Wakayama Landing, Japan, 09/25/1945

About this film

View of craft exiting USS LST-788. Landing operation heads to shore. Shots from inside landing craft. Beach scene as vehicles arrive. Soldiers exit USS LCS(L)(3)-102. Long shot of vehicles on beach. Bulldozer. Soldiers with packs, marching. Slate: "WAGEN Roll 3, Date 9/28/45, LAND" Military truck drives on dusty road. Japanese civilians walk down road. Japanese man has armband. He is looking at cargo in truck. Slate: "WAGEN Roll 4, Date 9/25/45, KOYTO BOUND" Jeep with hood open. Soldier pours in water. Long line of jeeps. Interior view of soldiers on train. Exterior shot of train car. Slate: "WAGEN Roll 5, Date 9/25/45, KOYTO BOUND" View of destroyed landscape Railyard and wrecked buildings. Street sign: "Wakayama." Interior shot of warehouse type building full of soldiers & chow line. Exterior shot of building and military trucks arriving. Aerial shot of traffic. Illegible slate. Street scene and traffic. Exterior shot of building and sign "Sixth Army Head Quarters." Street scene with vehicular and pedestrian traffic. Slate: "WAGEN Roll 8" Exterior shot of building and sign "China Wares & Souvenirs." Soldiers enter building and browse. Exterior shot of military truck being unloade…

Directors & creators

United States. Army

Subjects

WWII, World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan, United States. Army, Japan. -- History -- Allied Occupation, 1945-1952, World War II: Postwar Issues, Motor Vehicles, Amphibious -- United States, United States. Navy, Landing Craft -- United States, USS LST-788, United States. -- Army -- Army, 5th, USS LCS(L)(3)-102, United States. -- Army -- Infantry Division, 33rd

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