USS Crevalle underway in the Pacific Ocean. Crevalle flag flying in breeze from the periscope. A sailor standing on the deck of the submarine. Officers and other men in the background. Japanese flags flying on the crevalle. Men using sextant. Two men on the bridge. The American flag aboard the submarine is set up. Island in distance.
Lieutenant Commander Harvey J. Smith, Executive Officer of the American submarine, USS Tinosa (SS-283). View of him and crew of the boat lined up on the deck, at (according to slate) harbor in Rhode Island, USA. Complete change of scene to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where several Gato class submarines are lined up in the harbor, with their respective crews all standing on deck. Spectators in background.
Film begins with camera panning in closeup of three officers and sailors of submarine crew as they are underway on the surface during World War 2. View from the submarine as it moves close to a dock (ostensibly at Midway Island). Music is being played by a band of sailors. Area in background is covered with white quonset huts. The dock is filled with sailors and a number of naval officers, and another submarine is tied up at the other side of the dock. After docking, the submarine is visited by several officers who greet the officers and crew of the boat. Navy shore patrolmen excort a blindfolded Japanese prisoner of war from the submarine to a waiting truck, as a crowd of sailors watch. Camera focuses on several navy submarine officers who are conversing. Derricks and cranes are in the background.
USS Sea Owl underway in the Pacific Ocean. Sunset view of the Pacific. An island at distance. The submarine underway. Bow of the submarine. Crew members silhouetted against the sky.
Return to the United States of Marines from 2nd Raider Battalion, known as "Carlson's Raiders" (led by Lieutenant Colonel Evans F. Carlson). They arrive at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, aboard the submarine, USS Argonaut (SS-166) after completing their famous Makin Island raid in August,1942, during World War 2. Inserted view of surfaced submarine, as it fires its deck gun. Distant smoke arises in the sea from a burning ship. Scene shifts back, to Hawaii, again, as the Argonaut arrives at a pier in Pearl Harbor. Admiral Chester Nimitz boards the submarine and shakes hands with Lieutenant Commander John R. Pierce, USN, Commanding Officer of the Argonaut. Major James Roosevelt, USMCR, Executive Officer, Second Raider Battalion (the President's son) salutes Nimitz, who then shakes hands with him. View of stacked arms and equipment of the Marines on the boat's deck. Sailors transport a wounded Marine on a litter. The rest of the marines begin to step from the Argonaut, to the pier, and walk past a military honor guard with rifles, at parade rest.
Aerial view of a U.S. Navy K-5 anti-submarine blimp in flight over a partially submerged submarine moving in the waters of Long Island Sound, during World War 2. Views from the air, of the submarine underway and then submerging to periscope depth
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