Know Your Enemy: Japan, War Department Orientation Film title card (OF-10)
Title card of a 1945 U.S. Army film about Japan: 'WAR DEPARTMENT ORIENTATION FILM', an 'OFFICIAL O.F.-10' bar flanking the Army seal, and the credit 'Information and Education Division, Army Service Forces'. The official seal and the word 'Official' lend the War Department's authority to the film that follows (transfer).
- Date
- 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. War Department, Information and Education Division, Army Service Forces (Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Film stills
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Internet Archive item 'KnowYourEnemyJapan' (digitised copy of National Archives film 111.OF.10, Record Group 111, U.S. Army Signal Corps), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- U.S. federal work; Internet Archive Public Domain Mark 1.0
U.S. War Department, Army Service Forces, Information and Education Division; Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps (film credited to Frank Capra and Joris Ivens, uncredited on screen). Digitised by the U.S. National Archives, via the Internet Archive.
Text on the object
WAR DEPARTMENT ORIENTATION FILM OFFICIAL O.F.-10 INFORMATION AND EDUCATION DIVISION ARMY SERVICE FORCES
Text read from the extracted frame; the circular seal legend is not legible at this resolution and is not transcribed.
