The U.S. forces combat the Japanese kamikaze suicide plane attacks in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. View of a radar on a tower. Animation depicts the situations in which radar detection can help detecting the enemy planes. A radar to detect the low flying planes. Men in the control room. Animation depicts the use of radar pickets and the increased area of surveillance of radar.
The U.S. forces combat the Japanese kamikaze suicide plane attacks in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. The suicide planes attack a ship at sea. A U.S. lookout watches through a binocular. The lookouts being given recognition training. A lookout observes through a binocular from the deck of a ship. A ship being attacked. Lookouts stand on the ship deck . Artillery being fired from gun barrel. Soldiers climb on the naval gun. The inclination of the gun barrel being adjusted. The U.S. ships at sea. The animation depicts the fire distribution of the ships on the suicide planes. The naval guns fire on the suicide planes. The aircraft catches fire and falls into the sea. Soldiers at the naval gun. animation depicts the course of formation of the ships to hit the target.
U.S. Army Chief of Staff George Marshall narrates film and is shown several times speaking seated at a desk. Marshall praises the Pacific Forces. Close up view of several U.S. military officers including General MacArthur (with a bandage over his right ear). Scene of U.S. Marines in combat on a Pacific Island during World War 2. U.S. marines advancing under fire. An enemy soldier is fallen in the distance, followed by a group of Japanese soldiers running for cover. Gun camera footage of a strafing attack by a U.S. aircraft on a Japanese ship, followed by strafing of parked Japanese airplanes at an airfield. Mid air dogfight scene is shown as a U.S. warplane hits and downs a Japanese aircraft. View on deck of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier ship as a Japanese kamikaze aircraft bears down toward the ship, is hit by ship's guns, loses a wing, and, in flames, crashes into the ocean just off the ship. Scenes at Pearl Harbor after the Japanese attack in 1941, as medics care for wounded U.S. sailors in stretchers. Japanese soldiers seizing control in Bataan, with U.S. soldiers holding their hands up in surrender. Also U.S. soldiers in Corregidor standing by as they are addressed by Japanese captors. Scenes of Japanese soldiers in drills and training. Japanese Emperor Hirohito on horse back during a military parade. Scenes of dead Japanese soldiers laying on battle fields after battle. View of industrial smoke stacks of a factory in Japan. Japanese workers producing steel and munitions for war effort. Japanese soldiers cheering at a military rally. George Marshall speaks urging commitment by every American citizen in the war effort. Caricature image of Axis leaders Hitler and Mussolini with "X" marks over them, beside a non-marked image of Japanese General Hideki Tojo. Clip closes with several scenes of American flags being raised on flagpoles of military bases all over the world, as soldiers, sailors, marines, women WACS soldiers, and airmen salute the American flag.
The Battle of Okinawa in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. A United States M5 tank with name "Amapola" painted on side is seen passing in the foreground. Two tanks advance and United States Army infantrymen follow behind. The tanks fire. Shells burst. The command post at the top of a ridge. The tanks firing. Smoke columns rise as the tanks fire. U.S. Army Lt General Simon Bolivar Buckner directing operations. United States 6th Marine Division tanks in a valley fire at caves on the side of a cliff. Smoke rises due to the firing, and U.S. infantry advance.
U.S. Army 77th Division in Okinawa, Japan during the Battle of Okinawa of World War II. A beach at Okinawa. Aerial view of a coastline and buildings along the coastline. Soldiers look through binoculars from a hilltop. The soldiers climb up a hill. American journalist Ernie Pyle eats with the soldiers in an open field. Men of the 307th Infantry Regiment climb the Pinnacle Rock, scaling the cliff with the help of a landing rope. The soldiers with guns in front of a cave. The soldiers stooping and moving with guns near a stone wall. The soldiers moving towards a native hut which is an enemy holdout.
U.S. 6th Marines, 22nd Regiment and 2nd Battalion in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. The Marines advance along an open field towards a high ridge. Japanese prisoners move down a roadway guarded by Marine MPs (Military Policemen). The U.S. flag is raised on a small tree on the top of the ridge overlooking ocean during flag raising ceremonies on the southern tip of Okinawa.