Film begins with camera panning in closeup of three officers and sailors of submarine crew as they are underway on the surface during World War 2. View from the submarine as it moves close to a dock (ostensibly at Midway Island). Music is being played by a band of sailors. Area in background is covered with white quonset huts. The dock is filled with sailors and a number of naval officers, and another submarine is tied up at the other side of the dock. After docking, the submarine is visited by several officers who greet the officers and crew of the boat. Navy shore patrolmen excort a blindfolded Japanese prisoner of war from the submarine to a waiting truck, as a crowd of sailors watch. Camera focuses on several navy submarine officers who are conversing. Derricks and cranes are in the background.
USS Skate underway in the Pacific Ocean. The submarine underway. A sailor talking to a Japanese. They discuss some documents. Other sailor standing nearby. Sailor and Japanese talk using sign language. Periscope view of a freighter underway.
USS Sea Dog (SS-401) underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War 2. Smoke arising from the explosion of an object in water. An object floating in water. The submarine underway. Officers on the conning tower. A lookout keeps a watch using binoculars. A man using sextant. Crew members on the stern of the submarine. Two sailors discussing on the deck of submarine.
The celebration of the Victory over Japan Day (VJ day) at the Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Fleet type submarine coming into bay. A flag flying atop the submarine. Other warships in the background. Mountains in the background. Men at the conning tower of the submarine. Sailors and officers at the dock. Submarine going out of port.
American airmen engaged in routine work at a base in Germany near the conclusion of World War 2, in Europe. Three airmen mechanics open tailgate door of a mobile shop. They pick out tools from the shop. They work on an improvised washing maching. GIs hang up laundry on a line. An improvised GI laundry. A crewman reads while sitting on a tub. Airman cleans out Commander's staff car. One of the crewman eating K-ration. Crewmen rig up the washing machine. Several airmen smile as they jointly pull on handle of a pipe wrench. Airmen washing a 6x6 Army truck. Water running out of the truck bed.
Remains of the Lockheed XP-38 that crashed at Mitchel Field, New York, the day before, after a cross-continental flight from March Field, California. The airplane was flown by Lieutenant Ben Kelsey, who escaped without injury. But the airplane was totally destroyed.
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