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Military Newsreels 1945 Issue 17
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keywords: post-wwii, canada, clothing drive, united states, wicked weather, snow storm, japanese occupation, destroying weapons of war, prefab houses, housing shortage, car design, experimental vehicle, three-wheeled transportation, crimes against humanity, war crimes, general tomoyuki yamashita
Synopsis: Canada Collects Clothes For World's Needy, East Coast Digs Out After Heavy Snows, US Army Flame-Thrower Tanks Destroy Japanese War Planes Post-WWII, Canada Mass Produces Aluminum Houses To Ease World Housing Shortage, Three-Wheeled Auto Is Demonstrated To Public, Convicted War Criminal Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita Is Sentenced To Hang...(read more)
- Date: 1945
- Duration: 00:08:58
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States, Canada, Japan, Philippines
Canada Collects Clothes For World's Needy
Shows UNRRA workers sort and bundle clothing in Canada for shipment to war ravaged Europe and Asia.
East Coast Digs Out After Heavy Snows
A record snowfall blankets the northeast United States after a four day blizzard. The city of Buffalo, New York had 68 inches of snow halting all rail traffic and stopped all supplies for the war effort. Snowy scenes at Buffalo, New York and Niagara Falls.
US Army Flame-Thrower Tanks Destroy Japanese War Planes Post-WWII
Japanese military planes at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, Nagasaki Japan are destroyed by U.S. flame-throwing tanks.
Canada Mass Produces Aluminum Houses To Ease World Housing Shortage
Aluminum stock for the war effort is now rolled, shaped, and made into prefabricated houses in Canada. Houses on an assembly line. Exterior of a completed aluminum home.
Three-Wheeled Auto Is Demonstrated To Public
The latest in automobile design is demonstrated in California, a light 3-wheel model automobile.
Convicted War Criminal Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita Is Sentenced To Hang
Japanese General Yamashita know as the Tiger of Malaya takes the stand at a war crime trial in Manila. He is questioned and replies through an interpreter. The prosecuting attorney sums up his case and General Reynolds pronounces the death sentence (Dec. 7 1945); death by hanging. General Yamashita was hanged in Manila on February 23, 1946.
