Mix of period footage circa 1910, retrospective interviews in 1975, and some still images. European immigration in bad travel conditions to America. View from rail on deck of a ship in heavy seas. An elderly European immigrant recalls his experiences of the journey on ship to America. Ship in Atlantic Ocean. Picture of European immigrants on ship deck. Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Early 1900s period footage of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island and disembarking from ship, then walking with luggage for processing at Ellis Island. Some immigrants peer across New York Harbor at the skyline of New York city. Scene change to 1975 and views of interiors of a no longer used building in Ellis Island. Names of persons carved on walls. A man shares his experience as an immigrant passing through Ellis Island, and then as an immigration inspector reviewing new immigrants as they arrived.
United States President Lyndon Johnson arrives in Guam for two-day top level strategy conferences. Crowds gathered at the Guam airport. Sign reads “Hafa Adi L.B.J Welcome to Guam Where America’s Day Begins”. President Johnson and wife Mrs. Lady Bird Johnson disembarks from the Air Force One (SAM 26000) aircraft. Dignitaries greet him at the Guam airport (355 Chalan Pasaheru B224-A, Tamuning, 96913, Guam). He arrives for the conferences with South Vietnam leaders. Crowd gathers at the airport to greet the President. Various South Vietnamese dignitaries welcome the President including Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyen Cao Ky.
Exteriors of the Guam Government Palace in Guam. Governor's office entrance. Close up of the sign board. Interior of the Governor's Office. Captain Alexander of United States Navy (USN) and other USN officers at desk. Governor of Guam talks to Aides. Commander Jupp, Chief Clerk, Chief of Police and aides. Meeting of the Guam Legislature. Various shots of meeting of Chamorro. Councilmen. Close up of AF Badello, FB Gerrero and speaker Lembers seated.
Chamorros in Guam during the Battle of Guam. U.S. soldiers pass along streets of Guam. M-tanks are transported, ships in the background. Interior of office: George Ray Tweed, Chief radiomen on Guam who, with the help of locals hid out for the duration of the Japanese occupation, talks about violence that Japanese inflicted on Chamorro natives. He shows hideouts, from where soldiers fought. He talks to an officer. Chamorro natives pray for dead. Dead bodies with cut heads. Dead soldiers lying on ground showing brutality. Chamorro natives get food, medical care and infant care. (World War II period).
Chamorros in Guam during the Battle of Guam. A man plays whistle. Chamorro natives gather. Plans for Guam people shown. American soldiers load shells into artillery. Bulldozer levels land to construct airfield. An aircraft lands. During the war: naval battle, guns fired, ships underway at sea. A letter from Secretary of Navy James Forrestal depicts the U.S. progress in Guam.
Animated map indicating routes from Northern Marianas Islands of Saipan, Tinian, and Guam to Japan, and return. Map of the islands and focus on Guam. A village in Guam. Shows natives going down street on a bullock cart. Supply dump showing boxes, tires, and Pilot oxygen containers. Trucks hauling supplies. B-29 on hardstand, with tail code "Z", from the 73rd Bomb Wing, 500th Bomb Group, stationed at Saipan. Several B-29s along the flightline, displaying tail code "O", from the 314th Bomb Wing, 29th Bomb Group, home-based on Guam . Scenes of tent area. GIs standing at table, eating. Two homemade washing machines. Two GIs scrubbing fatigues with brushes. Three GIs taking showers.