DESTRUCTION AT NUREMBURG Part 1

Description

Summary: AVs, destroyed buildings and factories. BOMB- CARRYING BALLOONS. GSAP footage, Japanese balloons are shot down en route to Pacific coast of the US. MSs, balloon which reached the shores of the US is examined by men as they unfold the rice paper parachute portion of the balloon. CUs showing details of the wet cell battery and ballast weights. ATOMIC BOMB. Full screen views, first explosion of the Atomic bomb at Alamogordo, New Mexico. (10 July 45). BALIKPAPAN AFTERMATH. Borneo, Malay Archupelago: 07/09/1945. AV, coastline of Balikpapan. Pan, oil refinery on island. VS, damaged airfield; Japanese guns on airfield are examined by soldiers, and first Allied plane (A Catalina) lands as is greeted by Australians. CHINA TIDE TURNS. VS, buildings are burned, fields are destroyed in the face of the advancing Japanese Army. (Sept 44). Pan, airbases in China. (Liuchow and Kweilin). CHINA TIDE TURNS (CONT'D). Summary: Evacuation of airfields by US; burning of buildings lowering of US flag as buildings burn in bg. AV, burning buildings once occupied by US troops. Excellent scenes, Chinese refugees. CU, face of child. Burning buildings. Chinese soldiers retreating from Liuchow. CU bare feet of retreating refugees.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities