Japanese soldiers in China during World War II. Artillery is fired and smoke rises. Wrecked United States Army Air Force and Chinese B-24 Liberator bomber aircraft on Kei Ling airstrip. Wrecked parts of Allied aircraft on a field. A sign reads '12th Service Group Dispensary'. Machine guns and artillery are fired. Smoke rises. Japanese soldiers lying in prone position as they fire at a village.
Victory over Japan Day (V-J Day) celebrations at Lafayette Park in Washington DC, United States during World War II. A civilian walks down a sidewalk reading a newspaper. Two army officers walk down a sidewalk in the park. Newspaper headlines 'Japanese Offer to surrender-Mikado can remain'. People read the headlines in the park. Civilians talk and read in the park. Two Japanese Americans read a newspaper. A civilian reads a newspaper. People stand and talk.
A dramatization depicts a Japanese man's visit to a citizens' public hall in Yanaizu, Japan. Dramatization : A man gets out of a car. Two men talk about making of a new film and about location of shooting. Horses graze and a train pulls past farmers working on a field. The train stops at Aizu Yanaizu station. The unit arrives and stands with their luggage. The team leader is greeted by the manager of the citizens' public hall . People walk on a path with trees on either side and over a bridge. A house amidst trees on a hill top. The two men walk and stand near a wooden railing. The houses in the town. People walk on a street. Japanese architecture including temples. A picture of teachers of a primary school and the founder of the school.
Japanese high school boys visit the Imperial Naval academy in Japan. Entrance to Japanese naval academy. Boys seated at a long table being lectured by a Naval officer.
Ceremony aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63) as the Japanese surrender is signed in Tokyo Bay. Sailors stand in attention. U.S. Fleet Admiral William Frederick Halsey, Jr. greets U.S. Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz. Sailors sit and watch the ceremony. General of the U.S. Army Douglas MacArthur leads his party aboard and to their place. Uniform representatives of the Allied powers stand in attention. Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Mamoru Shigemitsu leads his party aboard and to their place. Douglas MacArthur opens the ceremony with a speech. Documents of surrender on table. General MacArthur,Admiral Nimitz and Admiral Halsey leave. (World War II period).
Amphibious attack by the U.S. forces on an island in the Pacific during World War II. A U.S. battleship underway in the Pacific Ocean. Naval guns firing at Japanese positions. Landing crafts loaded with soldiers approach the island. Aircraft in flight drop bombs. An armored vehicle drives into a beach. U.S. troops wade inland during combat. Marines ducking behind bushes before an explosion takes place on the beach. Dead Japanese soldiers’ bodies lying on the ground. A firing rocket launcher on USMC M-2-4 1-ton cargo truck. Vehicles driven inland. A soldier fires a gun. Soldiers filing out of grass. They carry ammunition. Flames come out of a Flamethrower. The soldiers sit in a trench. Injured soldiers are treated in the jungle. Medics carry a patient on a stretcher. A jeep is driven away. Tanks move in a line. Soldiers on a battlefield.
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