New York office. Japanese boy is checked for symptoms by a Japanese doctor. Mother and Father of Japanese boy sit beside him. Japanese boy checked by doctor in a hospital in Japan. Doctors and nurses in hospital. People in CARE office do their work. Woman in CARE office in New York reads a report. Packets of CARE supplies off loaded from a ship. CARE supply packets delivered to people.1950.
Explores the benefits of a 4H club activity. View of Japanese countryside. Japanese rural man fills water into bucket from a stream. Two Japanese men talk. A 4H club information paper handed out to rural Japanese man by the other man.1950.
The growth of Okinawa Island and its economy during the United States occupation period after World War II. American soldier attend to the injuries of a small Japanese girl. Japanese children watch a medic treat another girl. Lumber yard having stacks of wood. American troops with Japanese men, build houses. View of railway bridge. Two Japanese talking.
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