Railing and sign at Kilauea National Park, Hawaii, reads: "Kilauea Iki, 770 feet deep, Active in 1868." Camera pans down into the crater and across the rim. Scene shifts to U.S. Secretary of War, Dwight F. Davis, and Hawaii Territorial Governor, Wallace R. Farrington, standing with two military officers, at the edge of the crater.
(Before the attack on Pearl Harbor in World War 2). United States Army soldiers arriving in Hawaii. A truck convoy on a road. The soldiers aboard the trucks. Supplies and equipment loaded on the trucks. The soldiers arrive at U.S. Army camps. Soldiers running in a line in the camp. Soldiers include some who appear to be of Japanese-American descent or Hawaiian descent. They carry their luggage on shoulders and stand outside the tents. Closeup view of U.S. Army Lieutenant General Walter Short on a street in front of a staff car, confers with a civilian. (This is before General Short's reduction in rank to Major General which followed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. General Short had been responsible for the defense of U.S. military institutions in Hawaii at the time of the attack.)
Ships enter Honolulu, Hawaii during World War II. Camera pans to show a street in downtown Honolulu, Hawaii. Buildings along the sides of the street in Honolulu. Traffic passing on the street. Pedestrians walking in sidewalk. Ships approach the harbor area. A merchant ship enters the harbor. Chief petty officer (CPO) stands next to a 50-caliber machine gun in the building.
USS Franklin (CV-13) arrives at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Ships underway at sea, an American aircraft flies in the foreground. USS Franklin (CV-13), aircraft carrier, arrives at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Men unloading from the carrier.
A trip to Hawaii, United States. Passengers seated in a train that passes through a tunnel and over a high bridge along what would end up as part of the Hawaii Consolidated RR out of Hilo. (This line appears to be the one that ran along the northern shore of the "Big Island" to the west from Hilo.) Carabaos pull a plow in muddy water. A banana plantation.
Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii. Animated map depicts the location of Kilauea volcano in Hawaii. The crater of Kilauea filled with molten lava. Roads being made on cooled lava. Men jump over lava crack. Vapors rise from lava. A lake of molten rock. Men standing at the edge of lava. The molten lava is constantly boiling, Molten rock glow at night. View of Kilauea volcano.
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