An assortment of Japanese planes scattered all over in the grass at Tokyo municipal airport. Included are a Japanese "Shiragiku" plane with green cross on side. A helicopter flying by. A 2PA-B3 plane built by Seversky corporation (based on the P35 fighter, purchased pre-war as a long-range escort fighter but sold off for civil use). Japanese "hickory" plane. Scrapped Douglas DC5 transport . Several DC-3s and other unidentified aircraft are also seen. Salvaged Japanese planes from World War II. Hangars and airfield. An American C-47 and small high wing monoplane with radial engine (possibly a UC-81).Transport ship on bay and a Japanese Mitsubishi C5M "Babs" reconnaissance aircraft.
U.S. aircraft carriers in the Sea of Japan. Launch of carrier-based missions to attack Japanese shipping and airfields in World War II. Aircraft readying on carrier deck including F6F Hellcats, TBF Avenger, and SB2C Helldivers. Scenes of attacks by U.S. aircraft on Japanese targets in Tokyo Bay, seen via gun camera footage. U.S. Navy fighter aircraft returning to land on carrier have accidents. One lands but overshoots and runs off the end of the deck and into the ocean, striking another aircraft on the way. Another fighter aircraft is seen landing on a carrier deck but the supplemental fuel tank beneath it detaches and explodes and the plane erupts into flames. The burned pilot is rushed to safety by crews and firefighting crews battle the blaze. Scenes of dead American sailors and airmen being buried at sea.
Fire watch tower near harbor on ground of the Tokyo fire boat house, seen soon after the end of World War 2. Hose hung from tower to dry. Man stand on the fire tower.
The U.S. Navy task force underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. The U.S. Navy planes take off from an carrier aircraft. U.S. sailors on the deck. The airplanes take off from the deck one after the other. A signal man gives a signal. Insignia of the United States on the airplanes. The airplanes in flight. The aircraft carrier underway. The airplanes in flight over the Tokyo Bay. The airplanes drop bombs on the Tokyo area. Explosions on the ground. Smoke rises due to explosions. Rockets are dropped at the Japanese War Installation on the field. The installation being shelled. Aerial view of the bombed area. An airplane in flight and drop bombs. The Japanese planes parked on the ground and are destroyed. The planes burn on the ground. An airplane in flight.
Re-enacted broadcast of the 'Zero Hour' by Iva Ikuko Toguri as 'Orphan Ann' from Radio Tokyo. Iva Ikuko Toguri begins the broadcast, saying, 'Greetings everybody! This is your Number One Enemy, your favorite playmate, Orphan Ann on Radio Tokyo...the little sunbeam whose throat you'd like to cut! Get ready again for a vicious assault on your morale, 75 minutes of music and news for our friends...I mean, our enemies!' A male announcer, possibly her husband, Felipe d' Aquino, reads propaganda news about Pacific battles and American casualties. Toguri was wrongly tried and sentenced for being 'Tokyo Rose' a supposed Radio Tokyo character that was never identified. (World War II period).
Re-enacted broadcast of the 'Zero Hour' by 'Orphan Ann' from Radio Tokyo. Radio announcer Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Iva Ikuko Toguri before marriage) speaking in English tells about her life since the day she left Los Angeles where she was born and came to Japan to visit a sick aunt. She talks about how she came to work for the Japanese government. Iva Ikuko Toguri would later be wrongly convicted as the voice behind 'Tokyo Rose' a legendary radio personality that was never found.