Japanese bomber aircraft attack Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii on December 7th, 1941. Japanese warships and destroyers head for Pearl Harbor. Commanding officers of Japanese fleet look through binoculars. Two Japanese aircraft carriers (Kaga and Zuikaku, as seen from the Agaki) underway in the Pacific Ocean. Japanese pilots being briefed. Aircraft engines warm up on the flight deck of a carrier. Japanese aircraft take off from the flight deck of the carrier. Aerial views of Japanese planes dropping bombs over Hickam Field, Pearl Harbor and other targets on Oahu. View of two Japanese dignitaries leaving the White House, Washington DC, with U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Photographers take pictures of them.
Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, U.S. Navy, Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet and Pacific Fleet, (center), confers with his Chief of Staff, Captain William W. Smith, (right), and his Operations Officer and Assistant Chief of Staff, Captain Walter S. DeLany (left), at Pearl Harbor, in 1941. Closeup view of Admiral Kimmel. View of two U.S. Navy submarines and several ships docked at Pearl Harbor, and crew men working on some of the ships. USS Indianapolis (CA-35) is seen at dock. Dock crane removing a 5 inch gun from USS San Francisco (CA-38) in the beginning stages of a refit. She would still be getting refitted when the attack on Dec. 7th occurred. Covered Lighter barge YF-240 is also seen. This is the barge that was next to USS Nevada during the attack. This was filmed before the December attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan. (World War II period).
Views of Pearl Harbor and environs,immediately after the Japanese air raid on December 7, 1941, that forced the U.S. into World War 2 in the Pacific. Fire smoke and Wreckage, including a Navy Catalina flying boat, on Ford Island. Mechanics salvaging parts from the remaining front half (tail missing) of a U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 bomber on the tarmac at Hickam Field. Wings from a B-17 with fuselage missing, in a hangar. Pieces of Air Forces airplanes strewn in front of damaged hangar. Pieces of U.S. Navy aircraft litter the ramp in front of a Ford Island hangar. Workers in a dinghy moving in front of bomb-damaged U.S. battleships. Workers standing on the capsized hull of the USS Arizona. A diver in suit and helmet going below decks of a sunken ship. Debris floating in the water. Pumps discharging water from a damaged battleship.
After a speech by an admiral, Japanese newspapermen are given the news of the declaration of war against the United States on 8 December 1941. A Japanese fleet underway in the Pacific. Sailors on the deck of a carrier. A captain looks through binoculars. Sailors prepare the dive bombers on the ship deck. Japanese pilots during a final briefing. A Japanese sailor erases a board, while another stands before a writing on the ship. Bombers on the carrier deck. Japanese Sailors watch as pilots board their planes and take off. The bombers in flight with bombs attached onto the belly. Japanese bombers drop bombs on U.S. ships in Pearl Harbor. U.S. Pearl Harbor Base under attack.
A film about uses and importance of weapons since old times in the United States. Past events depict smoke rising from Pearl Harbor in Hawaii after Japanese attack of December 7, 1941 during World War II. American soldiers fire machine guns during the war, from a jungle area in the Pacific. The soldiers run through muddy waters. Sky filled with parachutes, as seen from the ground, as U.S. Army paratroopers descend and land for an airborne invasion. American Army Infantrymen on a snow-covered landscape in Europe fire M-1 rifles at enemy German positions during World War 2.
United States Navy ship salvage activities at Pearl Harbor after the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941. Harbor tug USS Geronimo (YTM-119) and another tug moving the USS Califonia (BB-44) to Drydock number 2, a month after she was successfully refloated. Repair crews watch from her decks as tugs move the battleship. (World War II period).