Cloud seeding for water shortage, Ashiya in Japan. Air Force personnel and Japanese civilians walk towards a United States C-130 aircraft and board the plane. Propellers rotate as the engine starts and plane takes off. Crewmen stand in open cargo door of the aircraft in flight and they unreel a hose from aircraft door. Two crewmen sit in the cargo door of the aircraft. Clouds being sprayed from the hose as it trails behind the aircraft. Crewmen look at the clouds in the sky from a window of the plane while still in flight. A Japanese man shows a note to the pilot. He stands in the cockpit.
From a dramatized civilian protection film produced as a public service announcement or PSA by the Clorox Chemical company. Shows the precautions to be taken in case of a gas attack and the first aid measures to be used after gas exposure during World War 2. Aircraft in flight. Bomb wreckage during World War II including scenes from blitz firebombed areas in Europe or England, and scenes from China under attack by Japanese. Civilians fleeing in China as a Japanese attack begins. Back in the U.S., view of a new tank rolling into final assembly at a factory, and bullets being manufactured and poured into large containers in a munitions or ammunition factory. Narrator covers various precautions to be taken in case of a gas attack while at home, and actors depict: Closing the windows and other openings in the house. Woman seals kitchen exhaust fan. Man checks and closes fireplace flue in house. A man and woman move upstairs in the house to escape fumes. Air Warden sounds alert using a spinning handheld device, and asks people to stay indoors. Clothes affected by gas attack are left outside a house. Liquid gas removed from the skin by blotting with a tissue. Exposed skin cleaned and rinsed with bleaching solution. A baking soda solution containing water used to irrigate eyes. Man takes a shower and soaks himself up. Nose irrigated with baking soda solution. In case of unavailability of first aid one must take a bath. Woman takes a shower and rinses face and eyes. War scenes including a German Luftwaffe aircraft hit and diving toward ground. Wreckage of a German warplane. Views of a bottle of bleach, and baking soda solution, and a bar of soap used as cleaning tools in gas attack.
Allied prisoners hold American flags at a Japanese prison camp in Santo Tomas University in Manila, Philippines. General Douglas Macarthur arrives at Santo Tomas on February 6. Japanese forces fire artillery at the camp on February 7 and injured prisoners are carried away for medical aid. Malnourished men and women work at the camp. People outside their thatched roof huts. Women and children eat and drink. A woman shows gratitude in finally being able to smoke a cigarette. Red Cross field workers hand over mail to the internees. Prisoners read their mail. (World War II period).
Eleanor Roosevelt arrives and addresses a public meeting in United States, wearing a red cross hat. During the speech she relates a joke involving her husband, President Roosevelt and the Japanese. It deals with a U.S. Marine ordered to leave Guadalcanal, but disappointed that he has not shot a Japanese soldier. The commanding officer gives him advice which Eleanor Roosevelt relates as a joke to the audience. (World War II period).
'In the Solomons ' United States ships underway in the Pacific and soldiers on the deck of a ship. A man looks through binoculars towards the sea. Admiral William Halsey and others look at a map and discuss the strategy. An animated map of Solomon Islands shows Japanese establishments. Guns on board the American ships fire at Japan's positions at night. Soldiers loaded in landing crafts move away from the ship. Soldiers wade through water and land at the Rendova Island. They march inland on the island. Soldiers engage in a fierce battle with Japanese as they fire guns. Planes drop bombs over the island. Survivors of a ship sunk brought on board another ship. Survivors sleep and relax.
Major events of the year 1951. War with Japan comes to an end with the signing of the Peace Treaty in San Francisco, California. Delegates of various nations gather to sign the treaty. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko walks out to express his opposition. Japanese delegate and Allied delegate Dean Acheson sign the treaty. Japanese delegates shake hands with Dean Acheson, an Allied delegate and the United States Secretary of State.
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