Asahi World News Battle of Tokuan

Battle of Tokuan Japanese titles over abstract animated opening. Title: No. 250 Main titles. 03:00:52 Japanese soldiers w/ rifles thru grass, village in backgound. Lifting large artillery & carrying ammunition; firing. View down barrel, shell inserted, firing. Tank advancing & firing, troops into village. Machine guns firing in CU alongside barrel. 03:02:09 Solider on ground having leg wound treated, wounded carried on stretcher. Battle footage & firing w/ smoke rising from wooded hillside. 03:02:40 Title. Aerial over river valley. Smoke from bombs rising. 03:03:07 Title. Japanese navy ship up river, smoke & explosions on terraced hillside. Military General speaking on deck (SOF) as marines (?) listen. Marines w/ fixed bayonets crouched behind machine gunner in bow of landing craft at Hankow. Running w/ field packs up shore over dike, across field. Past huts, across pole bridge & through rubble. Victory “banzai” from bridge. 03:05:48 Title Aerial over rocky hillside. View of firing small artillery from ridge; machine guns firing in CUs. Hillside & smoke rising. LS Japanese flag waving. Explosions near ridge w/ soldiers advancing nearby silhouetted. 03:08:25 Titles over abstract patterns as a reversal from opening. Sino-Japanese War; Pre-WWII; Japanese Newsreel; Propaganda;