View of a motorboat heading toward an Japanese Imperial Navy Niagra-class light cruiser anchored near a submarine, in waters off Kiska,in the Aleutian Islands, during World War 2. Scene shifts to Japanese naval guns firing. A U.S. Army Air forces B-24 Liberator bomber is seen in flight overhead. Explosion and smoke fills scene next to Japanese camera ship, and then another bomb explodes in the water nearby. A Japanese submarine and destroyer are in the background. Japanese ship fires anti-aircraft guns at a U.S. PBY-5 Catalina in flight overhead. Camera follows flight of the Catalina past ship's funnel which is emitting black smoke. Another bomb hits water near the ship. More anti-aircraft fire is seen from the ship. The Catalina turns away, with a slight trail of smoke behind. Next, a large explosion is seen from a bomb striking near the shore. A Catalina, flying toward the camera ship, passes over a hill, through black flak clouds, and is struck. It descends, emitting trailing puffs of black smoke and strikes the shoreline in an explosion and black smoke.
As film begins, two U.S. B-24 bombers are seen taxiing across the Adak airfield to takeoff on a bombing run against the Japanese airfield at Kiska Island. Closeup of B-24 with engines running. About an inch of water covers the ramp. The two bombers take off (followed by others unseen). Airmen on the ground watch them depart. Scene shifts to the port of Adak. A cargo ship and a tugboat moving a barge are seen in the water. Trucks drive along the beachfront. Mountains loom in the background. Military supplies, including munitions are seen piled along the beach. Soldiers carry some goods over their shoulders. Closeup of items piled on the beach. A dog trots along with soldiers walking the beach. Change of scene highlights guns installed as coastal defense on the island, including fixed heavy guns, anti-aircraft guns and machine guns. A sailor viewed through a life safer buoy, paints part of a warship. A Navy PBY Catalina on patrol is seen overhead. U.S. gunboats patrol the harbor. Crew members are seen aboard a U.S. destroyer patrolling deep waters off Adak. They exchange blinker light messages with a Bancroft-class (four-stacker) destroyer. Glimpse of the Bancroft-class destroyer flashing blinkers lights. Sailors on a destroyer respond to alarm of sonar sound contacts and man battle stations. Closeup of a Bancroft-class destroyer, followed by views of depth charges being launched from a destroyer underway. Exchanges of blinker light messages between camera destroyer and a Bancroft-class destroyer.
Views of Pearl Harbor and environs,immediately after the Japanese air raid on December 7, 1941, that forced the U.S. into World War 2 in the Pacific. Fire smoke and Wreckage, including a Navy Catalina flying boat, on Ford Island. Mechanics salvaging parts from the remaining front half (tail missing) of a U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 bomber on the tarmac at Hickam Field. Wings from a B-17 with fuselage missing, in a hangar. Pieces of Air Forces airplanes strewn in front of damaged hangar. Pieces of U.S. Navy aircraft litter the ramp in front of a Ford Island hangar. Workers in a dinghy moving in front of bomb-damaged U.S. battleships. Workers standing on the capsized hull of the USS Arizona. A diver in suit and helmet going below decks of a sunken ship. Debris floating in the water. Pumps discharging water from a damaged battleship.
The soldiers and war correspondents being transferred aboard the U.S. Navy PBY Catalina of the 2d Emergency Rescue Squadron from Motorai Island in New Guinea to Mindanao in Philippines during World War II. The PBY Catalina in flight. The coastline of an island in view. Inhabited areas in the island and rocky terrain in the island. The aircraft in flight in the sky. Two aircraft in flight. A vessel in the ocean. Few vessels in the ocean water.
Naval aircraft operations at Navy airfield on Ford Island in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, after U.S. entry into World War Two. A biplane Grumman J2F utility plane taxis. Two of them take off. A USN PBY-5A Catalina taxis on the airbase. Two Navy ground crew seated on a bench at the airbase, watching the airplanes. A land version of OS2U-3 Kingfisher, with fixed landing gear, taxis in and several ground crew help it to park. Also shown are new Brewster F2A-3 fighters.
Introduction to Midway Island and the Battle of Midway. Scenes of U.S. Navy and Marines on Midway Island during World War 2. Map of the Pacific locates Midway and other places. U.S. Navy PBY Catalina patrol planes in flight. Pilot in the cockpit of a patrol plane. View from the sea of Midway Island. U.S. Navy PT boats in the harbor. A Catalina just landed is recovered by sailors, in swim suits,who pull it ashore on a ramp. A U.S. Marine Corps honor guard carrying Marine Corps and American flag, leads a contingent of Marines marching across a pier. Sea birds in flight and Gooney birds on the ground, on Midway Island. U.S. military personnel relaxing at sunset. One plays the song,"Red River Valley," on an accordian. Others smoke and converse. Thunder is heard from isolated storm clouds in the distance.
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