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WWII - Pacific, 1940s: Captured Footage: Japanese Defense in North Sea

Reel Number: 221250-04

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1945,1940s

Country: Japan,USA

Location: aleutian islands,Pacific

TC Begins: 10:23:46

TC Ends: 10:33:06

Duration: 00:09:20

WWII - Pacific, 1940s: Captured Footage: Japanese Defense in North Sea Japanese navy ships in heavy seas; view of destroyer w/ waves coming on deck. Men look out w/ binoculars & instruments getting bearing. Deck rails coated w/ ice. Crew smashing ice loose. Shoveling off ship. Bridge w/ windshield wipers. Semaphores communicating between ships. 10:26:09 Map showing route from Japan to Aleutians, on to San Francisco. Convoy of naval ships underway, man at helm in MCU. Troops on board ship drilling. Carrying protective gas masks; down ships ladders, in boats w/ rifles, landing & going ashore thru wet straw carrying battle flags & machine guns. Up barren hillside. 10:29:05 Searching captured prisoners, walking along ridge above building another party. W/ Japanese flag at attention. 4 motor biwing amphibious plane in harbor, ships beyond. POV from boat around. 10:31:24 Title 10:31:34 Ships in harbor firing large guns at B-29 (?) overhead. bomb exploding in water. Ships underway and firing guns. Two engine plane overhead. Large explosion near shore. 10:32:42 Ships gun firing, plane hit and falls & explodes and burns. WW2; Pacific; Aleutians Captured; WW2 POWs - American; Japanese Northern Sea Fleet; Winter Weather;

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