Department stores at Ginza in Tokyo, Japan. The Ginza. A sign ' TOKYOIPX'. A former Japanese department store. Street sign erected by the U.S. army, "Ginza Ave". American soldiers and officers enter and come out at entrance of 'Main Store'.
Aerial coverage of Japanese mainland immediately following the end of World War II. views cover broad landscape features, including harbors, villages, towns, farms, and industrial sites.
Activities of the Seabees at Attu in the Aleutian Islands during World War II. The destination of Construction Battalions (Seabees) is Attu. An animated map shows Attu. Seabees make amphibious landings on Attu, while part is still occupied by Japanese troops. They begin immediate construction activity. A derrick unloads coal. Seabee stevedores unload cargo. A rough Seabee camp of tents and campfires, with an American flag flying from a pole. Seabees at breakfast mess. Carpenters, with rifles on their backs, erect a temporary barracks building. Prefabricated parts for buildings being unloaded on shore. Seabees erecting a prefabricated field hospital (in 5 hours). Refueling bulldozers from 55 gallon drums. View from moving boat, of the completed base at Attu.
Reinforcements and supplies arriving on Guadalcanal during World War 2. Various views of Soldiers and supplies arriving from transport ships. These operations are occuring in 1943, after Guadalcanal has been secured and now being prepared as a base for further allied advances against Japanese-held islands on the road to Japan itself. In one scene Soldiers are seen arrivng on a Higgins Boat from the transport ship, USS George Clymer (APA-27). Most of the film shows supplies being amassed on the beachhead. Local natives are employed helping unload and store the large quantities of supplies.
U.S. Army Generals arrive in Tokyo, Japan. U.S. Army General Back with Col Hammond. Woman with them is Mrs Back. Mrs. Black holds a lighted cigarette. General Back speaks to two women. He says goodbye and leaves. The General smokes a cigarette and gets into a car. Japanese outside the car speak to the General. 71st Signal Service Battalion assembles on the parade ground. General addresses the troops. Troops parade past review stand. Women dependents and several men in a stand. Officers to be decorated march forward. Col Hammond. General Back decorate soldiers.
View of Our Lady of Atonement Cathedral with people all about it, in Baguio City, Philippines, several months before the end of World War 2. A young boy with a baby. A Japanese man surrendering, carries a white sign reading: "I cease resistance." He is escorted by two U.S. soldiers. U.S. Army Brigadier General Charles F. Craig, 37th Division Deputy Commander, looks over maps with staff officers, in front of Our Lady of Atonement Cathedral.
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