Clip

The Battle of China
Clip: 487659_1_9
Year Shot: 1937 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 270
Original Film: WPA 1667
HD: N/A
Location: China
Timecode: 00:25:42 - 00:29:05

CU map Japanese expansion toward Nanking. MS sinking U.S. gunboat, U.S.S. Panay w/clear markings. (first American warship sunk in Sino-Japanese war) MS wounded soldiers, getting off ship. (Japanese say it was a mistake) TLS/MS Chinese soldiers, army defending Nanking. MS artillery firing. LS explosions. MS Japanese soldiers moving through smoke towards other barrier, knock down door. MS moving into city. MS urban warfare, artillery firing, Japanese soldiers moving through parts of the city. MS Japanese soldiers celebrating after victory at Nanking. MS rolling, marching through the city. MS Japanese soldiers w/captured Chinese soldiers, Prisoners of war. (POWs) MS Japanese soldiers manhandling civilians, committing atrocities, pushing them into a hole, burying dead. MS Japanese soldiers execute two men. (The rape of Nanking) MS dead in the streets. (men, women & children)