Strafing and bombing of the Japanese islands during World War II. U.S. Navy TBM Avengers from USS Randolph (CV-15) in flight overhead. Clouds in the sky. Several aircraft flying in formation. Coastline of Shikoku, Japan. Smoke rises from a burning ship. Smoke and flames rise up. Bomb hits on Japanese battleship near the shore.
Allied campaigns against Imperial Japan during World War II. Animated map depicts Allied victories in various Pacific islands like Guadalcanal, Palau, and the Mariana Islands. A map of the Philippines. United States troops invade the Philippines. Naval guns fire at a shore and flak bursts are seen. Dramatic shot of a Japanese Zero aircraft approaching United States Navy ships that are firing guns. The Japanese aircraft is hit at close range to the ship, a wing ruptures, it is consumed in fire and crashes with explosion in the sea beside the ship. Many landing craft with U.S. Army forces landing at beach on Leyte. Soldiers land and advance inland. United States Army General Douglas MacArthur and President Sergio Osmeña of the Philippines wade ashore. Filipino women and children on the island are assisted by U.S. forces and provided with food and protection. Following are meetings of wartime Allied leaders, shown briefly in the ending of the film: Prime Minister Winston Churchill meeting President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the battleship, USS Augusta, at Newfoundland, during the Atlantic Conference, 1941. Roosevelt stands at the railing, assisted by his son, Army Captain Elliot Roosevelt. Roosevelt and Churchill meeting with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, at the Cairo conference, in 1943. Joseph Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill pose outside the Livadia Palace (Baturyna St, 44-а, Livadiya, 98655) during the Yalta conference in 1945. Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, American Ambassador Harriman, British Foreign Minister, Anthony Eden, and Churchill's daughter, Sarah, in uniform, are among those standing behind the seated Big Three. Delegates from 51 Nations gathered for the first meeting of the UN General Assembly, in Westminster Central Hall, London, England, in 1946.
A film about uses and importance of weapons since old times in the United States. Rifles being manufactured at the Springfield Armory in Springfield, Massachusetts. Men work on machines at the armory. A man operates a barrel straightener machine. Parts of rifles being assembled. A man inspects the receiver of a rifle. A rifle being test fired at the armory. German aircraft in flight as they drop bombs over cities in Europe during World War II. Civilians run for cover during an air raid by the Germans. United States Congress ion session. The Japanese attack the Pearl Harbor in Hawaii in December, 1941. Explosions occur during the Japanese air attack.
Japanese mine sweeping operations in the North Pacific Ocean during World War II. The mine sweeping operations being carried out in the North Pacific Ocean near the Aleutian Islands. Buoys being dropped to mark a mined area. Dories being lowered. A Japanese look out sights through an instrument.
Recovery of a Japanese midget submarine off Pearl Harbor in Oahu, Hawaii. Men walk alongside a submarine. Cables attached to the submarine. A crane floats on water with men aboard it. Men on a wooden float alongside the submarine. The Japanese submarine alongside USS Current. Men on the deck of the ship. Other men on the float alongside the submarine as preparations are made to pick it up from water. Slings being attached to a floating crane to pick up the submarine. USS Current, floating crane and the midget submarine. The crane picks up the submarine from water. The submarine hangs over water from the slings of the crane. The midget submarine is lifted by the floating crane. Men on starboard bow of USS Current look down over the submarine. The midget submarine hangs five feet above the water. Cables wrapped around the submarine as it hangs.
A film about Allied campaign against the Japanese in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. An officer at a map in the United States. He speaks about the battle against the Japanese in Guadalcanal. He asks for the support from civilians in terms of war production.
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