Reconstruction showing a Japanese Admiral at headquarters on a Pacific Island during World War II. A Japanese four star Admiral and Staff Officer in headquarters listen to war results on radio. Admiral hears of kamikaze suicide of 43 Japanese aircraft, he stands up and bows to shrine.
Crew of a U.S. submarine use cables, a steel pole, and lines to hoist and maneuver a torpedo that has just been delivered to them, while at sea, during World War 2. They maneuver the torpedo over the deck, using a steel pole and cables and lines. A blimp is seen overhead. A small escort craft is seen nearby. Back on deck, the sub crew has successfully lowered the torpedo into a hatch and are controlling it with lines as it descends into the interior of the submarine. They quickly disassemble their hoisting apparatus, when finished. Another view of the support craft.
The USS Crevalle (SS-291) on war patrols in East China Sea and Sea of Japan in final days of World War II. Crew members hold a flag they made depicting their engagements with Japanese shipping. It shows Japanese Navy Rising Sun flag with marks below for five Japanese Navy ships. It also shows the Japanese Red Ball flag and fourteen marks for other Japanese ships. As the film continues, it reveals more of the flag, showing more encounters with enemy shipping. A Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) passing by. Sailors standing on deck in bright sunlight with breeze blowing. One of the sailors is drinking from a mug. Sailor Robert Schwarz has grown a notable full beard and smokes a pipe. Toward the end of the film, the boat's Captain, Navy Captain Everett Hartwell Steinmetz, is seen from the back and in profile, standing on deck. Another aircraft passes overhead. (Note: Sailors holding flag in opening frames has been identified as James A. Katchis who served on the boat beginning as a Seaman 1st Class in August 1944 and Robert Schwarz of St. Louis, MO)
At film start, sailors on a surfaced U.S. submarine wave at other sailors sitting on the floating remains of a sunken Japanese destroyer, during World War 2. It is nighttime and the scene is filmed in moonlight. Two sailors on the submarine, silhouetted in moonlight, raise their arms toward the survivors on the remains of the destroyer, who raise their arms to surrender, in response. Next, Japanese survivors are seen on the deck of the submarine, taken aboard the submarine. A U.S. navy officer, smoking a cigar, removes shirt from one prisoner and checks him for contraband. Next, a group of Japanese survivors on the wreck, raise their arms in surrender. View of the submarine deck as it backs away from the floating wreckage. Glimpse of other warships low on the horizon. Camera pans over more floating wreckage. Sailors in conning tower of the submarine. One on deck next to the conning tower waves at the camera. More floating wreckage. One sailor on the submarine deck holds a Thompson submachine gun. Sailors gathered in the conning tower of the submarine and posing for the camera, on deck, in front of it. Glimpse of the officer with his cigar, looking out at floating wreckage in the water. The submarine moves slowly toward a survivor standing on another piece of floating wreckage.
Film begins showing Sailors aboard a U.S. surfaced submarine in the Pacific, during World War 2, as they fire at a nearby floating mine, which explodes raising a huge column of water. Next, they meet and proceed in parallel with another surfaces American submarine. Closeups of crew on the camera boat as they watch the other submarine as they both make way in rough water. Sailors on the other submarine crowd its conning tower and upper deck. Closeups of crew on camera boat heaving on a line that has been fired between the two submarines. The camera boat sends a large package across to the other submarine via the line.
Film begins with view of forward deck on a U.S. submarine in calm waters, during World War 2. A Japanese survivor of a sunken warship is seen on a raft of wreckage. The submarine positions itself and lowers lines that the Japanese sailor uses to board the American boat, where he is taken as a prisoner of war. Closeup of a three-masted Japanese boat that begins to raise some sail as it is being observed. The sailboat seen at some distance with empty masts and no sign of anyone on board. View of the deck gun on the deck of the submarine. It fires and causes the sailboat to explode.