Opening scene shows Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-21 aircraft, Army Type 97 heavy bomber (Allied code name: Sally) flying in formation. Closeup from inside an aircraft, of gunner manning machine gun in the nose. View from aircraft of Bombs falling on industrial target. View from cockpit of explosions from bomb strikes. Scene shifts to a group of Japanese Imperial Navy Mitsubishi G3M aircraft (Type 96, code named: Nell) on an airfield, with engines running. A Japanese admiral, in dress whites, speaks to pilots, who are dressed in white flight suits. The pilots then march in loose formation past an honor guard of Naval officers and sailors assembled at the entrance of a hangar. The pilots and their well-wishers exchange salutes. Some G3M airplanes take off. A formation of them silhouetted in flight overhead. View of them in formation over a cloud cover. View from a Japanese aircraft dropping bombs on targets in a river gorge.
Film opens with slate reading: "Evacuation to Hospitals." Next, on January 30, 1945, the day of the "Cabanatuan Raid" (Mission to rescue prisoners of war from the Japanese prison camp at Cabanatuan) rescuers are seen carrying a former POW from a building, on a litter. Local Filipinos and others are standing on the porch of the prison building. An ambulatory former prisoner comes down the steps unaided. Several rescued prisoners are seated on chairs, conversing. Closeups of some of them. Two weakened and bandaged former prisoners help each other up some steps. Slate states: "Man with Cane afflicted with Beri-Beri." A severely disabled former prisoner, with a cane, makes his way unaided across the grass. Rescuers and Filipinos are in the background, along with some carts used to evacuate disabled former prisoners back behind American lines.
The American civilians and prisoners of war in Philippines during World War II. The prisoners carry food packets in their hands. They discuss amongst themselves. Vehicles on a road. Trees in the area. A group of men sits on chairs and discusses. Wheel carts on the street. Buildings along the side of a street. Soldiers talk with civilians. They carry a wounded with them. An ambulance parked in the background. A man smokes.
The American prisoners of war liberated in the Philippines during World War II. The prisoners march. Trees and mountains in the background. A few prisoners get inside a military truck. Prisoners on trucks and jeeps move past the prisoners marching. Filipino civilians watch the prisoners on a military vehicle. A man walks with a flag.
Bodies of dead American prisoners in Palawan, Philippines, victims of the Palawan Massacre of American POW by Japanese forces in December 1944 (World War II). A sign board reads: 'This area off limits to all personnel'. 'Remains of American prisoners of war'. Men exhume corpses in the area. They dig the graves. Exterior of a building. Recovered dead bodies of soldiers lying on the ground. Men sit nearby. A man searches the dead bodies.
People gather to watch a gymnastic exhibition in Sweden. A man stands with a flag. The gymnasts perform in front of the crowd. People applaud. King Gustavus of Sweden witnesses the exhibition.
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