History and story of the Seabees. Admiral Moreell, chief of the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Yards and Docks speaks in his office in Washington, DC. A view of the U.S. Capitol building through his window. He gives a brief history of the Seabees and introduces the film. A formation of Japanese warplanes. Views of Honolulu, Hawaii, Midway, Taviti, and Wake Islands.U.S. civilian construction workers. Hickam and Wheeler fields, in Hawaii, being bombed by Japanese airplanes. Pearl Harbor burning. U.S. casualties on stretchers. American soldiers raising the flag with fire and smoke behind them. Seebee recruitment poster. Volunteers going to enlist. Navy Seabee trainees learning military and construction skills. Practicing methods of rapid construction for combat zones. Trainees negotiating obstacle courses. Amphibious assault training. Seabee units parading in dress whites, followed by Seabees in some of their combat vehicles: DUKWs, construction graders, and bulldozers. A newly trained battalion of Seabees leaving training camp on a train. A band plays seeing them off. Seabees loading up at a port of embarkation. A troop ship seen. The troop ship moving away from the wharf, with help from tugboat. (World War II period).
Germans defend Cassino and Monte Cassino abbey in Italy during World War II. Map of Italy shown. General of the Nazi Germany, Albert Kesselring & German officers arrive in Italy and meet soldier. Kesselring gets into a jeep. German plane in the background. A man observe the posts from a roof. Gun crew at a table. They adjust artillery position. Artillery on road.
Germans defend Cassino and Monte Cassino abbey in Italy during World War II. Courtyards and stairways of Monte Cassino Abbey. Views of Monte Cassino. German officers with monks. Men remove art treasures, and books. Books and art treasures in a case.
Germans defend Cassino and Monte Cassino abbey in Italy during World War II. Cassino Monastery before U.S. Attack. U.S. bombs burst in Cassino Monastery. Ruins of Cassino Monastery. German officers with abbot of Cassino in a car. Officers salute him as car driven away. German officers and abbot of Cassino. Ruins and bombed buildings of Cassino. Men inspects ruins and evacuate casualties.
Action on the Russian Front by German soldiers in Russia during World War II. Map of Russia. German soldiers in trenches as they move up. German transport aircraft, the Junkers JU-52 drops supplies. Men carry supplies. Germans unpack meat.
Action on the Russian Front by German soldiers in Russia during World War II. German Sdkfz.250 halftrack passes through mud and infantry marches. Sdkfz.4 halftrack prepares for action. Germans in zig-zag trench and a radio post. German soldiers talk. A soldier smokes a pipe in a trench. Germans fire 150mm howitzer. Shells bursting and rockets being fired. Smoke rises from explosions. Soldiers watch through binoculars. Rare German 8.8 cm PaK 43 being fired. German Pz.III Befehls tanks and Ferdinand tank destroyers, also called Elefant tank destroyers, Panzerjäger Tiger (P) Sd.Kfz. 184, move across an open field. Knocked-out Russian KV tank and a gun. Wounded being aided in a medical center.
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