Allied prisoners of war after being released, arriving in Nagasaki, Japan after World War II. United States sailors wait at a railroad station at Nagasaki as a train pulls in at the platform. Wounded allied soldiers on stretchers being unloaded from the railroad train. A United States Navy medical officer shakes hands with patients in the stretcher as they come off the train. Some released Allied prisoners pass through a coffee line at the station. A prisoner fills his coffee mug and moves away. Prisoners receive coffee and donuts. Litter patients being carried out from the train and taken away. The released prisoners sit and chat. A man with a dog. The released prisoners outside the American Red Cross office at the station. The soldiers drink beer and eat sandwiches.
Damage in Nagasaki, Japan after the atomic bomb attack in August 1945. Damaged Mitsubishi steel and arms plants in Nagasaki. Damaged steel frames of the factory whereas concrete walls stay unharmed. Smoke stacks also stand unharmed at the factory site. Pushed in steel frames due to directional force of the blast. Rumbled over head cranes. Damaged artillery and aircraft guns. Homes at the factory area. Damaged equipment and machinery. (World War II period).
An aerial coverage of Nagasaki, Japan to show the atomic bomb damage which occurred during World War II. Aerial views of a harbor area, barracks, a river and buildings. Vicinity of Nagasaki radio towers and the ridge of mountains that separates the valley.
A survey of physical damage from atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, filmed after World War 2. Flash burns on a telephone pole. A damaged machine shop of a commercial school. Burnt out machine shop and the commercial school which was gutted by fire. Stripped roof of the building. Displacement and distortion of a wall as a result of blast. The bowed wall of the machine shop as a result of the force exerted which was transmitted through the frame of the structure. The destruction of the municipal tenement district located in a valley. A view of hills in the valley. Damaged buildings of the Shirayama School and the Nagasaki Hospital in the background. A damaged machine shop and several overturned lathes near it. A wrecked milling machine and a concrete block. Lieutenant Commander A. N. Vardac of the United States Naval Reserve stands near the concrete block. Distortion of steel frame roof of the machine shop. Burnt out casting with the machine shop in the foreground and the commercial school in the background. Cracks in concrete. A steel casement window frame blown out.
A survey of physical damage of bomb blasts in Nagasaki, Japan after World War II. A crumpled wall of the Nagasaki Prison. Remaining portion of the wall still standing. Collapsed cell block walls of the prison. Two round poured concrete wall casings which withstood the blast. The cell block in the foreground is completely demolished. A smoke stack of a boiler house and a concrete water tank.
A survey of physical damage of bomb blasts in Nagasaki, Japan after World War II. A smoke stack of a boiler house which withstood the blast. Wrecked frame structure of a factory in the foreground. An open hearth furnace portion of the Mitsubishi Small Arms Plant as seen from a moving flat car traveling on the Nagasaki main line.