Opening scene shows Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek seated with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Madam Chiang in their Cairo meeting at a residence of the American Ambassador to Egypt, Alexander Kirk, on November 25, 1943, during World War 2. Foreign ministers of the countries stand behind their leaders. Closeups of the three Country's leaders. Scene jumps to Teheran, with Soviet Leader, Joseph Stalin, President Roosevelt, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, seated on a veranda of the Soviet Embassy. Suddenly scenes of tanks, trucks, and Soviet troops moving on the Eastern front are seen. Some of the troops move by horse-drawn sleighs through the snow. A line of U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 bombers taxiing on an airfield. View from a B-17 in flight. View f as a cluster of bombs falls from B-17 and explodes on the ground. Animated map illustrating paths of aircraft attacks against the German Atlantic Wall from England. Landing craft underway in an amphibious assault. Brief view from a ship of a post-war test atomic explosion in the Pacific ocean
A fleet of Fighter-Bomber aircraft (Lockheed P-38 Lightning) of the United States Army Air Force in flight over the South Pacific Ocean during World War II. The 339th Fighter Squadron of the United States Army Air Force intercepted and shot down Imperial Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in 1943. Three Lockheed P-38 Lightning fly together. One by one, the three aircraft tilt to the right downward. A fleet of Lockheed P-38 Lightning flying in formation near the clouds as seen from an aircraft’s side window. Three Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft went up to a higher altitude vertically in unison.
German troops land in Japan during World War II. German cruiser Thor in the Pacific Ocean. Sailors on rail. The sailors stand at attention. Seaplanes are catapulted from the ship. A seaplane taxis on water. An Allied freighter underway in the Pacific Ocean. The cruiser captures the freighter and later docks in a Japanese port. Japanese naval officers come aboard. German and Japanese flags. German crew visits military graves near Mount Fuji.
Crew activities aboard 'The Fighting Lady', the USS Yorktown, CV-10, in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Sailors on board the day before attacking Japanese forces on Marcus Island. USS Yorktown underway in the Pacific Ocean. U.S. navy sailors drink coffee and play cards. They lie on bunk beds while listening to a crewman play an accordian. Men with tattoos on their legs and hands. Men play cards. A tanker comes to refuel the ship. Fuel lines between ships with rough seas. A weather balloon is released by a crewman. The skipper talks to the air group commander and view maps of Marcus Island. An animated map with large Japanese logo on it shows the path the USS Yorktown will take through the Marshall Islands to Marcus Island. The air group commander explains about the attack and shows with his hands some fine points in air dog fighting. The crewmen play games and write letters home before the strike. The radio plotting room. A lieutenant named E.T. Stocker plays cards with other officers. Sunset wide shot of USS Yorktown underway.
USS Yorktown also called 'Fighting Lady' underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. A high ranking naval officer comes aboard USS Yorktown as sailors salute. U.S. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in a Red Cross uniform comes aboard USS Yorktown. Mrs. Roosevelt speaks into a microphone as sailors listen to her. Naval officers give three cheers and wave their hats. Admiral's barge comes alongside. Ship's band in the foreground. Four star admiral's flag flies aboard the ship. Admiral's barge as admiral goes aboard. Barge gets underway. Admiral's barge underway as men stand at attention near rail line in the foreground.
USS Yorktown also called 'Fighting Lady' underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. U.S. Navy Admiral Chester W. Nimitz accompanied by others as he shakes hands with officers in the operations room aboard USS Yorktown. He inspects the plotting board on the bulkhead. Admiral Nimitz stands on the quarter deck as ship's captain greets officers coming aboard the ship.