CriticalPast is an archive of historic footage. The vintage footage in this video has been uploaded for research purposes, and is presented in unedited form. Some viewers may find some scenes or audio in this archival material to be unsettling or distressing. CriticalPast makes this media available for researchers and documentarians, and does not endorse or condone any behavior or message, implied or explicit, that is seen or heard in this video. Link to order this clip: http://www.criticalpast.com/video/656... Historic Stock Footage Archival and Vintage Video Clips in HD. Japanese Naval exercises involving battle ships and simulated attacks by aircraft Flight of 9 Japanese planes, in triangle formation, fly over a Japanese battleship. Japanese officers seen on the bridge including Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, seen using binoculars. Japanese flags on the mast of the ship. Ship's Officers assembled on the bridge,review charts. Sailor sends blinker light signal. Another sends semaphore flag signals. A bugler blows call to battle stations. Battleship's heavy guns swing to port firing position.Simulated air attack staged by Japanese aircraft. A Japanese bi-plane in flight, followed by a formation of open cockpit Mitsubishi A5M aircraft ("Claude"). Ship fires antiaircraft guns during training drill. A pair of A5M Claude aircraft fly by as ship guns fire. Crewmen don gas masks as part of the drill. Line of battleships and destroyers moves at high speed throwing heavy wake. Location: Japan. Date: 1941. Visit us at www.CriticalPast.com: 57,000+ broadcast-quality historic clips for immediate download. Fully digitized and searchable, the CriticalPast collection is one of the largest archival footage collections in the world. All clips are licensed royalty-free, worldwide, in perpetuity. CriticalPast offers immediate downloads of full-resolution HD and SD masters and full-resolution time-coded screeners, 24 hours a day, to serve the needs of broadcast news, TV, film, and publishing professionals worldwide. Still photo images extracted from the vintage footage are also available for immediate download. CriticalPast is your source for imagery of worldwide events, people, and B-roll spanning the 20th century.