Ingenious and humorous floats in a parade during Mardi Gras at Camp New Orleans, Paris, France during World War II. Two men under blankets in a car with a banner 'Post War Plans'. A man dressed as Statue of Liberty. United States flag. On a truck a man poses on a bed as a photographer takes his picture. Women stand in and around a coffee mug on a truck. 'American Red Cross' written on the truck. Soldiers sing at a microphone. Soldiers stand near signboard of canal street watch the parade. On a truck men work on electric poles. Men hoist American flag on 'Shemper field'. Tents in the background. Soldiers watch the parade. An explosion occurs on a truck. A soldier rides a horse followed by a tram.
Atrocities committed by Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) soldiers in China and other parts of Asia during World War II. War workers in offices, factories, and mills shift their attention to the narrator. Smoke rises from factory smokestacks and chimneys. American workers manufacture war materiel in factories. Factory workers shovel coal to the furnace. Japanese soldiers abuse elderly Chinese women. A Japanese soldier toss an infant before striking with a bayonet midair. A Chinese woman watches with shock. IJA troops drag and bury Chinese civilians alive. IJA troops burn cities and shoot victims at close range. Soldiers place the remains of dead Chinese men, women, and children in truck. Japanese soldiers torture and kill Chinese civilians and are depicted killing American Prisoners of War (POW). Aerial views of San Francisco, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and New York. A dead Japanese soldier with flies covering his face. A newly built M4 Sherman tank moves inside a factory. Body of a Japanese soldier wearing round glasses. Dead Japanese soldiers seen with repeating American wartime propaganda message that every piece of wartime production "kills a Jap." Tanks, trucks, planes, shells, guns, and artillery are manufactured in United States factories and plants during World War II. Americans urged to take war jobs to help win World War 2.
On Utah and Mormonism (LDS or Latter Day Saints). Dramatization of the Mormon migration, showing large wagon train crossing prairies and wagons, horses, and cowboys crossing a river; scenes of snow covered mountains as people continue westward; view of people overlooking Salt Lake City valley. Mormon people farming, locust attack on farms and people massed together beating down locusts with shovels. Depiction of seagulls arriving in mass to destroy the locusts. Actual footage showing elevated view of Salt Lake City including Mormon Temple, Temple Square, and Utah State Capitol building in the mid 1940s. View of Fort Douglas building in Utah. Sign on board reads 'Separation Center Fort Douglas'. U.S. Army soldier at the separation center in Fort Douglas after his return from duty in World War 2. Army corporal receives a certificate that reads 'United States Army Honorable Discharge'. U.S. Army Corporal with his wife.
The Allied occupation of Japan begins. United States Navy ships in Tokyo Bay at Yokosuka Japan. USS San Diego warship (CL-53), a Light Cruiser, is seen, along with USS Lansdowne (DD-486), a Gleaves-class Destroyer. (World War II period).
United States Missouri, destroyer warship. Allied representatives disembark from ship. They get in to the car. Japanese representatives stand. Photographers take pictures. (World War II period).
United States military forces on Nasugbu beach, Philippines Islands. Soldiers of the 6th ranger Battalion with artillery piece. Smoke rises from artillery striking shore across body of water. U.S. soldiers moving along dirt road as some pick up their packs and gear from under a tree and moving out with the rest. U.S. intelligence officer interviews Mrs Betty Santa Maria, a Spanish Citizen who had been permitted by Japanese to leave Manila and come to Nasugbu, several weeks earlier. Partly disassembled Piper L-4 Grasshopper Liaison airplane on truck crosses small bridge. Soldiers inspect wreckage of a Nakajima Ki-43 "Oscar" in a grassy field. Another Piper L-4 being transported on a truck. A landing ship in the background.