Shows conflict between German U-boats and Allied convoys in Atlantic, during World War 2. Clip contains actual World War 2 footage, but sound effects, narration, and editing relate a fictionalized story. Destroyer escort with a supply convoy in the Atlantic. Sailor stands next to a steel drum depth charge chained to the deck. View of a surfaced German U-boat ostensibly tracking a convoy. Supply ships silhouetted against the sky in evening. Captain at periscope in submerged German submarine.The boat surfaces and crew goes on deck to view convoy through binoculars. Order is given to launch a torpedo. Explosion and fire seen as it hits a ship. Destroyer escort ship underway. U.S. sailors aboard convoy escort ship sight a German submarine periscope. View inside the U-boat when they know they have been detected. The U-boat crash dives and the Captain calls for silence. Crew on deck of escort ship begin launching depth charges in battle which explode to her stern. One damages the submarine and water enters it.
Animated map shows World War 2 supply convoy routes to Murmansk, Soviet Union. German Junkers 88 bombers, JU 87, Stuka dive bombers, Fokker D.XXI aircraft; and Dornier Do-17 bombers are seen as aircraft used to disrupt the convoy traffic. An officer aboard a convoy escort ship looks through binoculars. A group of German Stuka dive bombers peels off to attack the convoy. Escort warships fire antiaircraft guns at the attacking German aircraft. bombs striking a supply ship. German Me 109 aircraft flying over the convoy. An attacking German aircraft is downed and crashes into the sea. A bombed supply freighter rapidly sinks. Smoke rises from another burning ships. A long line of supply ships arriving at Russian port. Aircraft and tanks being offloaded.
Montage of scenes arranged to convey essence of British efforts to support Malta by ship convoys through the Mediterranean Sea during World War 2. Animated map showing Axis aircraft over the supply routes. A British convoy in the Mediterranean. A sailor scanning for German aircraft. Formation of German Dornier Do-17 bombers overhead. Glimpse in plane's cockpit. On a British ship underway, an antiaircraft gun crew takes action and fires. Insert of a German JU-88 bomber in flight. Antiaircraft gunfire downing a German plane that crashes into the sea. Inserted headon view of a German Me-109 in flight. British gunner rotates to vertical following an attacking airplane overhead (not seen). Inserted view of airplanes in a dogfight at high altitude generating contrails. An aircraft crashing into the sea. Gunners on an Allied aircraft carrier firing at German airplanes. A Junkers Ju-88 viewed from deck of a ship as it drops a bomb. A Ju-88 shot down and crashing into the sea. Supply ship arriving at Malta, passing by its fortifications. Men in small boats surround the ship, at anchor. Bags of food supplies piled up on a wharf and filling an open boat. Local people lined up on the pier and picking up supplies.
U.S. Submarine, USS Pickerel (SS-177) docked in Pearl Harbor during World War 2. Crew members handling lines on deck. Navy ensign displayed on stern. Shipyard derrick in background. Sub's conning tower displays several miniature Japanese flags, representing victories. Boat's officers pose on deck. Other subs docked alongside in background. Sailors ride a motorized lift transporting a torpedo to the sub. Below decks, crewmen load torpedoes into firing tubes. The Pickerel starts moving out of her berth. Animated map shows pattern of U.S. submarine operations out of Pearl Harbor, fanning out toward Japan. Views of the submarine cruising on the surface. Binocular view of ships on horizon. Crew members clear the deck and go below. The submarine submerges. Crew working at duty stations. Captain at the periscope, orders firing of number 1 torpedo. It strikes a ship Which explodes and burns with billowing black smoke.
Invasion of Manila, Philippines by Japanese troops during World War II. Japanese airplanes bomb Corregidor. Antiaircraft artillery is fired from the island. Japanese airplanes fly in formation. Japanese troops land. Smoke from bombardment and firing in the area. United States troops surrender. U.S. prisoners of war stand near Japanese soldiers as death march begins. U.S. Army General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright arrives at the surrender conference. The American flag is lowered from a flag pole and the Japanese flag is hoisted.
Animation depicts the resources and the strategic position of the Philippines during World War II. Animated map show many islands like Borneo and Java near to the Philippines. It also depicts the benefits for Japan on invading the Philippines. The abundance of oil, copper, coal and a large population in the area. Large crowd of Filipino working men wearing hard hats in an industrial or port area. Battleships underway at sea. Large crowd of Filipino people holding lighted candles march on a street at night during a ceremony.