Supplements from a film called 'Fighting Lady' about the United States campaign against the Japanese in the Pacific Theater during World War 2. United States Soldiers of the 165th Infantry Regiment drive down a road in a jeep. A Chaplain and Soldiers gathered around a jeep for a religious service. Soldier kneeling in front of the altar at the hood of the jeep. Chaplain conducts a Catholic Mass. Soldiers attend the mass. A Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT) maneuvers in the background. Chaplain administers Communion to the soldiers.
Outtakes from a film called 'Fighting Lady' about the United States campaign against the Japanese in the Pacific Theater during World War 2. U.S. troops of the 27th Infantry Division and a group of natives talk. Soldiers and natives walk in a jungle. A wrecked thatched house as a soldier stands guard in the background. A jeep comes down a road as it pulls a small caliber gun.
Supplements from a film called 'Fighting Lady' about the United States campaign against the Japanese in the Pacific Theater during World War II. A U.S. Soldier of the 165th Infantry Regiment 27th Infantry Division digs a foxhole Soldiers gathered in a jungle. Some of them loaded onto a jeep as others stand on ground. Soldiers walk down a road as they advance. Two Soldiers inspect a Japanese tank in revetment. Soldiers advance through a jungle. An uprooted palm tree in the foreground.
Outtakes from a film called 'Fighting Lady' about the United States campaign against the Japanese in the Pacific Theater during World War 2. Dead Japanese soldiers in an anti tank trench that also has some water. Soldiers, of the U.S. 27th Infantry Division, carry remains of a Japanese soldier on a stretcher and unload the body into the burial trench. A column of U.S. soldiers walks along a sand path, past destroyed Japanese built structures. Views of destroyed buildings.
Mix of period footage circa 1910, retrospective interviews in 1975, and some still images. European immigration in bad travel conditions to America. View from rail on deck of a ship in heavy seas. An elderly European immigrant recalls his experiences of the journey on ship to America. Ship in Atlantic Ocean. Picture of European immigrants on ship deck. Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Early 1900s period footage of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island and disembarking from ship, then walking with luggage for processing at Ellis Island. Some immigrants peer across New York Harbor at the skyline of New York city. Scene change to 1975 and views of interiors of a no longer used building in Ellis Island. Names of persons carved on walls. A man shares his experience as an immigrant passing through Ellis Island, and then as an immigration inspector reviewing new immigrants as they arrived.
European immigration to America from late 19th Century to early 20th Century. Film begins showing closeup photographs of European immigrants at Ellis Island circa 1910. The segment involves difficulties dealing with various immigrants' languages. A man, who worked at Ellis Island early in the 20th century, recounts confusion about a Bulgarian interpreter's of an immigrant's answers to questions. Next, in 1975, an immigrant who went through Ellis Island in 1910, tells interviewer that in addition to normal questions, he was also asked if he was an anarchist. Closeups of Ellis Island Immigrant inspection officers. The former Ellis Island worker who spoke earlier about language confusion, is seen describing the way foreign Surnames were often misspelled and anglicized by recording officers. More closeup photographs of seemingly happy immigrants that ostensibly had been admitted to America. Views from and of an early type steam locomotive belching dense black smoke as it traverses open prairie land in America.
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