A film blending dramatized and actual footage about the Pearl Harbor Raid by Japanese bombers during World War II, on December 7, 1941. A formation of Japanese bombers in flight over Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. U.S. soldiers fire machine guns at Japanese aircraft. Guns of navy ships. A Japanese aircraft falls down in flames after being attacked. Bombing of U.S. ships in Pearl Harbor. Gun crews fire guns from the ships. Wounded sailors are evacuated by medics.
From a 1943 film blending dramatized scenes and actual archival footage about the conditions soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii in December 1941 by Japanese bombers during World War II. U.S. troops remove the dead bodies of soldiers who died in action. The U.S. flag on the grave of a U.S. soldier. Pictures and parents of U.S. service men of the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Army and Medical Corps who died during Pearl Harbor raid. The family of a U.S. Medical Corps Lieutenant who died during Pearl Harbor raid. Wife of the same lieutenant holds her baby born after the attack. Prayer services for the dead U.S. servicemen. Families of the dead servicemen lay wreaths and flowers around U.S. flags. U.S. Navy officers and sailors at shore attend the memorial services. Ceremony shows line of U.S. Navy sailors laying garlands around each U.S. flag bearing the names of U.S. servicemen who died during Pearl Harbor attack. An Army Chaplain and Navy officers attend the prayer services. Palm trees on the beach.
Twenty one New B-17B bombers of the U.S. Army Air Corps 19th Bombardment Group are parked at Hickam Field in Honolulu, after flying 2400 miles from San Francisco, on May 31, 1941. Several views of the B-17s on the field. One simply displays the number 96 on its tail. A momentary glimpse of a Lockheed P-38 aircraft taxiing away, past parked B-17s. (World War II period).
Oahu Railway and Land Company locomotive No. 76 departs Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard with commuter train for Honolulu. Passenger cars with freight doors had been previously converted to "can cars" by the OR&L and returned to passenger service after the Dec. 7th 1941 attack. Style of blackout headlight indicates 1942. Cars and trucks on road stop near a railway crossing. Men pass the crossing. Palm leaves near a sea shore. (World War II period).
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, early in World War 2. U.S. Navy pilots looking serious, being briefed, and then turning to look at Board carrying duty assignment information. Views of palm trees and ocean surf. Navy Chaplain Lieutenant's shoulder board. A navy diver, in rubber diving suit, with grease on his face, reports findings to officers on deck of a vessel damaged by the Japanese attack of December 7th, 1941. He laughs at a remark from one of the officers.
Pearl Harbor in Hawaii during and immediately following bombing by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941. Harbor installations and warships burn from attack by Japanese aircraft. Many US Navy ships seen burning in harbor. View from a high point overlooking the harbor. Camera pans and black smoke is seen rising from many burning ships. Destroyed planes in hangar. Finger points upward and then USS Arizona (BB-39) is struck and explodes. Black smoke rises from USS Arizona as it burns in the harbor. Burning U.S. Navy warships partially submerged. Capsized USS Oklahoma (BB-37). Fire boats spray water on the burning ships.