A typical day in an aircraft carrier task force of the U.S. Navy during a mission of finding Japanese invaders in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Japanese aircraft carriers and cargo ships at sea, carrying war equipment. Aircraft in flight over water. An animated map shows bombarding at Sapan, Guam, Yap and Palau. Bombardment and explosions. A team of the aircraft carrier task force at the deck of the ship and prepares for the take off of U.S. aircraft from the carrier. A pilot in a cockpit. The aircraft take off from the carrier and bomb Manila. Smoke at a distance. An aerial view of Manila city. Another group of U.S. aircraft in flight and strafe Japanese ships.
A typical day in an aircraft carrier task force of the U.S. Navy during a mission of finding Japanese invaders in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. U.S. aircraft return to carriers and make difficult landings. An aircraft carrier task force personnel signals to a pilot for landing. The aircraft lands at the carrier. The pilot gets injured due to the rough landing. Difficult landing of the aircraft at the carrier. Commander David Mocambo of the U.S. Navy disembarks from an aircraft and talks with carrier task force personnel. One personnel sticks a Japanese flag sticker on the aircraft. Services held on the flight deck. Gunners stand at the deck and go for a training. The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier at sea with a mission of finding and killing the Japanese.
French troops liberate a town in Indochina during the Indochina War. Freed natives move with their belongings after a bloody 47-day siege. Damaged buildings and ruins. A group of French officers talks. Interiors of damaged buildings and debris. Exterior of a church. The Father of the church and a woman with children stand outside the church.
Film opens with slate reading: "Cabanatuan Prisoners' Hospitalization at Time of Repatriation." Brief view of a tent-like field hospital where former POWs were being treated, behind American lines, with rescued American POWs in beds and several Army nurses attending them. After that is an extended view of several ambulatory patients engaged in conversations at a hospital behind American lines. At TC:01:35, the scene reverts to earlier time, and a patient is seen lying in the ruins of the prison camp on the day of the rescue raid (Jan 30, 1945). He is being tended to by another soldier, with whom he converses. Two former prisoners are seen in a straw-lined cart prepared for transport back to the American lines, by water buffalo. The remainder of the film shows the former POWs and their rescuers leaving the Cabanatuan prison, on their way back to the American lines. Some non-ambulatory former prisoners are seen lying on straw- covered ground.
Film opens with slate reading: "Evacuation to Hospitals." Next, on January 30, 1945, the day of the "Cabanatuan Raid" (Mission to rescue prisoners of war from the Japanese prison camp at Cabanatuan) rescuers are seen carrying a former POW from a building, on a litter. Local Filipinos and others are standing on the porch of the prison building. An ambulatory former prisoner comes down the steps unaided. Several rescued prisoners are seated on chairs, conversing. Closeups of some of them. Two weakened and bandaged former prisoners help each other up some steps. Slate states: "Man with Cane afflicted with Beri-Beri." A severely disabled former prisoner, with a cane, makes his way unaided across the grass. Rescuers and Filipinos are in the background, along with some carts used to evacuate disabled former prisoners back behind American lines.
The role of women as active community members in the United States. A woman addresses members of the League of Women Voters. The posters of the candidates of elections on a table. Posters on a wall. Children play in a hall, being babysat by one woman as the other women meet. A woman walks with a baby in a pram. She talks to another woman. The League of Women Voters disseminates information on issues and candidates. Women members search the voters, make a list of the voters and call them to give them the information. Women make phone calls. A woman pastes the posters of candidate on a wall. People seated in a hall. Candidates address the women and talk to them about why they should vote them. People applaud. People line up in front of a hall on the election day to vote. The parents-teachers association (PTA) plans a new dance hall and organizes dance for high school students. Students dance and enjoy in the hall. They dance a square dance (Virginia Reel?) Narrator describes the new dance hall and activities there as an established weapon against juvenile delinquency. The kids eat food at the new hall. Boys attend a movie screening (sponsored by the PTA and the board of eduction) on human Birth and Growth. A lecturer points out parts of the human body in a skeleton diagram on the screen. The association sponsors dental examinations and a school lunch program for the school children. Elementary age school children receive hot food in a school lunch cafeteria line and sit together at tables eating lunch. A dentist examines the teeth of a child. A woman teaches drawing to children.
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