A training film about the importance of standing watch duty for U.S. Navy sailors aboard a ship during World War II. Mix of dramatized and period footage. Enactment shows a lookout standing watch aboard a ship as he sights the periscope of an enemy submarine underway at sea. The lookout reports about the submarine to an officer. The officer looks through binoculars and gives out orders. U.S. Navy sailors called to battle stations are seen running under decks to assume positions. Torpedo from submarine detected coming toward ship. Captain gives evasive maneuver order. The Captain looks over the bridge of the ship as the torpedo misses ship. Depth charges being fired from the deck of the ship, and also rolled off the deck into the ocean, directed at the submarine. Explosions occur at sea from the depth charges. The submarine is destroyed. A sailor shows a Japanese and a Nazi German flag painted aboard the ship recording enemy vessels sunk. Next scene is a dramatized scene inside a Japanese submarine showing what would have happened if the crew member on watch was day dreaming and not paying attention. A member of the Japanese submarine crew looks at a ship through the periscope. Point of view shot through Japanese periscope of U.S. Navy ship coming into torpedo firing range. Submarine captain orders torpedoes fired. View of torpedo running in water toward U.S. Navy ship. American sailor aboard the ship executes an order a bit late and the ship gets struck by the Japanese torpedo. Dramatized scenes of Navy crew members abandoning ship and struggling in ocean waters. The sailors in water cry out for help. Dramatization of a dead sailor rising from the sea and speaking about the need to be alert while on standing watch. An inattentive and lazy sailor standing watch in contrast to an alert sailor. A ship underway at sea and sailors sleep in their bunk beds. Dead sailor calls standing watch a sacred duty.
Capabilities of various types of amphibious vehicles and control ships employed in transportation of U.S. troops. LVT 3-C (Landing Vehicle Craft Mark-3) underway at sea. LVTP-5 (Landing Vehicle Tracked Personnel Mark-5) on beachhead. LVT A-5 (Landing Vehicle Tracked Mark-5) on beach, equipped with howitzer. DUKW (six-wheel drive amphibious truck) underway at sea. Various types of control ships include DEC (Control Escort Vessel), PCEC (Patrol Craft Escort Communication ship),
Capabilities of various U.S. ships employed for transportation of troops and vehicles. U.S. Amphibious Force Flagship or AGC (Amphibious Command Ship) underway at sea. View of Joint Operations Center and Joint Communication centers aboard AGC. APA (Attack Transport Personnel) ship underway at sea. Troops move down a cargo net from APA onto a landing craft. Hospital Class APA ship underway at sea. AKA (Attack Cargo Ship) underway at sea. LCMs (Landing Crafts Mechanized) on deck of AKA. AKA at harbor.
Protestant churches in cities near war relocation centers (internment camps) sponsor social activities for Japanese-American soldiers from U.S. Army camps, during World War 2. Japanese-American women at a table, greeting Japanese-American soldiers entering a dance sponsored by a church. Japanese-American soldiers socializing and dancing with young women from a nearby relocation center..
General Henry H. Arnold, Commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces, seated in front of world map, reports that since start of World War 2, the U.S. Air Force has gone from number 7, to number 1, in the world. Defense plant workers are shown walking near their place of work. A college football game shown in progress. Individual young men who left civilian life to became pilots, bombardiers, radio technicians, and gunners, in the Air Forces. A commercial DC-3 aircraft taxing to park at an airport. Shown are people who make the Air Forces possible, including many men and women workers at factories and manufacturing plants making aircraft and parts for the World War 2 effort: Steel workers, a woman working on a plane fuselage, actor James Stewart (in uniform), a welder at work, a typist, a machinist using a caliper, and an older couple at home, who forgoe driving their private car, shown covered in their garage. The flaming wreckage of U.S. aircraft at Hickam Field, on December 7, 1941. Large formation of German Heinkel He-111 bombers in flight. Formation of Japanese Mitsubishi G3M (Nell) bombers. U.S. P-40 pursuit planes taxiing out from parking places. Assembly line in U.S. aircraft manufacturing plant. U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortress planes on assembly lines. Workmen work on engines and aircraft fuselages. At the Douglas plant U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 Marauder bombers being assembled. Workmen inserting machine guns into a wing.
U.S. Army Air Force activities during World War 2. An aviation cadet stands. Group of aviation cadets on flight line at an airfield. Animation of groups going through air and ground training. AT-6 Texan training planes in flight. WASPs (Women Air Force Service Pilots or WASP) board AT-6s. Woman in cockpit of a U.S. Army Air Forcs C-47 Skytrain transport plane. Two women in cockpit of a plane towing a gunnery target. WACs (Women's Army Corps) in a control hangar. Woman fuels an aircraft.
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