Life in Honolulu, Hawaii prior to Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II. American people enjoy swimming, surfboard surfing, and horse riding at Waikiki Beach in Honolulu. The statue of King Kamehameha in Kapaau, Hawaii. U.S. Capitol building in Washington DC. A dramatization shows a man enacting as Uncle Sam and other man as an American citizen. They talk to each other. The American man leaves and Uncle Sam sleeps. Views of Polynesians in Hawaii, Japanese Emperor Hirohito, Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and German Chancellor Adolf Hitler.
First trans world flight in 1924 to the Kuril Islands in the Pacific Ocean. A Douglas World Cruiser in flight over the Kuril Islands and on coastal waters. American crewmen of Douglas World Cruiser. Crewmen work on DWC. A map depicts the trans world flight. DWC lands on water. American crewmen with Japanese women. The map demonstrates that Japan is readily accessible from the outside through various transcontinental air flights. A Japanese fishing boat underway.
U.S. Naval operations in the Pacific Theater during World War II. A damaged Japanese fuel dump on a Pacific island. A damaged Japanese pillbox. A U.S. officer on the deck of a ship. A radar grid turns. U.S. officers come aboard. The group talks on the deck.
Capture of Myitkyina airfield by Allied Forces during Burma Campaign of World War II. Animated map highlights Myitkyina airfield in North Burma which is captured by Allied ground forces on 17th of May, 1944. USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) Waco CG-4 gliders parked at Shingbwiyang airfield. USAAF officer inspects a map. Airbase engineering equipment are loaded aboard gliders. Tow rope of glider is hooked up with USAAF C-47 Skytrain transport plane. Airborne engineers board the glider. C-47 tows CG-4. CG-4 makes a landing at Myitkyina airfield under Japanese machine gun fire. Another glider makes a crash landing. Airborne engineers exit the gliders on field. A pilot and an engineer of crashed glider are given plasma and first aid. Wounded men are evacuated. Bulldozers level the airfield. Chinese soldiers search for hidden Japanese snipers in area.
Operations of United States troops in Korea during the Korean War. U.S. soldiers advance towards a battlefield. Smoke from firing and bombardment on the battlefield. Wrecked equipment and rubble on the ground. Prisoners of war are questioned by a soldier. Tanks advance on the battlefield and soldiers fire rifles. Mountains in the foreground. American forces enter the capital city of Seoul and set up a 155mm howitzer next to Government-General of ChÅsen Building (also called the Japanese General Government Building or the Seoul Building, built by the Japanese in 1926). View of the sandbagged howitzer firing at North Korean targets. An aerial view of the battlefield. U.S. Army Lieutenant General General B. Matthew Ridgway, newly appointed Commanding General of the U.S. Eighth Army, arrives on a U.S. C-54 transport plane, to assume command in Seoul. As he steps from the plane, he is greeted by Major General William M. Hogen and another officer.
(Before the attack on Pearl Harbor in World War 2). United States Army soldiers arriving in Hawaii. A truck convoy on a road. The soldiers aboard the trucks. Supplies and equipment loaded on the trucks. The soldiers arrive at U.S. Army camps. Soldiers running in a line in the camp. Soldiers include some who appear to be of Japanese-American descent or Hawaiian descent. They carry their luggage on shoulders and stand outside the tents. Closeup view of U.S. Army Lieutenant General Walter Short on a street in front of a staff car, confers with a civilian. (This is before General Short's reduction in rank to Major General which followed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. General Short had been responsible for the defense of U.S. military institutions in Hawaii at the time of the attack.)
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