Japanese people and Japanese Americans in Honolulu, Hawaii before the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II. Japanese workers. Narrator discusses origins of Japanese workers and various trades and businesses in which they work. A street with houses on either sides and clothes hanging. Japanese people walking on the street. People walk in front of shops. Automobile traffic in the background. Japanese men pour from a container. People in a flower shop. Children outside their houses. Clothes drying on ropes. Japanese children outside a school. The 1941 telephone book in Japanese. A daily newspaper printed on machines. Stacked newspapers. Japanese workers work in a sugarcane field. They load cargo on a cart. Boards of the various Japanese financial institutions. People enter a bank. Women fishing and boats in a river. Japanese people work as shopkeepers. A Japanese doctor. Workers carry cargo on a trolley. A man sits in a dentist clinic. The dentist opens a door. Japanese nurses come out of a building. People on a street. Exterior of a Japanese hotel. Boards read Japanese people in various occupation.
The U.S. Army transport ship, Chateau Thierry, backing into a pier at Honolulu, Hawaii. Native swimmers are seen in the water at the side of the ship. The ship's deck is crowded with U.S. Army personnel in uniform, who watch as the Chateau Thierry docks at Army Transport Pier No. 5. Several other ocean-going vessels are seen in nearby berths. A mountain ridge is seen in background. Army personnel and several civilians crowd the pier to greet the arrivals. Several Army aviators are seen on deck. Sailors on the ship handle anchor chains. After the ship ties up, Army passengers disembark carrying their belongings. In a different setting, a parade ground is filled with American soldiers in formations holding U.S. and unit flags. Several round roofed buildings are seen clustered in a hill overlooking the Army parade field. The U.S. Army units march and pass in review before a large crowd of spectators.
A U.S. C-54 transport aircraft approaching Honolulu to land, with faint rainbow visible behind it. The aircraft lands and taxis in with outboard engines shut down, to the Military Air Transport Terminal on the airfield. An anchor and four stars on field of blue are displayed below the pilot's window. The aircraft parks and sailors quickly form an honor guard as the cabin door opens. Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal, wearing a tropical pith helmet, steps from the airplane and is greeted by Rear Admiral John Towers and other officers. Secretary Forrestal is accompanied by Admiral Towers across the tarmac to a waiting car. He stops briefly to converse with Vice Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, before he and Admiral Towers enter the car.
United States armed sentry at guard post outside military building. Another armed soldier on the roof. Sentry checks soldier entering in a jeep. Numerous school children in an orderly line, entering their school building. Workers using hoes cultivate a pineapple field. Woman placing cloth on barbed wire fence. A formation of U.S. aircraft flying overhead. A building surrounded by barbed wire. Workers loading crates of pineapples onto a truck. Women weaving cloth strips into camouflage netting.Views of mountains and clouds. Hawaiian civilian workers stretching chicken wire over vertical poles. Workers cultivating pineapple plants with hoes. View from vehicle driving toward, and over a bridge guarded by armed sentry. Road signs indicate intersection of U.S. Route 1 and local Route 130. Sign on building reads: "Haleiwa." U.S. Navy sailors walk at Honolulu Harbor past the "Aloha Tower" covered in camouflage paint. (World War II period).
A trip to Honolulu, Hawaii from San Francisco, California. Animated map depicts the location of Hawaii. A cruiser leaves San Francisco for Honolulu. A Hawaiian shore. A Honolulu harbor showing buildings and a crowd on a dock. Palm trees in Honolulu. Japanese people walk along a sidewalk. A Japanese tea store. A Japanese vegetable peddler walks.
History and story of the Seabees. Admiral Moreell, chief of the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Yards and Docks speaks in his office in Washington, DC. A view of the U.S. Capitol building through his window. He gives a brief history of the Seabees and introduces the film. A formation of Japanese warplanes. Views of Honolulu, Hawaii, Midway, Taviti, and Wake Islands.U.S. civilian construction workers. Hickam and Wheeler fields, in Hawaii, being bombed by Japanese airplanes. Pearl Harbor burning. U.S. casualties on stretchers. American soldiers raising the flag with fire and smoke behind them. Seebee recruitment poster. Volunteers going to enlist. Navy Seabee trainees learning military and construction skills. Practicing methods of rapid construction for combat zones. Trainees negotiating obstacle courses. Amphibious assault training. Seabee units parading in dress whites, followed by Seabees in some of their combat vehicles: DUKWs, construction graders, and bulldozers. A newly trained battalion of Seabees leaving training camp on a train. A band plays seeing them off. Seabees loading up at a port of embarkation. A troop ship seen. The troop ship moving away from the wharf, with help from tugboat. (World War II period).
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