Daitoa News (Nippon Eigasha newsreel), title card "American War Losses"

Black-and-white tally card from a Japanese newsreel, in English: a heading 'American War Losses' over a list of battleships (9, 271,700 tons), 'others 11', airplanes 464, hangars 18 and casualties 5.500, each with a small silhouette icon. The card gives one side's claimed damage as a single column of round totals, with no source, no date and no figure for Japanese losses (card-stacking: a selected tally presented as the whole account).

Date: 1942
Period: Second World War
Made by: Nippon Eigasha (Japanese newsreel company), Daitoa News; film seized and held by the US National Archives
Region: East Asia
Country: Empire of Japan
Medium: Film stills
Issuer type: Media
Regime: Showa Japan
Leader: Hideki Tojo
Audience: Foreign public
Purpose: Persuade or win support
Themes: War and the military, Media and information
Event: World War II
Techniques: Card stacking
Regime: Empire of Japan, 1937 to 1945
Leader: Hideki Tōjō
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Internet Archive (Prelinger Archives; item 202195_Daitoa_News), from US National Archives and Records Administration NAID 35995, retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: Public domain (NARA catalog use restriction 'Unrestricted'; Japanese term ended before the URAA date)
Nippon Eigasha, Daitoa News, c. 1942; National Archives and Records Administration NAID 35995, local ID 111-M529-43J (record group 111); scan by Prelinger Archives via the Internet Archive. NARA catalog: use restriction 'Unrestricted'.

Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

AMERICAN WAR LOSSES
BATTLESHIPS 9 (271,700 tons)   OTHERS 11
AIRPLANES . . . . . . . . . . 464
HANGARS . . . . . . . . . . 18
CASUALITIES . . . . . . . 5.500

Spelling 'CASUALITIES' and the decimal point in '5.500' are as on the card. The card is already in English, so there is no translation.