Allied campaigns against Imperial Japan during World War II. Animated map depicts Allied victories in various Pacific islands like Guadalcanal, Palau, and the Mariana Islands. A map of the Philippines. United States troops invade the Philippines. Naval guns fire at a shore and flak bursts are seen. Dramatic shot of a Japanese Zero aircraft approaching United States Navy ships that are firing guns. The Japanese aircraft is hit at close range to the ship, a wing ruptures, it is consumed in fire and crashes with explosion in the sea beside the ship. Many landing craft with U.S. Army forces landing at beach on Leyte. Soldiers land and advance inland. United States Army General Douglas MacArthur and President Sergio Osmeña of the Philippines wade ashore. Filipino women and children on the island are assisted by U.S. forces and provided with food and protection. Following are meetings of wartime Allied leaders, shown briefly in the ending of the film: Prime Minister Winston Churchill meeting President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the battleship, USS Augusta, at Newfoundland, during the Atlantic Conference, 1941. Roosevelt stands at the railing, assisted by his son, Army Captain Elliot Roosevelt. Roosevelt and Churchill meeting with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, at the Cairo conference, in 1943. Joseph Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill pose outside the Livadia Palace (Baturyna St, 44-а, Livadiya, 98655) during the Yalta conference in 1945. Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, American Ambassador Harriman, British Foreign Minister, Anthony Eden, and Churchill's daughter, Sarah, in uniform, are among those standing behind the seated Big Three. Delegates from 51 Nations gathered for the first meeting of the UN General Assembly, in Westminster Central Hall, London, England, in 1946.
U.S. Army Air Forces fighter planes, P-51 Mustangs in flight over the Mariana Islands. Three planes in view. Fourth one joins in the formation. P-51s fly over the clouds.
Firemen try to extinguish the fire as a heavy bomber B-29 Superfortress of the U.S. Army Air Forces burns in the Mariana Islands. A crashed B-29 burns. Thick black smoke rises. Firemen try to douse the fire. (World War II period).
B-29 and P-51 planes of the U.S. Army Air Forces in the Mariana Islands. Two fighter planes P-51 Mustangs in flight. A lone P-51 plane flies over the airfield. A crashed P-51 plane on the ground. A truck and few soldiers stand near the crashed plane. A man holds a fire hose. A P-51 taxies and takes off. P-51 in flight. A bomber plane B-29 Superfortress taxies on the ground. (World War II period).
U.S. soldiers mill around the tent area in the Mariana Islands. The soldiers mill about between two rows of tents. (World War II period).
U.S. military operations in the Mariana Islands. A wrecked B-29. A gun emplacement on a small highland. A man near the gun. The man positions the barrel of the gun. Several people and some vehicles move in the distant background. A power shovel in operation. (World War II period).