United States planes drop medical supplies and engineers gather supply parachutes in Shingbwiyang, Burma during World War II. Captain R.D.Underwood, and an assistant prepare and inject penicillin to Captain James I. Green's leg. Captain Green's jaw being examined and given liquid diet.
United States 28 Troop volunteers and black combat engineers chop trees and blast the strip in Shingbwiyang, Burma during World War II. Sergeant Bremer and Captain Scott fix dynamites in the blast holes and blast goes off. Colonel Clarence and Major Arthur R. Dewey, special surgeon meets Dr. Underwood and enters hospital tent. Soldiers empty mud with cardboard boxes. Men roll a log up and down the strip to level it.
A film titled 'Ulithi Anchorage' shows United States 5th fleet ships anchored at Ulithi, a group of coral islands, in West Caroline in the Pacific during World War II. An aircraft flies over the ships. An island with an airstrip is seen. All kinds of ships - carriers loaded with bombers, mother ship and its destroyer, dry dock for repairs and a hospital ship are seen.
American sailors occupy a Japanese naval base south of Yokohama in Japan. Destroyed Japanese aircraft are seen. Japanese workers prepare for the arrival of General MacArthur. A B-29 aircraft lands and General MacArthur gets down from the plane. Surrender ceremony takes place aboard United States Navy Battleship USS Missouri (BB-63), as large number of soldiers and sailors witness it. An 11-member Japanese delegation photographed by cameramen. Japanese Foreign Minister and General MacArthur sign the surrender papers. General Wainwright also signs them. A map shows Allied zones of occupation.
Italian Prisoners of War (POW) at bunking space on the hangar deck aboard United States Navy ship USS Wasp (CV-18) as they return to Naples, Italy after the end of World War II. One of the prisoners plays guitar as others listen. A Pilot being hoisted in Boatswain chair from a boat alongside the ship. An Italian soldier gets a haircut from an Italian barber on the deck of the ship.
Italian Prisoners of War carry their baggage and move down the gangway as they disembark the United States Navy ship USS Wasp (CV-18) in Naples, Italy after World War II. They load the baggage on to military trucks on the dock.