U.S. Army training film depicts functions of M3 Stuart light tanks and M3 Lee Medium tanks. A tank parked on a field. A crew working on the maintenance of the tank. They tighten nuts and bolts, clean machinery and check the tank tools and guns. They change the oil and grease the parts of the tank. The tank moves on the field.
German troops in Europe during World War I. Smoke spreads in a battlefield area from smoke bombs or gas.
Film titled 'Combat Report' depicts the construction of U.S. B-25 Mitchell bomber aircraft to attack German submarine during World War II. Exteriors of U.S. War Department building in Washington D.C., United States. U.S. Assistant Secretary of War for air Robert Lovett and Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson seated at desk. U.S. officer looks at combat report at his desk. View of a oil tanker hit by torpedo as it sinks in the Gulf of Mexico. View of crewman at controls and a tower. Combat report being typed. U.S. sailors type report at typewriters. Man speaks into radio. Navy officer instructs an officer. U.S. B-25 Mitchell bomber aircraft in flight over sea. Pilot and copilot at controls in B-25. The position of attack being radioed to a U.S. B-25 Mitchell bomber aircraft in flight over sea. Interior views of cockpit of B-25 bomber, and of Instrument panel of B-25. Engine of planes. Men in war production aircraft factory at work building and assembling aircraft during World War 2. Blast furnace in factory. The airplane engines being assembled, tested and installed in B-25.
Dramatization in which U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchell bomber aircraft is constructed in the United States for combat operations during World War II. B-25 in flight over the Gulf of Mexico. Shows different sections of B-25 in flight. Factories in the United States where B-25 is shaped and skins are developed. Women workers inspect altimeters and other aircraft instruments.
The return of "Carlson's Raiders," to Pearl Harbor following their successful Makin Raid in World War 2. View from a high point overlooking a wharf at Pearl Harbor, as the USS Nautilus (SS-168) approaches. The wharf is crowded with a military honor guard, a reception committee of high ranking naval officers, and other well-wishers. (Unrelated sequence inserted, of a surfaced submarine, as it fires its deck gun and smoke arises in the sea from a burning ship in the distance.) Scene shifts back to Pearl Harbor, again. This time it shows the USS Argonaut (SS-166) docked, and Admiral Chester Nimitz boarding the submarine and shaking hands with Lieutenant Commander John R. Pierce, USN, its Commanding Officer. Major James Roosevelt, USMCR, (President Roosevelt's son) who is Executive Officer of the Second Raider Battalion (Carlson's Raiders) salutes Nimitz, who then shakes hands with him. Scene shifts again, to deck of the USS Nautilus, where Admiral Nimitz, holding Japanese war trophies from the Makin Raid, discusses them with a young officer from the Second Raider Battalion. View of arms and equipment of the Marines on the submarine deck. Sailors transport a wounded Marine on a litter. Marine Raiders begin to leave the submarine and walk past a military honor guard with rifles at parade rest.
Cockpit of Memphis Belle B-17 with crew member in silhouette. Crew member looks into the bomb sight and adjusts controls. Engine with spinning propeller as seen through window while in flight. Several dark shots followed by a view of the sky above as seen through the upper canopy. Brief shot of crew member silhouetted within cockpit.