Scenes of Amelia Earhart taxiing her Lockheed Vega 5B airplane to the ramp, at Oakland Airport, on January 12, 1935, having left Wheeler Field, Honolulu the day before. This completed her solo flight from Honolulu, Hawaii (the first person to successfully accomplish such a transpacific flight). Crowds her airplane as she taxis in, and parks near a hangar of the U.S. Naval Air Station. Amelia stands in the cockpit of her airplane, holding a bouquet of flowers, as crowds mill about on the ramp beneath. Change of scene shows Amelia standing on a steel platform, of the airport tower, with her husband, George Putnam. Closeups of Amelia.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt holds a press conference, while seated on a couch on a lawn outside a building at Hickam Field Hawaii, during World War II. He is surrounded by members of the press and military officers and photographers. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas, is seen standing next to a sailor photographer. Palm trees and ocean in background. The president, wearing a tropical suit, with bow tie, responds to reporters' questions.
Plantation in Honolulu Hawaii. An oxen pulls a plow with a farmer behind it. Banana plantation in an area. Views of the banana and sugarcane fields. Workers cut and strip the cane using hand tools. They place the canes in a flume. The flume crosses a valley. Flume at crushing mill by water.
The Honpa Hongwanji Hawaii Betsuin Buddhist temple and surrounding hills in Honolulu, Hawaii. Clouds in the sky pass over the hills. A traditional Japanese wooden temple made from wood in the temple grounds.
A film blending dramatized and actual footage about the Pearl Harbor Raid by Japanese bombers during World War II, on December 7, 1941. A formation of Japanese bombers in flight over Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. U.S. soldiers fire machine guns at Japanese aircraft. Guns of navy ships. A Japanese aircraft falls down in flames after being attacked. Bombing of U.S. ships in Pearl Harbor. Gun crews fire guns from the ships. Wounded sailors are evacuated by medics.
A film dramatizes the relay of intelligence to the Japanese consul in Honolulu, Hawaii prior to Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II. Japanese observers listen to the conversations of American soldiers at various places like in a house, at a barber shop, in a taxi and in a club. Shows how American soldiers come in contact with Japanese girls. A Japanese man relays intelligence to a Japanese officer in the Consulate-General of Japan in Honolulu.
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