Canadian sailors, wearing steel helmets, aboard an Antiaircraft destroyer, in World War 2. They watch as two practice target shooting with rifles on the ship's deck. One of them wears a cap with Canadian Naval Petty Officer insignia. View of the rifle targets. Sailors hurry to a quad-mounted Mark III Vickers .50 antiaircraft machine gun position as an officer looks through a sighting device. The gunners begin firing. Another gun crew mans what appears to be a QF 3 inch 20 cwt anti-aircraft gun, while two sailors fire hand-held Lewis machine guns, skyward. View forward from the bridge of the ship. She appears to have two more forward deck-mounted 3 inch anti-aircraft guns. View astern showing the British White Ensign flying. Other warships are seen steaming on the horizon. A sailor standing near depth charges on deck, looks through binoculars. Steamships in a convoy are seen. View of a camouflaged two-stacker destroyer in the convoy. Crew members running forward on deck, followed by explosions seen in wake of the ship as depth charges she has launched detonate.
Scene from a movie about the First World War. View from a surfaced German U Boat, where crew members watch from conning tower as a sailing merchant ship sinks. Debris from the sunken ship all around the U Boat.
Japanese newsreel early in World War 2. Identification silhouettes of U.S. warships. Surf breaking on a Japanese shore. View of a U.S. Aircraft Carrier, from a biplane that has just taken off. A U.S. Navy dirigible airship aloft over a U.S. battleship underway at sea. Large formation of what look like U.S. Boeing P-12 airplanes in flight. Glimpse of a U.S. Navy heavy Cruiser at Pearl harbor with the Aloha Tower lighthouse visible in the background. U.S. Navy crewmen in a submarine. More views of a U.S. Aircraft Carrier. A U.S. Navy submarine submerging. Aerial views of a coastline. Brief shot at end of clip shows Japanese children, all wearing sashes over one shoulder, as they shout a cheer together (possibly Banzai) and smile.
Japanese Asashio-class destroyer Asagumo at anchor, just prior to World War 2. A battleship behind it fires guns in salute. Sailors, in dress whites, line foredeck of a ship. Nautical flags fluttering overhead. Marines on deck hold rifles in present arms salute. High-ranking military delegation steps from small boat onto dock and thence up a ramp to a pier, where sailors are standing in formation. They inspect the formation. View from dock upwards at a Japanese warship. A band playing on the foredeck. Anchor being weighed. Japanese battleship underway at sea. View from airplane of two Japanese battleships underway. Two Japanese destroyers underway.
View of the British aircraft carrier, Courageous, from Fairey Swordfish aircraft that has just taken off. Captain Schuhart, commander of the German submarine U-29 enters harbor with crew on deck after successfully sinking the British Aircraft Carrier, Courageous, off the coast of England, on September 17, 1939. Captain Schuhart steps from the U-29 to the shore and is immediately awarded the Iron Cross, first class. His crew members are seen wearing awards of Iron Cross, second class. German Destroyers underway in the North Sea. They maneuver guns and torpedo launchers. A boarding party from a German destroyer accosts a merchant vessel, which they board and signal as OK. The boarding party returns to the destroyer, which then steams away at high speed.
USAAF B-29 Superfortress bombers descends to land. The USAAF B-29 lands on an airstrip and taxis. The crewmen deplane and poses in front of the B-29.