Relocation of Japanese ancestry people, in United States due to security reasons, during World War II. Military Police guard with rifle at the entrance of Japanese-American internment camp in Missouri. Nisei, the Japanese of second generation in United States, at various works and profession after released from the relocation centers. Nisei farmers work in sugar beet field. A couple leaving the center gets its details checked by Military Police official and gets in a bus. A family released from an evacuation home. Details of evacuees read by an officer. Nisei work at corn field in Illinois, mechanical machines. Nisei nurse at a hospital aids a woman. Nisei man drives tractor, work on machines, feeds chicken, work in potato farms, with printing machines, at candy factory. Nisei women work making dolls, in garment factory, break eggs for military supply and stitch flags. A Nisei at a book binding factory shows his salary check.
Relocation of Japanese ancestry people, in United States due to security reasons, during World War II. Nisei, the Japanese of second generation in United States, in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team of the U.S. Army. Troops march, undergo physical training. Troops trained for a combat operation. Soldiers practice firing with artillery and mortar launcher. Soldiers run through an obstacle course at Camp Shelby in Mississippi Troops of armed Nisei soldiers pass by the U.S. national flag.
As World War II heats up, 16,500,000 men between ages 21 to 36 register themselves throughout the United States, signing up during the first peacetime conscription in U.S. history. (This was triggered by passage of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, also known as the Burke-Wadsworth Act, the genesis of "Selective Service.") Opening scene shows men lining up to register for the draft before the United States entered World War 2. Views of men filing out their registration forms. At 00:22 famous prize fighter, Barney Ross, is being registered. (He jokes that the registrar shaking his hand has too strong a grip.) At 00:34 Hollywood cowboy Gene Autry is seen registering. Close up view of street signs at Chinatown intersection of Bayard Street and Mott Street in New York City. Sign below it notes "School Street. Drive Slowly. Make no unnecessary noise." Line of many registrants of Chinese-American descent waiting in line, and processing paperwork. Scene changes to another area of the city, where a line of mostly African American men wait outside a registration building. Some cheer and wave for the camera. A police officer at the entrance hustles them inside, pulling some of them along. View of the exterior of the White House in Washington DC. United States President Franklin D Roosevelt addresses the nation's men of draft age, telling them that the call up of 800,000 men for training in year one, and less than one million men in each subsequent year, is a program of defensive preparation only. Roosevelt says to the registrants that "Democracy is your cause. The cause of youth." ( Note: clip is silent except for President Roosevelt speaking at the end.)
On the eve of the embargo calling off shipments of scrap metal to Japan, cargo ships lined at harbor in Seattle, Washington to load with valuable junk for Nipponese war machines. Cranes load scrap metals to the cargo ships. Small tugs and boats near the ships at harbor.
United States Army trains mules for war at Fort Lewis in Washington. Soldiers of the 99th Field Artillery train horses. They carry artillery equipment on a mountain terrain. Cavalier soldiers on their mules run down steep hill. Some soldiers fall off their mules.
A $200,000 ship, the SS American Leader, is launched at a dock in San Francisco, California. People at dock watch the launching ceremony. Streamers on the electric welded ship as it slides down into sea and sails. Other boats and tugs in the bay near the ship can also be seen.
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