British and United States carrier-based planes bomb Okinawa. United States Navy in action. Battleships at sea. Aircraft taking off from flight deck of the battleship. Men watch the planes. Aircraft drop bombs on the Japanese ships. Smoke arises due to the bombarding. Soldiers fire from battleship at the enemy planes. Enemy planes set in flames. Map points the target areas and the United States base for attack against Japan. Smoke arises due to bombarding. Bombing the air fields of Okinawa. High altitude view of the air fields. (World War II period).
A U.S. Navy F6F Hellcat airplane is seen parked on a ramp, with a bomb slung under its fuselage. The narrator identifies it as a "fire bomb," containing gel gasoline. Scene shifts to an F6F dropping one from several thousand feet, in a demonstration. The incendiary bomb creates a swath of fire along the ground, in the direction of flight. A flight of two F6Fs repeat the demonstration, dropping their bombs simultaneously, from a formation. Another drops a bomb on a pier at a waterfront. View to the rear from an airplane that just dropped a bomb in a wooded area. Views of actual U.S. 1st Marine Division operations on Peleliu, Palau Islands, during World War 2, showing F4U Corsair aircraft, flying low and slow, with gear down, dropping napalm incendiary bombs on Japanese troops dug in on a ridge. View of smoke rising from bomb strikes at targets near a river.
Japanese Imperial interests prior to World War II. People gather to celebrate the hollyhock festival of 'Aoi Matsuri' in Kyoto, Japan. People walking with huge flower baskets and a cart decorated with flowers. People walk wearing colorful dresses in the procession. Other people watch the event. Houses along side of street. Trees in the background.
Japanese Imperial interests prior to World War II. People gather at the Chrysanthemum Show in Tokyo. They watch the flower plants. Children walk.
Street scenes in Tokyo. Women walk on the street. Pinwheels, paper flowers, and mini umbrellas adorn a flowerpot on the street. Japanese women wearing kimono turns to look at the camera behind them. People step inside a building. Some people seated on benches along the sides of a street. Houses and trees. People walk.
Japanese Imperial interests prior to World War II. People gather in the Ueno Park in Tokyo for Sakura cherry blossom viewing (Hanami). The five-storied pagoda of the Kan’ei-ji Buddhist temple inside Ueno Park. Intensely pink cherry blossom trees in full bloom partially obscure the view of the pagoda. Crowds gathered watch the cherry blossoms. Crowds of people walk in the park. Women in kimono strolling the park. People climb stone stairs at the park.
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