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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220303-03
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1945
Country: Japan
Location: Kofu-Kasugai-Mura
TC Begins: 04:06:49
TC Ends: 04:14:34
Duration: 00:07:45
Post-WWII - 1945, Japan Occupation and Army Control, 26Oct45 Soldiers of the 221st Division visit the famous Daibutsu (Great Buddha), talk to Japanese priest. 04:07:58 Swimming pool - troops slide down chute as Japanese girls look on. 04:08:12 Warehouse stacked with Japanese guns - setting up charges. 04:08:54 Hase Kannon Temple w/ visiting troops. Local Japanese praying at shrine. American troops in trucks. 04:10:06 Colonel William Mahoney, regiment commander, other officers & men watch tractor crushing machine guns, rifles. Piles of scrap metal. Incendiaries used to destroy guns. Incendiaries & charges used to destroy Japanese tanks & military equipment. 04:13:16 Sequence at Kofu-Kasugai-Mura - Japanese farmer who hoarded silver shows US troops where silver ingots are stored in barn. Japanese family talks to American officer. Post-WW2;