Reconnaissance photographs removed from an aircraft on board United States Navy carrier underway in the China Sea during World War II. Officers analyze the photographs. Ships in the rough sea as waves crash over the flight deck. Aircrafts take off from carrier in typhoons. Oil refineries bombed in Saigon, Vietnam (Indochina) as smoke rises from them. Japanese warships and ammunition ship burn after blow up. Plane makes a crash landing on board an aircraft carrier.
A map shows the location of Chamber of Commerce and industry building and Commerce and industrial exhibits building and their distance from the epicenter of atom bomb explosion in Hiroshima, Japan. Torri Gateway stands undamaged amidst bomb wreckage. Chamber of Commerce destroyed and industry building with destroyed parapets. Commerce and industry exhibits building with a destroyed dome shaped roof. A group of Japanese researchers of Nippon Iga Sha arrive in a truck and inspect the damaged buildings. (World War II period).
A group of Japanese researchers of Nippon Iga Sha inspect the damaged buildings and make note of vital statistics after atomic bomb explosion in Hiroshima, Japan, soon after the end of World War 2. A map shows the location of Ai-Oi Bridge and Motoyasu Bridge. Damaged Ai-Oi Bridge with sidewalks blown apart. View of cap stones of Motoyasu Bridge jumped out of place in opposite direction as a result of explosion with blast wave centered at bridge. Wide sweeping camera pan view of destroyed, rubble covered area with low mountains behind.
Allied invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. U.S. General Joseph McNarney, Deputy Chief of Staff at a desk as he outlines the importance of June 6, 1944 the day Allied forces attacked the Germans in Normandy. He speaks about the decision to knock down the Nazis first and then the Japanese during the World War. He says that the invasion of Normandy was planned in November 1943. He also states how General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, planned and executed the invasion. He also speaks about how the U.S. Army Air Forces and the Royal Air Forces aircraft bombarded the coasts of Normandy prior to the D Day invasion. Past events show American soldiers getting onto landing crafts in England as they leave for the invasion. The soldiers aboard the ships in the English Channel. The soldiers read the Bible and comics, sleep and cook aboard the ships. On June 5th , 1944 the ships head towards Normandy for the invasion. In England gliders carrying paratroopers take off from an airfield to bombard the German positions in Normandy. British soldiers receive ration and work on motorbikes. TNT (trinitrotoluene) charges being prepared by soldiers tasked with demolition duties. British soldiers check their guns and other weapons prior to the invasion. Jeep and artillery being loaded onto aircraft.
Unloading of equipment at Manila Harbor in the Philippines towards the end of World War II. Huge boxes lined up. Japanese characters on the boxes. A shell being lowered by a crane with a sign on it that reads ' USN '. A United States soldier on the deck of a ship as he looks on. A soldier aboard a ship in the foreground. A number of ships underway in the background. Soldiers tie a rope to wrecked equipment aboard a ship. The wrecked equipment is hoisted in a sling and is being lowered on a deck. A shell being lowered into water.
Storms hit the United States and Japan. Hurricane Helene hits Carolina and Virginia Cape as strong winds blow at 140 miles per hour. An uprooted tree. High waves occur at sea. Damaged buildings as a result of the hurricane. Damaged roof of a house. Aftermaths of Typhoon Ida in Japan. Water clogged streets. Damaged houses as a result of the typhoon. Japanese soldiers carry on rescue work.
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