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Imperial Japanese Newsreel: Japan Conquers Singapore

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United States Naval Photographic Center film #9208. National Archives description "1) HA LS Singapore under Japanese attack; black smoke rising into sky. Poor 2) MS Japanese artillery being fired from jungle area. Good 3) MS Map of Singapore; Japanese markers and lines indicating Japanese advance route. 4) MS Japanese army truck lands on beach and advances into jungle. 5) SV Japanese ground troops advance into jungle (some look jovial). 6) MLS Number of Japanese soldiers prepare a large blimp to use as an artillery spotter in the jungle. 7) LA MCU Three star General Yamashita, Commandant of Malay area, standing on hill. 8) HA MCU General Yamashita in battle conference with several officers in open air. Poor 9) MLS Many Japanese soldiers pulling small artillery going down road; jungle in background. Good 10) LS Aerial view of Singapore being attacked; Tengare airfield. Poor 11) MLS Japanese soldiers disarming captured Australian and British soldiers on the same airfield. Good 12) MCU Same. 13) MLS PAN Many captured British soldiers sitting in open air. 14) MCU Wrecked fuselage of British plane. 15) MS Three-star General Utaguchi sitting on hill, looking through binoculars. 16) MCU J…

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United States. Navy

Subjects

WWII, World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Malay Peninsula, Yamashita, Tomobumi, 1885-1946, Percival, Arthur Ernest, 1887-1966, Singapore -- History -- Siege, 1942, Newsreel, World War II, Capitulations, Military, World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial Operations, Japanese, Japan. -- Rikugun -- History -- World War, 1939-1945, Great Britain. -- Army

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