View from deck of a Japanese battleship looking back at three Japanese aircraft carriers underway. during World War 2. Interior view of compartment in Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku Ship's intercom loudspeaker calls pilots to a mission. Airplanes with engines running on the flight deck of the carrier. The planes ready for take off. Pilot prays at shinto shrine below decks, before mission briefing. Japanese flight commander briefs the pilots before take off. Pilots in cockpits. Nakajima B6n1 torpedo planes take off carrying torpedoes underneath (these B6N aircraft were called "Jill" by the Allies). Japanese Imperial Navy sailors watch the planes.
Montage of scenes from naval battles involving Japanese aircraft attacking U.S. warships in the Pacific, during World War 2 . A Nakajima B6N torpedo bomber flying low over water through heavy antiaircraft fire from U.S. warships. It is struck and begins smoking. Pilot calls out as he dives the airplane into a U.S. aircraft carrier, which explodes. Another Japanese pilot crying out in cockpit of his airplane. Japanese warplanes swarming around U.S. warship. Bombs exploding around and on a U.S. warship. Scenes of intense combat between attacking Japanese airplanes and defending U.S. warships. Flak puffs fill the sky. Tracer bullets seen everywhere. Japanese warplanes zooming over smoking U.S. warship and over a U.S. aircraft carrier. Smoke trailing from Japanese warplane. Smoke pouring from bombed U.S. warship. (Closeups of pilots in cockpits during combat are obvious insertions and not related to the actual battles.)
U.S. aircraft carriers in the Sea of Japan. Launch of carrier-based missions to attack Japanese shipping and airfields in World War II. Aircraft readying on carrier deck including F6F Hellcats, TBF Avenger, and SB2C Helldivers. Scenes of attacks by U.S. aircraft on Japanese targets in Tokyo Bay, seen via gun camera footage. U.S. Navy fighter aircraft returning to land on carrier have accidents. One lands but overshoots and runs off the end of the deck and into the ocean, striking another aircraft on the way. Another fighter aircraft is seen landing on a carrier deck but the supplemental fuel tank beneath it detaches and explodes and the plane erupts into flames. The burned pilot is rushed to safety by crews and firefighting crews battle the blaze. Scenes of dead American sailors and airmen being buried at sea.
Opening scene shows a ship at sea seen through cloud filled sky from an aircraft flying above it. Closer aerial view from below clouds. Change of scene to Japanese sailors in Dress White uniforms gathered on the deck of an aircraft carrier, underway at sea. Four heavy gun barrels swung to port on a Japanese warship at sea. Her high speed creates a heavy bow wave. Japanese Naval Ensign aloft on ship's mast. Naval officers, in Dress whites, on the bridge of a Japanese warship. A Japanese Commander at a table with other officers aboard a warship. Japanese sailors busy on deck cleaning and maintaining the ship. Closeup of a Mitsubishi F1M reconnaissance float plane aboard a Japanese war ship. Closeups of several Japanese Navy pilots in flight gear on deck of a ship. They climb aboard Mitsubishi F1M float planes. One is seen catapulted off the ship. It returns flying overhead toward the camera. View of the Japanese battleship, Ise, underway at sea. View from a Japanese warship, of a Kawanishi H6K flying boat passing low overhead.
A Japanese officer in uniform and three Kamikaze pilots in flight gear walk toward the camera during visit to a Shinto Shrine in Chofu, Japan, during World War 2. Trees in the background. The four men bow in unison.
Air raid shelters in Tokyo, Japan. Japanese children stand outside the shelters. Buildings in the background. Air raid shelters used as houses, and a grouping of tenement homes and shacks used by refugee families soon after the end of World War II in Japan.
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