U.S. chemical warfare tests on San Jose Island, Panama during World War II. A U.S. soldier wearing impregnated clothing and a gas mask crawls in a jungle. Soldiers apply an ointment on their bodies. They put on double layer of impregnated clothing during mustard gas tests. The results are examined on bodies of Japanese prisoners. A gas is tested on a goat wearing mask fitted with Japanese canisters. Mortars are fired by U.S. troops. U.S. 6th Air Force bombers drop bombs to test gas concentration. A goat equipped with a Japanese canister gets killed by the use of CK gas. U.S. bombers drop bombs near anchored ships to determine the effects on antiaircraft personnel. An unaffected goat equipped with a U.S. Army canister after the use of gas. Dead goats are taken away by men. Dead Chinese soldiers after use of gas munitions by the Japanese Army during the Sino-Japanese War.
U.S. Navy Admirals aboard a cruiser off the coast after the invasion of Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War 2. U.S. Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and Admiral Raymond Spruance with U.S. Fleet. Admiral Ernest King aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) anchored. Ships of U.S. Task Force in the background. Navy Hospital Ship USS Relief (AH-1) lying off-shore.
Final stages of the Battle of Saipan in the Mariana Islands during World War II. U.S. carrier-based airplanes land at and are refueled at a captured airfield renamed as Conroy Airfield. Bombers and fighters take off to bomb Japanese positions on the northern tip of Saipan. Smoke billows up from a Japanese ammunition dump by U.S. bombings. U.S. Marine Commander Carlson confers with an officer. Marines and tanks advance. Mortars are fired at Japanese pillboxes and caves on a hill. Smoke billows up from the hillside. The marines continue advancing. Animated map connects Saipan with Tokyo and the Philippines. The marines after the capture of Saipan.
Assistant Secretary of Commerce Claude Huston visits Saint Paul Island in the Arctic region to study Arctic fisheries and fur seals. Claude Huston and party look down from a bridge. The officials walk over the bridge. Claude Huston walks over a thin pole to cross a water stream. The officials follow him. One of them falls in the water.
Assistant Secretary of Commerce Claude Huston visits the Arctic region to study Arctic fisheries and fur seals. Claude Huston and party at Saint Paul Island. Claude Huston with officials seated on a sledge pulled by a pack of dogs. Some of the officials standing in the background. The dogs pull the sledge on a railway track.
The film 'The Marianas Operation Phase I, Saipan' shows the location of the Mariana Islands through an animated map. Animation shows geographical details of Saipan. It shows its dry and wet seasons. Fringing and barrier reef on the Western Coast. A harbor at a wharf. The map shows the location of a boat yard.
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