In this 1942 episode of the cartoon, Superman sabotages the Yokohama Navy and rescues Lois Lane from the Japanese army. The episode includes some offensive depictions of the Japanese, so a short excerpt has been posted here, but the full episode can be seen at the Internet Archive.
For photographs of U.S. mobilization in Asia in 1942, see Alan Taylor's World War II retrospective.
To watch the film in its entirety, visit the Internet Archive.
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Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg is the former executive producer and general manager of Atlantic Studios at The Atlantic.