Postwar development of Okinawa Island in the Pacific Ocean. Views of recently constructed schools, power stations, and aerial view of the Fukuji Dam and water reservoir. Children play in school. Two young Japanese boys read. Power generators and electric power lines, poles, and cables. Water reservoir site. Transport boxes are offloaded from ship on to a dock at harbor. Passengers board an All Nippon Airways (ANA) Boeing aircraft at Naha Airport. A Japan Airlines aircraft taking off from the airport and seen in the sky overhead. People walking in front of the Naha Airport terminal. Buses, trucks, and car traffic on roads and streets of Okinawa city. Men at work at a construction site.
Spectators grouped around two Japanese planes on display. Boeing Stratocruiser on display, written on its side 'Pan American World Airways'. Two girls inquire direction from an AP. Glider in free flight. North American F-86D Sabre equipped with wing tanks on display. Republic F-84 Thunderjet in background. Glider in free flight.
Aliens in the United States brought to Federal courthouse and court in session of arraignment. During time of evaluation hearings, deportations, and forced internments of foreign aliens and suspected conspirators (such as German, Italian, Japanese) in the United States during World War 2 (due to the Enemy Alien Control Program authorized by President Roosevelt after the bombing of Pearl Harbor). Handcuffed alien is taken out of a car and people gathered besides road watch. Woman stands at table in court while arraignment. Photographers stand on stairs of Federal court and click pictures. More handcuffed aliens brought to the courthouse. Women alien brought to Federal courthouse, she goes into the court. Alien brought to the court goes in and hides his face by a hat. Alien hides face with his hands and goes in the court. Federal court during arraignment session. People speak. Woman stands. Man speaks. Men at table discuss.
50th Indian tank brigade and Yorkshire and Lancashire regiment soldiers carry ammunition and supplies across Kalapanzin River in Buthidaung, Burma. Tanks on raft. British-Indian soldiers stand on raft past tank. Soldiers carry bundle of barbed wire and place it on raft. Japanese held position on the other side of river. British soldiers of the 27th Field Regiment Royal Artillery and 63rd Indian field Company, ferry pontoon raft with guns and ammunition. Water flows in river. Yorkshire and Lancashire regiment soldiers carry ammunition and supply in field and place it on ground. They ferry equipment and supply on sampans, down river. Soldiers push artillery and load United States jeep on sampans and ferry it. (World War II period).
March 6, 1945 A bulldozer drives toward an overturned tank truck as a jeep speeds past in front of it. The dozer slowly moves past the wrecked tank truck. A tracked vehicle (weasel) drives down a hill, pulling a trailer. Closeup of Japanese mortar shell with fins, laying in some straw. Closeup from rear, of U.S. marine firing a weapon (possibly a "grease gun") from a protected position. Another marine holding an M1 Garand rifle.
Activities of Japanese people in Japan. People go in Public Health Clinic. Women sit in line at clinic. Nurse places thermometer in a woman's mouth. A lady doctor examines a boy with stethoscope. Boys receive chest X-Rays. Little children weighed in baskets by nurses. Dentist examines little girl's teeth. Teacher lectures at a Nursing class and nurses under training take notes. Nurses check patients' blood pressure. Nurse brings tray of food to woman on bed. Farms on hill side. Men and women plow farms. Water besides the farm. United States freighter at port. Fertilizer sacks are lowered down to port. Farmers spread fertilizers in a farm. They use their feet to mix fertilizer with soil. Horse drawn thrasher in the farm. Men and women sow rice plants in water filled paddies. Laborers dig new hilly land for re plantation. Farmers trained in farming school for practical work. They plow and spray chemical.
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