Fascinating

Was that naval base clip from Pearl Harbor?

no, everything you're seeing is from p-51 mustangs dogfighting zero's and then doing strafing runs against various targets from Tokyo to the coast on their way back from protecting the b-29's bombing runs.

Clips that are effectively time machines almost always get an upvote from me.

So many dead fish.

I have to go play IL-2 1946 now.

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Sunday, September 26th, 2010 10:15pm PDT - promote requested by jimnms.

Not really Japanese gun film, but US film made over Japan. This would be the summer of 1945, after Okinawa was finished, and the USAAF (US Army Air Force) would be sending fighter missions over Japan looking for targets of opportunity - whatever looked like it could help resist the coming invasion of Japan. SO trains, boats, ships, planes, just about any vehicle and factories. At this point, the atomic bomb was unknown, and they were preparing an invasion that would cause an estimated 1 million US casualties and 10 million Japanese. SO anything they could destroy now was something they wouldn't have to destroy later. And the Japanese were preparing to use everything they had, including women and children, to repel the attack.

I shamelessly gleaned the propaganda movie described in the youtube link from this video here. Although I'm sure it puts a patriotic twist on the events in question (as all propaganda films do), it's a great watch and gives a good history on the events from this feature.