U.S. Marines of the First Division, engage fortified Japanese defenders on on Peleliu Island,in World War II. U.S. Marine using a flame thrower to flush Japanese defenders out of underground bunker. Riflemen stand ready and fire, hitting one trying to escape. A marine firing a Pack Howitzer. Marines running across the beach, when one is hit by Japanese gunfire and falls. Another Marine bending over him. Explosion with white smoke next to two Marines. Three Marines carrying one wounded on a litter. Many dead marines lie covered on a beach and others fingerprint them. Marines running with a wounded comrade on a stretcher. Two help another walk and one carries a wonded buddy over his shoulder. Marines carry wounded on stretchers to landing craft for evacuation to the hospital ship, USS Samaritan (AH-10) offshore. View of Higgins boats from the USS Leedstown (APA-56) lined up alongside the ship bringing casualties from shore. View on deck of the Samaritan as litters are hoisted up and received by the staff. Surgeons at work in the hospital ship operating theater.
During U.S. Marines invasion of Peleliu and Angaur. Soldiers of 81st Army Division in Landing Crafts en route to Angaur Island, Palau. Marines head towards the beach. Japanese snipers in sunken boats offshore at Peleliu are shelled. U.S. Marines shot down by sniper. Sign board reads CIC (Combat Information Center). Marines fire machine guns at Japanese enemy. Dead Japanese soldiers on ground. Wounded Marines placed on litter and assisted to walk. (World War II period).
Signing of the Treaty of San Francisco by the Allied Powers and Japan, September 8, 1951 in San Francisco, California. Secretary of State Dean Rusk is seen shaking hands with Japanese Foreign Minister Okazaki Katsuo, in 1952. American troops remaining in Japan engage in training for Defense. They practice assaults from small boats, charge overland, simulate fighting in empty industrial sites. Flag of Japan being raised while Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida and officials stand at attention and American officers salute. American troops in formation salute. Japanese troops march in parade.
Japan as the land of tradition, culture and mannerisms. Views: Japanese uses large suspended log to strike large bell in Shinto temple. Japanese in traditional dress as Samuri, demonstrate use of bow and arrow while galloping on horseback. Two Japanese men practice bayonet dueling with wooden rifles. American occupation troops marching into Japan, as population watches apprehensively. Scenes of postwar devastation.
Trade fair in Osaka, Japan. Sign written in Japanese (katakana characters) saying “シェルアイスメーカー” (“Shell Ice Maker” in English). Shell Ice Maker machine is demonstrated. Water flows over chilling columns on which it freezes and then cracks and falls into collection box. Crushed ice falls into the ice maker collection box. Sign at exhibit states its capacity is 2 tons per day of ice. A Japanese man working for Japan Pepsi Cola Company (present day Pepsi Japan franchise now under Suntory) shows a scale model of a Pepsi Cola bottling plant. Japanese man explains the Pepsi Cola bottling plant model. Bottles of Pepsi products are seen behind the man. Logo of Pepsi Cola is displayed on the Pepsi Cola booth in the trade fair
Parents take a newborn baby for a Miyamairi (literally "shrine visit") to pray for good health at a Shinto shrine in Japan, during World War II. A Japanese man writes his child’s name using a calligraphy pen. Man displays his child’s name in front of an altar. A Japanese couple takes their newborn child to a Shinto shrine. The couple and the child’s grandmother sit in front of a clerk. The grandmother holds the child as mother sits next to her. The Shinto priest recites a prayer and swings a tamagushi right and left. The priest gives holy sake to the mother for the child. She feeds sake (symbolically) to child and then she drinks it. Priest folds the paper of Japanese writing and gives it to the family.
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