United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CVS-18) in the United States. Three high-ranking officers sit around a desk in a flag plot. An enlisted man talks over a telephone in the background. An officer answers a telephone on a stand near his desk. He hangs back the telephone. Two officers seated at a desk. One officer stands in the background. Two enlisted men stand in the background. They stand near a plot board in the flag plot. Three officers seated around a desk. Two plotters stand in the background. They stand before their plot boards. The officers receive information over their sound powered telephones. An officer seated at a desk in the foreground. Two plotters stand in the background. One officer stands between the two men. The officer in the foreground rises from his seat. Another officer comes and looks at the plot boards. A Rear Admiral wearing a hat sits at his desk. He stands before the plot board next to the plotter.
United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CVS-18) in the United States. The Commanding Officer of USS Wasp seated in his chair on the bridge. He hangs up his telephone. He gives orders to O.O.D.(Officer Of the Deck). He picks up another telephone. He hangs the telephone back after talking on the telephone. He leans over to speak to the O.O.D. The Commanding Officer speaks over a telephone on the bridge. He hangs the telephone and turns back around.
The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) John Edgar Hoover talks about enemy agents and spies in the U.S. at the time of World War II. Two officers sit in an office. German and Japanese suspects in the United States. A German agent on a street. A Japanese spy takes photographs from a bridge. Purported Nazi German agents arriving as tourists in the United States. German and Japanese diplomats greeting one another and exchanging a Nazi salute. The conference room of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Officers discuss the activities of Nazi German secret agents and Imperial Japanese agents operating in South America. Nazi signs on an animated map show the advance of German agents in areas such as Patagonia. Narrator states that Nazi German and Imperial Japanese agents setup radio listening posts in multiple locations in South America to track and report on U.S. shipping in the world's oceans. Animated map shows settlements northward migration through Brazil of "more than 300,000 Japanese colonists". Animation shows expansion of German airline services through South America from Argentina to Colombia.
Aerial view of Christ Redeemer Statue on Mount Corcovado, Brazil. The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), John Edgar Hoover, narrates this 1944 clip and talks about enemy agents in the United States during World War II, before America's entrance into the war. German and Japanese suspects seen in South America. A German fleet carries German agents aboard merchant and cargo ships. German agents in formation on deck of ship, shown debarking the ship after receiving instructions. Japanese and Nazi German colonies being established in South America in large cities and in remote areas of Patagonia. Automobile industries, hotels, shops, and other industries established by Nazi German agents. German signs and Nazi Swastikas and Nazi flags shown on some buildings in South American countries including Brazil. A Nazi flag. A view of German factories in South America. Photographs of Adolf Hitler in a school building where young boys and girls are being instructed by their teacher. German pilot shown operating a passenger airliner; aerial view of from aircraft of Rio de Janeiro Brazil, including port and city areas. A dramatization depicts well planned accidents in the factories and sabotage attempts to slow production of goods bound for the United States. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) receives reports about planning of German attack on the Panama Canal. A woman watching a teletype machine as a report arrives. A man in a radio room of the Federal Bureau of Investigation receives information and turns to type out a report on his typewriter. Men and women convicted as spies are seen together in a room with U.S. federal agents. The spies are taken in a police van. Man serving as projectionist seen running a film projector. A film of Fritz Duquesne case in the FBI office shows FBI Agents' successful secret filming of members of the Duquesne spy ring. The film is shown being loaded onto a projector and then played. FBI agent William Sebold (posing as spy Harry Sawyer) is seen with Fritz Duquesne and other spy ring members: Pedestrians and vehicular traffic on a New York street corner as Sawyer and Duquesne prepare to meet. German spies sit together in a hotel room in New York City, recorded by hidden camera. Heinrich Clausing, a spy ring member and former cook on the cruise ship SS Argentine is seen. Also seen is Hartwig Richard Kleiss putting on his hat and smoking a cigar. He's shown giving money to Sawyer for purchase of a spy camera, according to narration. J Edgar Hoover notes that German agents communicated through a Long Island radio station that was secretly controlled by the FBI. Hartwig Kleiss is seen showing the blueprint plans of the steamship SS America, including plans for its secret gun emplacements. Fritz Duquesne is shown in the film, removing diagrams of various American arms that he had concealed in his sock Japanese agent Takeo Ezima, of the Imperial Japanese Navy, is also seen meeting in the hotel with Harry Sawyer.
Women's Army Corps in the United States. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, created in 1942 is converted to WAC (Women's Army Corps) in 1943. A WAC carries a cake. 'WAAC' written on the cake. A WAC walks outside a building. Several men stand and talk. The WACs parade on a field. A United States flag. Duties performed by WACs. Women work as mechanics and handle complicated equipment. They take photographs through cameras. The U.S. Capitol building in view. U.S. Army General George Marshall and U.S. Secretary of State Henry Stimson. Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby is the first commanding officer of WAC. A dramatization depicts recruitment and induction of WAACs. A sign reads 'WAAC, information and recruiting'. A woman appears in an interview. The women undergo physical examination and are then recruited. WAACs undergo a training. They perform physical exercises and swim. Several WACs go to specialization classes. WACs cook food. A woman receives an award for her husband's bravery during World War II.
Aircraft in flight during United States Air Corps Demonstrations at Command Schools in United States. U.S. Army Air Corps bomber aircraft Keystone LB-5 in flight. Planes in formation. Several U.S. Army Air Corps Curtiss-Martin bomber aircraft NBS-1 in flight in formation. Aerial view of the land below.
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