Film opens showing a large well equipped gymnasium in a Japanese school. Some boys are holding onto climbing ropes, watching as several boys run toward the camera, jumping over obstacles. Two of them do somersault vaults over theirs. Next, a large group of boys in meager undershorts and bathing caps run down down the steps of their school behind their teacher, who wears a regular bathing suit. Next, the boys run under a battery of showers to enter a swimming pool. One takes a large beach ball with him. Several closeups follow, of boys and girls standing in front of their school building. Film ends showing very closeup views of an individual boy and girl.
United States Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower and British King George VI in Tunisia, Africa during World War II. British and United States officers fix the British and the American flag on the hood of a car. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, King George VI and U.S. Navy Admiral Cunningham get inside the car and drive off. U.S. sentries stand guard along a road. A huge crowd of soldiers on a beach await British King George VI 's arrival. King George speaks to U.S. soldiers.
Wounded soldiers of the United States 5th Marine Division during the Battle of Iwo Jima of World War II. Wounded Marines being evacuated toa beach hospital for treatment. Board reads 'Evacuation Station'. Wounded Marines on stretcher being put on amphibious vehicles to be taken to hospital ships.
United States Landing Craft Utility vessel on shore of Naha, Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Bow gate of the vessel is lowered. M4A3 Sherman tanks come out of the vessel. 6th Tank Battalion of 24th Infantry Division soldiers aboard the tanks. The tanks advance towards the beach. The crew members set temporary bivouacs on beachhead. A wounded Marine carried on a stretcher. A wrecked Japanese ammunition dump. The Marines inspect a Japanese bomb.
United States 6th Tank Battalion of 24th Infantry Division in Naha, Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Marine inspects a camouflaged jeep. United States M4A3 Sherman tank moves on the beach. Marine inspects camouflaged Japanese plane in revetment. Japanese hangar in Naha. Number of tanks drive past on a dirt road.
(Opening slate identifies D+4, and then a corrected slate says D+5.) U.S. marines amphibious landing activities on Iwo Jima during World War 2. Marines silhouetted against bright sky, while standing inside a Landing Ship Tank (LST) as the front ramp is lowered. An M4A3 Sherman medium tank, equipped with raised exhaust and air intakes (a wading tank), is exiting the ship. Scene shifts to views from onshore, of Landing Ships Tank (LSTs) 477 and 808, beached, on the sand. A Landing Craft Tank (LCT-1243) is on the deck of LST 808. Several M4A3 wading tanks of the 3rd Marine Tank Battalion are seen leaving LST 477. Exhaust fumes are visible from their raised ducts. Third Marine Division infantry, on the deck of LST 477, watch the tanks offloading. (Note, regarding the date. Accordng to the Navy Department Library, the 3rd Marine Division joined the Iwo Jima fighting on the fifth day of the battle. So the unloading operations, from LSTs, 477 and 808, seen in this film, could be taking place on D+5.)
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