Events relating to the bombing of Buka Airdrome on Bougainville Island on September 14th 1943. U.S. B-24 Liberator bombers and fighters in flight at a high altitude over the airdrome. B-24s dropping bombs. Impacts visible. Japanese fighter aircraft receiving fire from American aircraft. (World War II period).
American and Australian soldiers during the Buna-Gona Campaign in Papua New Guinea. A map of the conflict area. Soldiers amidst firing in the fields and forests. A tank moves through the forest area. Planes in the sky. Soldiers under heavy camouflage among the bushes. A military storage facility. Soldiers and natives pack and prepare to deliver biscuits to troops. Papuan natives put a box into a sack. Soldiers at tables make requisitions for a supply of blankets. Blankets are transferred from a truck to a warehouse. A soldier calculates the supply of European and native ration supplies to the troops during the Buna Campaign in October - November 1942. A plane in the sky, and then lands. A U.S. Airman explains the process of, and dangers involved in the dropping of supplies from airplanes. Soldiers fight the enemy in the forest. Wounded Japanese soldiers are carried on stretchers. A dead soldier on the ground. Australian and American soldiers celebrate their victory. The soldiers sit and rest, smiling and smoking cigarettes. Soldiers pay their respects at graves of comrades in a makeshift cemetery. (World War II period).
1943: Animated map depicts Japanese advancement and footholds of Allied troops in Papua New Guinea. Australian 6th Division troops advance through thick jungles towards Salamaua. Soldiers route for enemies in the jungle and fire guns and artillery. Machine gun nests in the jungle. An injured soldier waits to be evacuated. The natives carry soldiers on stretchers. An Australian soldier help a wounded comrade across a river. The Australian troops are relieved by U.S. troops. USAAF B-26 Marauder at a supply depot in Kela village. Native carriers wait for supplies to be dropped from airplanes. 14 August 1943: 5th AAF bombs and strafes targets in the Wewak and Salamaua areas. USAAF B-24 Liberator drops bombs over target areas. Smoke and explosions due to the bombardment. (World War II period).
President Dwight D Eisenhower awards Medals of Honor for heroism in the Korean War at a ceremony in front of the White House. Citation is read by a Naval Officer as Sgt David B Bleak of the Army medical Service, 223rd Infantry Regiment, United States Army stands by the President. President Eisenhower awards him the Medal of Honor and congratulates him. Also seen in the clip (already having received the Medal of Honor earlier in the ceremony) are 1st Lieutenant James Lamar Stone, 2nd Lieutenant Raymond G. Murphy (barely visible), and Sergeant Hiroshi H. Miyamura (the second Japanese American to have received the Medal of Honor).
Wounded U.S. soldiers evacuated to Tokyo. Special ramp mounted on jeep is moved up to plane for unloading of wounded. Banner on ramp reads '374th Troop Carrier Wing. Hospital Evacuation.' A bus backs up near the ramp. Wounded man on stretcher is taken aboard an ambulance bus. Japanese carry wounded man on stretcher from plane to hospital bus. A soldier with his arm in cast lying on a stretcher in center aisle. Hospital bus en route. Patients on stretchers taken up ramp to receiving ward of the Tokyo General Hospital.
War Crimes Trials in Tokyo, Japan, for Japanese defendants after World War 2. Other officials and judges in the courtroom. Mrs. Yasuko Konoye, a new witness is sworn in. British prosecutor Comyns Carr asks Mrs. Konoye to identify herself and reads her statement. As Mr. Carr stops reading his statement, Mr. Brooks and Mr. Logan make objections to the document being presented. General Telford Taylor reads his summation.
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