Streets with cars and pedestrians and a military truck in Honolulu, Hawaii, early in World War 2. A model 'T' Ford car drives on the road. Sign over a shop idenfifies "Poi Factory." Pedestrians walk on sidewalks. A military ambulance on the road. Houses and buildings on roadside.
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).
Lifestyle and activities of civilians in Hawaii, United States during World War 2. A sign board reads "Cove City". Another sign board reads "Victory Garden, Kaimuki, February 4, 1942". View of a swimming pool. A fence in the foreground. Ships seen in the harbor in the background. A government building. A flag flutters in wind in front of the building. Piles of dirt stacked up in the foreground. A lawn, trees, ground and a large piece of property. A sign in front of a store reads "Photo Studio" with Japanese writing underneath. A building resembling a church. In Honolulu, civilians sit on benches in a park. An old man walks past in the foreground.
Rear view of a car in President Franklin Roosevelt's motorcade driving along the flight line at Hickam Field, Honolulu, Hawaii, during World War 2. Several C-54 aircraft are seen (Navy designation R5D). President's The President sits with Admiral Chester Nimitz, in the back seat of an open 1942 Packard convertible motorcar. (It displays private use "A" gas ration stamp, the most restrictive, on its windshield.) Medics carry a wounded soldier, on a litter,past the car, and the President shakes his hand. A new scene shows the President's VC-54C airplane (Sacred Cow) parked in front of the air base terminal building, which it topped by a sign reading: "Aloha Air Transport Command." Change of scene shows spectators filling the lower level and porch of a building at the U.S. Naval hospital, Alea Heights. Next the President's car is seen surrounded by hospital staff in formation to honor him. Nurses in white stand at attention on the ground, and a large formation of sailors stand at attention on a porch above.
A guard post covered with sandbags and a soldier stands guard beneath palm trees in Honolulu, Hawaii. The large yard area nearby and sandbags on the lawn area. A man mows the lawn. Admiral Harold Stark in his office signs papers. Hidden artillery gun and bombardiers near it. The barrel of a 50 caliber machine gun spits fire from it. Armed personnel in dungarees walk over a hill with a dead man on a stretcher. The body fully covered with cloth probably taken for burial. (World War II period).
Cars drive on the roads past the statue of King Kamehameha at a square in Honolulu, Hawaii. Barbed wire fence and rifled army sentries at the entrance of the Governor's Palace. Cars enter the palace escorted by two officers. Mountains, skyline and banks of a river. An important building nearby. Sea coast and palm trees.