Smoke columns rise from an island during invasion of Saipan, Mariana Islands. Planes in flight. Auxiliary ships in the transport area. LSD (Dock Landing Ship) stern view and broadside. Japanese prisoners. (World War II period).
Boxes of Japanese supplies during invasion of Saipan, Mariana Islands. Destroyed railroad tracks and equipment. U.S. Marine in the far background. Marine tractor driver. Men push flat car on railroad tracks. Locomotive in the background. Marine smokes pipe. Marine works at a tractor. Marines work over locomotive.
City view of Tokyo. Large crowd gathers as 18th modern Olympic Games opening ceremony goes on in Tokyo, Japan. United States players hold their national flag. Russian players come after the American players. Japanese players hold their flag. Emperor Hirohito declares the games open. Olympic flag hoisted. Yoshinori Sakai lights the Olympic torch. Pigeons fly in sky.
Film titled 'Cherry Blossom Time' by Ford Company. Parade in the street. Spectators gathered along sides. Participants in traditional Japanese costumes carrying banners. People carrying large sedan chair. Dancers and dragon on the street. April 1920. This clip is from Ueda city, Nagano prefecture, as "Ueda city Games" is what's written on the banner.
Documentary dealing with hosiery titled 'Nines and a Half '. People gathered at a ground and watching Japanese women dancing. Winding of threads on various bobbins and into a single thread. 1920.
Major General Nathan F. Twining, Commanding General, 13th Air Force. arrives to congratulate fighter Pilots of the U.S. Army Air Forces, at Henderson Field, on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, during World War 2. (The 339th had successfully accomplished a highest priority mission, shooting down Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's airplane on April 18, 1943.) Major General Twining, wearing a pith helmet, steps out of his jeep and walks towards a group of 339th Squadron Pilots. He examines the nose wheel of a P-38, as a group of pilots stand around him. General Twining converses for a while with Major John W. Mitchell, Commander, 339th Fighter Squadron, who led the mission to down Admiral Yamamoto's airplane. Later, members of the 339th Squadron are photographed in conversations with one another.
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