Dramatization shows how one defective walkie-talkie can impair battle plans, United States. U.S. transporters including cruisers, destroyers and crew carrying ships underway in South Pacific on a mission to attack on Japanese installation and Island no. 6. A personnel plays whistle from the bridge of cruiser. Interior of manned radio operations room:Task Force officers sitting around table and discuss over battle plans. A personnel talks on radio device. American bombers in formation flight. Pilot and copilot in cockpit. American aircraft drop bombs on Japanese installation. Explosion and large column of smoke rise. Task Force officers look at map of Japanese island no. 6 in the radio room. Animated map shows Japanese Island no. 6 showing an amphibious landing and bombers on a mission. U.S. soldiers on landing crafts with walkie-talkies. Artillery fire on the Pacific island. Troops disembark from the landing craft and heads towards beach area. Soldiers move into action and fire artillery. (World War II period).
American soldiers are assembled on outdoor stands on a sand beach in World War 2. Next, soldiers are seen climbing down rope nets on a stand designed to simulate leaving a troop ship. Brief closeup of some of the soldiers descending the nets. Change of scene to a sandy area shows soldiers in a simulated landing craft rushing out of it in a practice drill. Soldiers in wheeled vehicles simulating landing craft armed with machine guns. Troops, in live fire training, crawl over water-filled ditches as a trainer fires a Browning M1917 30cal machine gun across the area. Shells bursting in the area. A soldier stretches himself in prone position across a barbed wire fence. Other soldiers climb over him to cross the fence. Several combat soldiers holding rifles which are used as a ladder for climbing a barbed entanglement.
Film opens with aerial view from overflying aircraft, of the aircraft carrier, U.S. Navy ship USS Independence (CVA-62) underway. Scene shifts to Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia Beach, Virginia, where a ramp is filled with a variety of aircraft. A pair of Douglas A-4 Skyhawk aircraft are taxiing. View of men in the Control Tower with large radar array in background. Two A-4 Skyhawks approach and one lands as the other goes around. Complete change of scene, to Halifax Nova Scotia, where warships of the Royal Canadian Navy are berthed. In waters off the Grand Banks, the Canadian Navy Aircraft carrier, HMCS Bonaventure (CVL 22) is seen making way at high speed during anti-submarine exercises.
Animation depicts the high cost of living in Hawaii. A coconut palm tree on a beach. Man comes out of hut and climbs tree to get a coconut marking year 1900. Second time man wanting coconut. Tree becomes tall and coconut marks year 1920. Shows how high cost of living causes social unrest. Short palm tree with coconut marking year 1925.
President Woodrow Wilson signs documents. Russian spy Colonel Rudolph Ivanovich Abel outside Federal Court in New York City in 1957. Julius Rosenberg. Ethyl Rosenberg. John Anthony Walker, Chief Warrant Officer and communications specialist for the U.S. Navy, who spied for the Soviet KGB from 1968 to 1985. View of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Federal Building, in Boston, Massachusetts. Barbara Walker speaks. Pictures of John Walker alone and John and Barbara Walker seated at a park. View of Barbara Walker's home in West Dennis, Massachusetts. View of the Walker's restaurant. Apartment house in Norfolk Virginia, where the Walkers lived, and boat, airplane, and real estate they owned. Walker in U.S. Navy uniform and at beach with children. Walker residence, Algonquin House Apartment building. Diagrams of drop sites and instructions used by John Walker. U.S. Capitol building. Holiday Inn hotel where the Walkers stayed in Northern Virginia. Documents stamped Top Secret and 35,000 dollars in cash. F-14 Tomcat aircraft landing on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier ship deck. Photo of Laura Walker Snyder. Needles moving on Polygraph (lie-detector) machine. Convoy of warships underway. Photo of John Walker with other Naval crewmen. Photo of Soviet Embassy in Washington, DC. Photo of cryptographic key card. U.S. Navy nuclear submarine on surface. Zayre store in Washington, D.C. area. Drop site maps. Exterior of Ramada Inn hotel in Rockville, Maryland. Photo of John Walker's retirement party in 1977. Maps of North Africa and Europe. Photo of instructions for passing information at meeting sites in Vienna, Austria. Photo of Walker's residence, 1985. Photo of Jerry Whitworth. Letters from Whitworth to the FBI. Soviet KGB officer, Aleksei G. TKachenko. Michael Walker and Arthur Walker under arrest. John and Michael Walker under arrest. William Sessions, FBI Director.
U.S. Navy PBY Catalina at a beach in the United States. Air crewmen standing in front of the U.S. Navy PBY Catalina. PBY going down a sea plane ramp. The airplane taxiing in water. PBY in flight overhead.
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