Destroyer and battleship fire antiaircraft guns underway at sea. Japanese plane explodes and tailspins into water midst tracers. Man floats through air in parachute and lands in water. Antiaircraft guns fire. Japanese plane crashes in water. (World War II period).
USS Tirante SS-420 submarine in Japan. An enlisted boy looks through binoculars aboard the submarine. Commander George L Street III looks through binoculars. Japanese junk boat (Wasen) comes alongside the USS Tirante. Japanese fishermen brought aboard the USS Tirante. The junk boat is set on fire. Junk boat burns at night. Periscope view of large rock extending above water.
Film titled 'Heat' determines the atomic bomb damage to the city of Hiroshima. Two members of the Japanese survey team checks out monument. Sealing on granite monument. Rubble covered area in city. Japanese shrine. Sealing on granite monument. Small stone pebbles. Burned and shadow effect on pebbles. Heat blistering effect on concrete and granite. Debris covered area in city. Views of rubble. Demolished buildings and demolished area. Blistered fragments of tile. Damaged and destroyed buildings. Damage on granite and tiles. Animated chart showing distance of roofing tiles and granite from epicenter. (World War II period).
Effects of atomic bombing on human bodies, Hiroshima. Burns of the back, arms and head of a male patient. Front view of patient. Animated chart shows distance of two Japanese soldiers from epicenter. Japanese soldiers stand with burns on legs and body. Burns on leg of a soldier also showing protection afforded by sandal. A man's back and head with slight burns. Burn on man's hand. A piece of dress then showing how the pattern of the dress was burned onto the back of a man. Shows protection afforded by a wrist watch. Showing burns on the face, neck and arms of a man. Burns on man's hand and how the movement of his fingers has been restricted. Burns on man's hand and arm. Burn on a woman's neck, face and ear. Burns on a man's head and almost burnt ears. Burns to a man's face and eyes. A doctor re-bandages an injured leg. Burns on patient's leg. Unhealed ulcers on woman's face. Burns on man's arms and cuts on his face. A large cut running from eye to the ear on a woman's face. Doctor and nurse work on a woman's face. (World War II period).
U.S. 3rd Battalion 22nd Marines on Okinawa island during World War 2. Two Marines carry elderly woman out of hut and lay her down. They gently lift the aged woman onto door which is used as a stretcher. Woman is carried away. Marines set down stretcher holding two women, one suffering from malnutrition. View of legs of other young woman, whose right leg is bent and cut off at ankle by the Japanese when she refused to fall back with the retreating Japanese soldiers. Cameraman slate at end of clip states "Okinawa: Civilians taken from hiding places - When the Japs told them the oncoming Marines would kill them."
Flag raising ceremony at Southern Tip of Okinawa in Mobuni Town. United States Marine Corps General Roy Stanley Geiger and Marine Corps Major General Pedro del Valle talk. (Del Valle was the first Hispanic to reach the rank of Lieutenant General). Major General Del Valle talks with other Marines. Other Marines in the background. Sign shows where the last organized stand was made by the Japanese Army on Okinawa. Two Marines in the background. General Stilwell talks to an officer. General Stilwell climbs up hill. Mountains in the background. Raising flag at spot where Japanese made last stand on Okinawa. Marine General Stillwell and Marines saluting as flag is raised on top of flag pole. Marines salute. Sign in the foreground. Flag on the flag pole. General Stilwell addresses a group of Marines at flag raising ceremony. General Stilwell and Marine Generals talk. General Geiger talks with General Del Valle and another General at ceremony. General Stilwell and Marine General talk. Group assembled around flag pole.
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