Brief views of Allied bombing raids in Japan during World War II. A group of United States Army Air Force aircraft flying over Japan. An army cemetery in front of a building in the Pacific. United States Army Air Force aerial machine gun strafe Japanese positions on the Aleutian Islands. A chaplain praying over a coffin with the American flag draped over it. Aerial view of bombs falling and exploding into Japanese positions in China. Consolidated B-24 Liberator dropping bombs over Wake Island. View of Wake Island. Graves of U.S. troops on Wake Island, Burma, and other recaptured Pacific islands. Allied Airborne Infantry on the jungles of Burma (Myanmar). Gunshots are heard on the background. Two United States Consolidated B-24 Liberator aircraft flying to the Philippines. Allied bombardment of Hollandia (present day Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia). Grave of an unidentified soldier. United States troops land on a beach. A Howitzer is towed across a river. Soldiers rolling a barrel of oil. Snowplow truck clearing snow in front of a bomber. United States troops unload supplies at a snow-covered airbase.
United States Army troops landing on beaches in the Pacific during World War II. An LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized) carrying troops approach an island. A tracked vehicle carrying U.S. soldiers and supplies wade towards the beach of Saipan. Injured casualties lie on stretchers on the floor. An injured soldier is being carried to an aircraft for evacuation to Kwajalein, Marshall Islands. Recovered soldiers board an aircraft bound for Saipan. A Curtiss C-46 Commando transport plane takes off from Kwajalein airfield. Saipan airfield and surrounding areas show extensive damage after Japanese surrender. Engineers repair a hangar and airstrip on Saipan. Abandoned and damaged Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters in Saipan. A pile of destroyed Japanese aircraft in airfield. Damaged engine of a Mitsubishi Zero. Machines and conveyers mixing and transporting cement for airfield repair. A bulldozer clearing debris. A soldier hammering. Marston Mats laid down on newly repaired Saipan airfield. A Boeing B-29 Superfortress aircraft lands in Saipan.
A sign in Japanese outside Korakuen Stadium (1-3-61 Koraku, Tokyo, Japan) in Tokyo, Japan during WWII. 30,000 young people gather at the Gungo Houkou Patriotic Tournament in Tokyo. Crowds fill the stadium. The flags of the Japanese Empire are on display. Camera pans to reveal view of the National Bayukendo Training Tokyo Tournament. Groups of college students lunge with their wooden swords for Kendo, also known as Shinai, at the Yoyogi parade ground. War veterans guide the students in kendo.
Japanese women work at a textile factory in Japan. A monorail crane outside Japanese factory. A steam locomotive train crosses a bridge.
Burial at sea ceremony on board the U.S. Navy ship USS Saratoga (CV-3) a day after an attack by Japanese Kamikazes during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. Full crew of the USS Saratoga attend the ceremony on deck. The crew pay their respects. Bodies of the casualties, sewn into sailcloth, seen on deck. Some of the USS Saratoga crew are seen wearing life jackets. The bodies are thrown overboard. United States Marines firing their salute after all the bodies are buried at sea. Thousands of crewmen saluting as they conclude the ceremony. The crew disperse before forming a line on deck. Dr. Edgar Maurice Cortright, United States Navy Lieutenant, narrates his experience on board the USS Saratoga at the time of its bombing by Japanese planes.
The First World War. Austrian cavalry troops, horse carriages and infantry troops in World War 1. Charles I of Austria leaning over from a horse and talking to royal family members in a carriage. Very brief shot of Japanese funeral forJapanese Navy Admiral Heihachiro Togo, Tokyo, Japan. German Army troops in formation marching to battle in 1914. Newspaper headlines showing outbreak of World War 1. British Army soldiers in trenches fix bayonets on rifles and advance on a battlefield, taking refuge in a bomb crater. Gas shells and or smoke explode nearby as they advance on the battlefield. Explosions occur and smoke rises in the background. Medics with stretchers stop to assist some injured soldiers.
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