Doolittle Raid -- Japanese newsreel, training at Manila and on Borneo

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03.29.2017

Video by Petty Officer 1st Class Clifford Davis 

Naval History and Heritage Command

National Archives Footage - Japanese newsreel, training at Manila and on Borneo
Local ID Number: 428-NPC-9210

Creator: Department of Defense. Department of the Navy (Navy Photographic Center)
Produced: April 1942

Shot List: MS Japanese Army General making announcement (front shot). MS Several captured U.S. pilots (blind folded with black cloth masks) disembarking from vehicle. (NOTE: Probably attached to the USS Hornet (CV-12), of Doolittle Raid on Tokyo (the first in Japan), April 18, 1942.) MS Japanese high-school boys being trained as tankmen: Boy wearing helmet; boys get into tanks (good). MLS Many Japanese tanks training on large field; Mt. Fujiyama in background (good). MLS Street scene of Manila after capture of city by Japan (short). MS School exhibition; various pictures made by school children make up show; many children looking at them (poor). MS Map of Borneo. MV Japanese training Borneo natives for pre-war activity: Natives cutting trees in jungle; they cultivate land; learning Japanese semaphore in open air. MS Borneo natives aboard Japanese ship being stationed on crow's nest for lookout. MV Japanese seaplane activity on Borneo; crew mounting engine; pilots on beach being briefed; seaplane taking off. MS Japanese pilot in cockpit of same plane.

• Date Taken: 03.29.2017
• Date Posted: 03.30.2017 08:24
• Category: B-Roll
• Video ID: 516426
• VIRIN: 170329-N-NO147-956
• Filename: DOD_104222439
• Length: 00:11:27
• Location: (UNDISCLOSED LOCATION)