School, office and bank in Hawaii in approximately 1941-1942 showing people of Japanese descent around the time that relocation centers for Japanese civilians were opened in the USA. A woman sits with a child. A woman shows cloth to other women. Man points to a diagram of building to other men. A Teacher in a school writes on a blackboard. Men in an office discuss. Man at bank counter gives a packet. A man and woman work in office. Exterior view of the Iolani Palace in Honolulu.
88-mm antiaircraft guns (flake guns) aboard USS Indiana (BB-58) fired at Japanese Kamikaze (suicide dive bomber) off the Japanese coast. Kamikaze flies through heavy flake fire. One of the Kamikaze hit and crashes in water. Quad 40 mounts with expended shell casing in open mounts aboard the battleship. Row of single 20mm guns on the deck. Gun crew members stand aboard. Kamikaze flies through heavy flake fire. It dives into water after being hit. (World War II period).
An U.S. Marine handles a captured Japanese gun sighting or artillery sighting device device during invasion of Saipan, Mariana Islands. Marine with captured Japanese light machine gun on the ground.
Camera pans over a closeup of British Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival who was captured in the fall of Singapore. American Lieutenant-general Jonathan Wainwright, smoking the stub of a cigar, as he sits with U.S.Major General Edward P. King, Jr. (Both were imprisoned in the Japanese invasion of the Philippines.) A naval officer POW posing in front of a tree. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, in pith helmet, smoking a cigarette. POWs eating and conversing with Japanese interpreters, (One POW appears to be U.S. Brigadier General George F. Moore, who was imprisoned along with Wainright and King, in the Philippines.) View of POWs in a library, where one is reading from a script, while being recorded. Other POWs looking at documents.
Gun camera footage from U.S. fighter plane over Okinawa in World War 2. View from aircraft diving down over the beach and then inland over the island. Plane flies toward the water and pulls up to avoid mountains. Next it is seen attacking the Japanese Flying Boat Mavis, in the water. After pulling up, It makes stafing attacks on wooden sampan boats. The next strikes are against vehicles on inland roads. Last clip shows strafing of a Japanese single engine aircraft crash landing on the beach.
U.S. carrier-based aircraft pursue and fire upon a Japanese aircraft. They also attack a Japanese warship, which begins to burn and belch clouds of black smoke.
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