Japanese civilian prisoners are loaded aboard dukw on Okinawa Island. U.S. Army troops lined up. Children and women aboard dukw. Japanese civilians carry loads of wood into a compound in which civilian internees are kept. Group of civilians seated around fire, bundled up for warmth. They drink in turn from canteen cup. They wear life preservers. Nisei Japanese questions civilians. Military Police watch as a Japanese solder is questioned (World War II period).
U.S. 1st Marine Regiment moves ahead with captured Japanese aerial bombs to destroy Japanese caves near Deragawa. Truck loaded with Marines and ammunition move along a road and passes a gasoline truck. Marine climb into parked truck which starts moving. It comes to halt and men get out. Marines toss Japanese bomb around and turn them end over end. Marines take the bombs to an area where Japanese caves are located. Bomb explosion in cave. (World War II period).
Japanese Locomotive demolished and sunken ships in Okinawa. Japanese locomotive demolished at Naha Terminal. Demolished railroad cars. Railroad car wheel lined up, wreckage and rubble lay around. Two partly sunk Japanese vessels. Shoreline showing LCT (Landing Craft, Tank) with a few men on it docked in the foreground. Sunken Japanese ship in estuary. Barges docked. Crane on truck on dock. Crane unloads barrels from barge.
Opening scene shows deck of the Swedish ocean liner M.S. Gripsholm, as it is departing Jersey City, New Jersey, with Japanese Nationals and Issei (First generation Japanese) aboard, who are being repatriated from the United States to Japan, during World War 2. The Swedish First Mate is seen on deck speaking with two Red Cross women dressed in white. The Swedish flag is seen in the background. A very small Japanese boy squats on the deck and watches several Lehigh Valley Railroad barges passing nearby, including one containing a house. Glimpse of the Gripsholm's Captain and a sailor on deck. Japanese women walk about on the deck and join other passengers and some crew who are looking across the Hudson River at the Manhattan, New York City skyline.
A Japanese motion picture theater in Kyoto, Japan. A group of Japanese children play baseball outdoors. Other children stand as they watch the game. A man and two boys looking at Japanese movie posters. Japanese man accompanies the two boys to the cinema. The man buys tickets on ticket booth.
Japanese Emperor Hirohito inspects his troops in Japan. The Emperor and other Japanese officers on horseback. The Emperor reviews his troops on a large open field. Japanese soldiers on horseback pass in review. Japanese officers arrive on a stand and the Emperor salutes from the stand.
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