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.
United State prisoners of war in the Philippines during World War II. Captured U.S. prisoners of war in Corregidor Island during Japanese occupation. Army nurses with the captured prisoners of war. A wounded prisoner of war walking with crutches. Injured prisoners of war smoking cigarettes. The flag of the U.S. crumpled on the ground. Brigadier General Lewis Beebe, Colonel Bowles, General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, and General George F. Moore inside their cells in a prison camp. The flag of the U.S. on the ground and the Japanese flag is hoisted on a flagpole.
A film on the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. A man in the midwest United States walks in sidewalk of a neighborhood street. Narrator discusses the comfort of living in an area where buildings, homes, and farms were not affected by war. Buildings along the sides of the street. People shop in a grocery store and views of produce and vegetables in the store. A sign reads: 'No Butter Today' and narrator mentions shortages as being small inconveniences compared to shortages and starvation in war-torn Europe. Children play in a playground enjoying jungle gym bars and a slide. Boys and girls enjoying swing sets. Exteriors of St. Louis Cathedral church building with its two steeples, in St. Louis, Missouri. A delivery horse-cart of a milk man moves on a quiet neighborhood street. The draft horse has feathered fetlocks. Sign on side of delivery wagon reads, "Insist on Clover Leaf Pasteurized Milk. It's Safe." (Cloverleaf Dairy was in Springfield, Missouri.) A milk man walks towards a house in the midwestern town. View of a hand giving a telegram to a woman. View of a sign with 3 blue stars in window, showing that home has a man serving in war. Narrator describes blue stars having given way to gold stars, meaning killed in war. Photographs of soldiers on the table in a home where they lost a loved one at war.
First part deals with World War II Allied war crimes trials of Japanese defendants in detained in Omori Prisoner of War Camp in Tokyo, Japan. Soldiers unload luggage from the back of a truck in Omori Prisoner of War Camp. Captured Japanese generals bring their luggage to prison camp. Sign reads “XI Corps Stockade #2 Omori P.O.W. Camp”. 8th Army Chief General Clovis E. Byers and Lieutenant Colonel Salvi, Commandant of Omori, talking to each other. Japanese military officials in Omori Prison Camp include Admiral Shigetaro Shimada, Commander Shigemori Kuroda, General Masaharu Homma and Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto. Second part is Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita on trial for war crimes in Manila, Philippines. Few Military soldiers talk to each other at a camp. Few views of Japanese Generals under trials for war crimes. General Yamashita brought for the trial. General Yamashita enters a court in Manila for the trial. An interior view of the trial court. General Russel Burton Reynolds presides the trial session. General Yamashita sits on a chair at his trial. A member of the trial court reads a document. Lawyers give their points during the session. General Yamashita is taken out after the trial session in court.
A war bond rally in Washington DC, United States during World War II. A large crowd gathered in front of the U.S. Treasury building during the war bond rally. Several Hollywood stars at the rally to promote the sale of war bonds. U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. address the gathering during the rally. He thanks the motion picture industry for extending its support to the war bond drive. Celebrities including Greer Garson hand over war bonds to the people. Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr signing autographs for fans. The U.S. flag at the Treasury building.
United States Army Quartermaster Corps supply program in the United States. Workers at small war plants during production of different materials and military uniform parts in World War II. Two officers looking at a sample fur cap. U.S. military personnel with Quartermaster Corps officers seated around a table discuss procurement of materials in association with small war plants. A diagrammatic representation of the increase in the number of purchase transactions and the volume of dollar purchases as a result of the small war plant participation in the Quartermaster Corps supply program for the period of November 1942-43. War produciton workers at the war plants.
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