On to Tokyo

On to Tokyo Naval Workers Digest 02:42:01 Man taking wing gun camera out of plane, removes film cartridge. Shots taken by wing-gun camera as plane strafes truck - good shot as train locomotive explodes. Enemy planes blows up, another is disabled. 02:42:49 German center of air operations. German film of USAAF B-17s under attack. US plane on ground. American prisoners of war questioned. American war graves. 02:44:00 Map detailing Philippines - Aircraft carrier in stormy seas. Aircraft lashed to deck. US Naval attack on Leyte, tracers; amphibians & landing craft on beaches. Ormac beachhead secured & LST ships unloaded. US troops move inwards. Tanks fire mortars - flame throwers. Casualties carried by medics on stretchers. Battlefield blood transfusions. 02:47:02 US destroyer hit by Japanese planes. Survivors picked up from rubber raft at sea (GOOD). 02:47:42 Landing craft to beaches at Mindoro. US Naval ships fire anti-aircraft guns (ack-ack), flak. Troops onto beaches; ships & supplies unloaded. Saipan - B-29 planes on fire after Japanese attack. Bomber being bombed - crewman writes Only the Beginning on bomb. USAAF briefing. B-29 Bombers take off for Tokyo. Daytime bombing Tokyo, explosions, planes in flight. Army Air Force; USAAF; WWII Fighting; WW2;