Excerpt from Kefauver Hearings. Senate's Kefauver Committee investigating crime and interstate commerce. Panel including Chairman Kefauver (Tennessee) in the hearing along with other committee members Herbert R. O'Conor (Maryland); Lester Hunt (Wyoming); Charles Tobey (New Hampshire); Alexander Wiley (Wisconsin). Close views of each member of the committee as various witnesses take the stand and address the committee. Estes Kefauver adjusting his glasses. The committee takes testimony from attorney George Levy of the Nassau Trotting Association, who is interrogated by the Committee's Chief Counsel, Rudolph Halley. .
A 1941 Chrysler Plymouth car arrives at curb and former U.S. soldier opens door for his British wife and their child. They go up steps to his home, where his mother warmly greets her new daughter-in-law and baby. View inside home where the couple and baby sit with mother-in-law and family dog. The couple play with their baby boy, and they kiss.
U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 Super Fortress in flight during World War II. Map of Pacific Ocean showing Saipan, Philippines,China and Japan. B-29 circling overhead. A B-29 on final approach over water, with landing gear down. A B-29 flies over the field with gear up. Another B-29 in level flight at altitude, with landing gear down. A B-29 makes approach and lands on the new airfield, as interested military personnel watch from side of runway.
Film opens showing a Japanese Nakajima B5N (Kate) torpedo bomber flying low over the water through hail of bullets fired from Allied ships, during World War 2. Glimpse of the plane flying past a U.S. Iowa class Battleship. Next, it flies past a U.S.New Orleans Class Cruiser. As it continues flight, away from the camera, a U.S. Mahan class destroyer appears from the left. Flak puffs of black smoke are in the air. Scene shifts to smoke rising from a bombed ship in the distant background. Change of scene shows a U.S. Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless aircraft recovering on an aircraft carrier.
U.S. 1st Marine Division destroy Japanese fortifications in Okinawa. A rocket carrying truck battery fires their rockets. Truck battery moves out for new positions. (World War II period).
Okinawan workers during the work of an airstrip in Okinawa, Japan, during World War II. The workers in a village in Okinawa, gather in a group. The workers move in a line to a desk where a pair of U.S. Military Police are seated. Each worker signs on a document. A policeman looks on. Few policemen stand behind the desk. The workers bow to an officer who walks past them. The workers move in a group. A few men in the group eating out of a bowl. The group of workers in a field which is the proposed site for the air base. The workers move in a line along a road. A few workers,with hammers in their hands, at work in the area. Sacks of sand stacked by the workers. Workers along the side of a road. Trucks with material move along the road. Heavy equipment grading the ground for the airstrip. Workers operate heavy equipment. A few workers painting the roof and sides of a building in the area. Aircraft taking off from the new airstrip.
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