MS Mountain region behind Beppu. A narrow dirt road, a heavy truck on road being loaded with yellow pine log. MS Interior of Japan Iron and Steel Mill, hot steel pouring out of ladle. Yawata. MS Interior of Japan and Iron Steel Mill, smelting oven, Japanese workers throwing burnable material into fire pit of smelting oven. MS Smelting oven and slag drain. Same as above. MS Stock pile of steel ingots on both sides of the narrow gauge RR tracks. Looking SE. MS Small shuttle engine moving supplies to ovens then a pan shot to R showing stock piles of ingots. Looking NE. MLS General view of Japan Iron and Steel Mill as seen from vicinity of the scrap pile area. MLS Another view showing the scrap steel and iron pile and the overhead crane. MLS Pan up to a row of blast furnace smokestacks with no smoke coming out of them. Looking W. MLS Furnace area. MLS Furnace area and RR tracks. Note small steam engine moving supplies of iron ore to ovens. LS High angle overlooking the plant as seem from atop the dolomite building. MS Three Japanese laborers bringing in armfuls of shovels and stacking them next to a drilling machine that drills a hole through the handle so that a pin may be inserted in order to hold the blade and handle together. MS The drill operator picking up a shovel and placing it in the drilling machine so that the hole can be made. MS A Japanese laborer making frying pans on a hydraulic press. Three scenes. MS A Japanese laborer heating a roughly formed plow shear in a small coal heating furnace. This is done prior to putting the plow shear into hydraulic press where it is given its final shape. MS The Japanese bringing the heated plow shear over to the hydraulic press where another Japanese puts it into the press. MS Of two women putting an edge onto the plow shears by using a grinding machine. Taken at the heat tempering room of the Japan Iron and Steel Works. They are making farm and home implements. Made armor plate during the war. A series of shots showing method used in the making of coal brochettes for heating. In this series of cuts we see an old Japanese housewife mixing the coal dust with water, then forms little patties with her hand and then places them on a piece of tin which covers a static supply of water. Here the patties remain for several days to dry. Taken near the workers community of the Higashi Misome Coal Mine in Ube, Japan. MS Group of Japanese workers carrying brass casings and placing them in stacks. MC Same as above, different angle. Pan L to R showing Japanese workers cutting Army tanks into scrap metal. Man in foreground using cutting torch, while in background stacks of what is left of army tanks.
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This item documents the time period: 10/1945 - 02/21/1946
Contributor: Camera operator, Bolm, Mimura, McGovern
National Archives Identifier: 64465
Local Identifier: 342-USAF-11021
