Battle of Corregidor in Philippines during World War II. Japanese flag being hoisted in Corregidor after the surrender by United States forces in 1942. U.S. troops in Japanese prison camp. Wreckage after the battle. A map of Philippines. Allied invasion fleet underway at sea towards Corregidor. Naval guns and aircraft bombard the island. Explosions occur on the island. U.S. Army Air Forces aircraft in flight U.S. 503rd Air Regiment are aboard U.S. Army Air Forces aircraft. Paratroopers jump and descend. Paratroopers advance inland. U.S. Army 24th Division soldiers come ashore in landing crafts. Troops fight against the Japanese. Shells being loaded in artillery. Soldiers fire rifles.
German Kriegsmarine auxiliary battle cruiser Thor (HSK 4) docks in Japan during World War 2. A Kriegsmarine sailor uses a camera. Two naval officers climbing stairs. A German Kriegsmarine sailor stands on guard. The auxiliary cruiser’s captain, KzS Günther Gumprich, meets with Japanese naval officers in Yokohama. A portrait of Adolf Hitler is hanging on the wall behind Captain Gumprich. German and Japanese naval officers raising their beer glasses. Flags of Japan and Nazi Germany. A simple wooden Torii gate. Kriegsmarine officers, including Captain Gumprich, tour Japan while the cruiser Thor is being refitted. A stone tōrō lantern in a Japanese Shinto shrine. German officers inspect walking canes and observing souvenirs for sale. A rest house for German officers in Japan, with the Nazi swastika flag hanging on a flagpole in front of the property. Kriegsmarine officers resting inside a rest house and rowing boats on a lake. A Kriegsmarine sailor points to Mount Fuji (Fujisan) in Shizuoka Prefecture, near Tokyo. Mount Fuji covered with snow on top. The flags of Nazi Germany and Japan are waving in front of Mount Fuji.
81st Infantry Division “Wildcats” mortar and artillery crews bombard Japanese positions at Suicide Hill during the Battle of Angaur in World War II. Artillery officers communicate and give orders through telephone and walkie-talkie. An M2 4.2-inch mortar firing as a crewman load shells into it. Explosion from mortar fire hitting Japanese positions. Artillery crew firing howitzer. Crewmen duck and cover their ears as mortar fire. Japanese positions are bombarded by mortar and artillery fire all day and night. Medics treat wounded patients the day after the bombardment. Medics lay down a stretcher carrying a soldier. They place another soldier on a stretcher. The medics carry the soldier away. Medics drive a Jeep carrying a wounded soldier on a stretcher. A wounded man being carried over by two soldiers. Soldiers resting outside a makeshift hospital. A doctor treats the wounds of 322nd Regimental Commander Colonel Benjamin W. Venable. Colonel Venable receives IV fluids Close view of IV fluid bottles hanging from ceiling. Medics carry Colenel Venable out of hospital.
Crates of supplies, trucks, and a crane at a United States Army base in Burma during World War II. Men unloading barrels of oil in Burma. Two of them are wearing Indian turbans. Rows of barrels and sheds with supplies destined for China. Shells to be shipped to China. United States Army troops loading shells into trucks and aircraft. Allied infantries advance under Republic P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft cover. Gun camera view of 1st Air Commando group P-47 fighter strafing Japanese positions and buildings in Central Burma, 90 miles southwest of Mandalay. Some Japanese areas on fire. British infantry advancing on the ground as United States fighters provide cover. Explosion in Japanese installment.
Japanese women and children mourn and follow behind a hearse during a funeral procession of Mr. Shinzo Akagi, special deputy general director of the Shanghai Industrial Bureau, who was shot dead by a Chinese nationalist group in World War II. Japanese soldiers lead the procession on the street. Crowds of civilians watch the procession in Shanghai, China. The Shanghai Municipal Council and Japanese consulate general attend the funeral. The procession crosses a bridge.
Japanese aircraft shot down in the Pacific Ocean as seen from the USS Saratoga (CV-3) during World War II. Black smoke seen in the water. Tracers are also found. Thick black smoke rises over the water. A Navy officer removes his hat. Crewmen put out fire on edge of flight deck. Pilots watch the smoke from a burning aircraft on deck. The sky aft gunnery station after it fired at Japanese planes. Aircraft above a gun director. A ship firing from a distance. Tracers firing and some blasts from Mark 12 5"/38 caliber dual purpose naval guns at night. Wild sound from the narration of Dr. Edgar Maurice Cortright, United States Navy Lieutenant, as he recounts his experience on board the USS Saratoga at the time of its bombing by Japanese planes.
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