Battle of Iwo Jima, Japan during World War II. U.S. 5th Division Marines near an artillery as they fire at a Japanese emplacement on Mount Suribachi. The marines fire an artillery. Explosion on the mountain. Smoke rises due to explosion. The U.S. Marines fire an artillery. Explosions in the foreground. U.S. Navy ships underway. The marines fire guns on the deck. Explosion in water and water splashes. The marines fire on Mount Suribachi. The marine in prone position fire guns and advance. The U.S. Medial Corps carry a wounded marine on a stretcher. The medics treat the wounded. Dead Japanese soldiers. The marines fire guns. Smoke rises on the mountain. A U.S. Navy dive bomber in flight and drop bombs on Mount Suribachi. The bombers in flight drop bombs. Explosions on Suribachi. The bombers in flight. U.S. Marines advance towards the caves of Japanese soldiers on the mountain. U.S. Marines capture Mount Suribachi. U.S. Navy ships underway. The marines raises U.S. flag over Mount Suribachi.
A film shows the geographical features of Taiwan mountains during Japanese colonial period. A view of the mountainous area. Japanese soldier with a bag on his back looks at the mountains. A mountain fort in the mountains with Japanese flag flying on flagpole. A view of clouds over the mountains. A group of civilian campers wake in morning and look at cloud formations below them. The campers with bags hanged on their back climb steps on the mountains and set off across footbridge to further ascend mountain. A camper heading towards the footbridge. Flowers that grow in mountainous ranges of Formosa. A group of school children on mountain expedition. Girls climb up the mountain. They walk on a footbridge. A view of the mountainous area. Fort surrounded by the mountains.
A train passes a railroad station in Taiwan, during Japanese colonial period. A child's Japanese book. A boy reads from the book in Japanese. The Hokuho shrine. A Buddhist temple in the northern sector. A sign board. The structures on top of a shrine. People visit the shrine. A Monument in northern Taiwan. A train moves past behind the monument. The train crosses a railroad bridge. Sugarcane fields as seen from fast moving train window. A factory. The railway tracks. Animated map of the route of the train.
Posters during a Shōwa period repatriation in Japan. A billboard depicting a woman with two children. Billboard thanks the Japanese for their hard work and hope for a new Japan. A poster reads “Kyushu connection” in Japanese, depicts a family and the Japanese flag drawn on it.
Sergeant Richard Sakakida testifying during Yamashita trial in Manila, Philippines after World War II. American officers and prosecutors enter into the court room. Maps on a wall. Hawaiian-born Japanese-American (Nisei) sergeant Richard Sakakida sits in a chair and is questioned. He answers about his birth and his capture by Japanese forces. He answers about Japanese attitude during capture and his assignment as interpreter in HQ of General Yamashita.
Film showing city of Hiroshima, Japan, before and after the August 6, 1945 dropping of the atomic bomb over the city in World War 2. Sequence opens on what the narrator says is August 5, 1945, the day before the event (but the footage is likely from before that date). Camera pans over the city of Hiroshima before the atomic bomb destroyed the city. Japanese air raid lookouts are seen on watch for allied bombers. View of atomic bomb detonation as seen from aircraft high overhead (this is actually a view of the Nagasaki blast, not the Hiroshima blast despite narrator's comments). Next, the complete destruction of the city of Hiroshima is seen from camera at low altitude showing the four and one half square miles of the city flattened and burned. A Japanese hospital still functioning, with red cross flag on it. Hospital workers retrieving wounded victims of the bombing. Ambulatory victims clustered in doorways and halls. Shadow image of a large industrial valve wheel burned onto wall behind it. Similar image of a ladder burned onto a wall. The decorative pattern on a woman's dress burned onto skin of her back. Japanese physicians treating victims of thermal and radiation burns. Views of various victims, including some children, and their respective injuries. Scene shifts forward one year, to August 6, 1946. Children are lined up outside a school building, and then seen inside their classroom. Disfiguration and wounds on children resulting from injuries are still evident on the children at their desks. Sequence shifts again, this time to an early United Nations meeting with delegates grappling with the issue of controlling nuclear power and atomic weapons. Closeup view of American delegates, including James F. Byrnes (Secretary of State)and James B. Conant, President of Harvard University in the assembly. Closeups of representatives from South Asian nations. Closeup of USSR delegation, headed by Foreign Minister, Vyacheslav Molotov. Signs identifying delegates from Colombia, Egypt, Iraq, Bolivia, China. Final sequence shows several U.S. atomic scientists in their respective laboratories, including Enrico Fermi and Vannevar Bush. United States representative to the UN, Warren Austin, speaking about the so-called Baruch Plan, for international control of atomic weapons. (Principal author, Bernard Baruch, is standing behind speaker's left shoulder.) USSR delegation, headed by permanent representative, Andrei Gromyko, who is seen presenting the Soviet plan. View of explosion and mushroom cloud during U.S. Operation Crossroads atomic bomb test in the Pacific.
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