Japanese high school boys visit the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in Etajima, Hiroshima, Japan. Imperial crest above entrance of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy main building (Edashimacho, Etajima 737-2101 Hiroshima Prefecture). Exterior scenes of academy's barracks. Midshipman wearing white uniform walks. Dramatization: Sick boy reads letter lying on bed. A young girl sits beside him. The boy asks young girl for water. A boy places a plate near the sick boy and talks to him. A woman comes and sits near the boy. Woman talks to the boy. Boys run outside the house. The girl stands at doorway and smiles. A torii. A shrine in the background. View of a bridge. Tomb stone of Admiral Oyama. Tomb stone of Fleet Admiral Togo Heihachiro. Two high school boys worship at shrine during World War II.
A group of U.S. Marines, aboard a ship, lean over a map and discuss their mission to occupy an airfield at Yokosuka, Japan, at the end of world war 2..The U.S.Destroyer, USS Allen M. Sumner (DD-692), is seen in the background. Scene changes to Marines crowded in a Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP) near a troop transport ship. The craft displays a pennant bearing the number "7." Next, they approach a seaplane ramp at the Yokosuka Naval Base, where their craft lowers its door and they disembark. They march off in a formation. ( Many U.S. Marines are already seen on the base, having arrived in earlier landing craft.) Camera pans over hangars adjacent to Atsugi airfield, where debris is strewn about, including inverted remains of a Japanese transport plane and remains of two single engine fighter planes. U.S.. Marines enter a large hangar, showing blast damage on its doors. Others enter another large hangar. View from above of several Japanese Mitsubishi A6M2b Zero Fighter planes on a ramp outside a hangar. View from a high point overlooking damaged hangars, shows a bay of water with hills and some other installations at opposite water's edge. Camera pans back again to the Zero fighter planes and hangar seen earlier. Another view of fairly large body of water behind the damaged Naval base. Group of Marines marching past a hangar. Inverted Japanese aircraft in foreground. Closeup of U.S. Navy Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, U.S. Navy Fleet Admiral William Frederick Halsey, Jr. and and other officers.
Marines of U.S. 2nd Marine Division moving toward the airfield on Betio, Tarawa atoll, during their amphibious assault against Japanese forces during World War 2. A Stuart M3 light tank driving rapidly at the edge of the field. A wounded marine is brought back in a jeep, under enemy fire. Back at the beachhead, a landing vehicle tracked (LVT) is seen towing several floating packages of supplies to the shore. Chaplain's assistants tend to U.S. marine dead lying on a beach. They remove on dog tag from each for registering while leaving the other for identification. Marine General Holland M.Smith, Commander of V Amphibious Corps, and Major General Julian C. Smith, Commander. 2nd Marine Division, are seen walking together and then consulting with Rear Admiral Harry W. Hill, Commander Amphibious Group Two, Fifth Amphibious Force. Marines using a bulldozer to dig Japanese defenders out of a pill box. This yields a half dozen Japanese prisoners, the first to be taken. Wounded American marines are given first aid and then seen being lowered in steel litters into landing craft and then being transferred to a transport ship, offshore.
Activities of women in Nagano, Japan during World War II. A view of Japanese houses. Chimneys on top of a Japanese house. Kanji Chinese characters written on a blackboard. Women prepare and cook food in a kitchen. Women knit clothes. A woman brings a bucket outside. A group of women wash utensils. The women carrying shovels and other farming equipment enter a field. They carry hay. Mountains in the background. The women cultivate crops. They plow the field using shovels. Japanese women farming.
American and Australian infantry moving along a dirt path in New Guinea, during World War 2. They pass damaged Japanese tanks and are seen sitting on one posing for the camera. Coming ashore from a small boat, the troops pass a beached Japanese landing boat full of shell holes. A group of Australians, in a landing boat, display a captured Japanese flag. Allied troops moving along wet jungle paths and crossing a wooden bridge. Australian soldiers pull U.S. howitzers through the jungle mud by means of ropes. A lookout in a rugged watch tower observes a C-47 cargo plane as it airdrops supplies. View of Allied soldiers sitting around a fire enjoying their dinner.
A documentary titled 'Hell For Leather' shows combat activities of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division during wars. Dramatization shows a 1st Cavalry soldier seated on a step and his son touches the insignia of the U.S. 1st Cavalry division on the uniform. Reenacted footage of Cavalry unit battling Native American Indians at the Battle of Little Big Horn. Next scene shows training of U.S. Army cavalry troops for World War 2, as they run an obstacle course and practice bayonet drills. The troops undergo combat training. They practice amphibious landings and crawling near razor wire. Animated map shows the amphibious attacks on Los Negros Island in 1944. A ship underway and soldiers on the deck of the ship. Ship guns are fired in Battle of Los Negros. The U.S. Army troops load a Landing Craft and it gets underway. They approach the shore and get off from the landing craft at the beach. The troops hold guns and advance in jungle region, firing rifles and machine guns, engaging enemy Japanese marines protecting the airfield. The U.S. Army troops firing and advancing against the Japanese. The wounded soldiers on a stretcher. The soldiers fire artillery and mortars. View of dead Japanese troops. The U.S. troops advance. U.S. General MacArthur praises a soldier. 'Bataan' written on the barrel of a gun.
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