Scene opens showing American troops assenbled in a clearing on Saipan for a formal flag raising ceremony, following the defeat of Japanese forces defending the island in World War 2. Camera pans over the assembled officers and troops. All salute as the flag is raised by military police. View of the American flag atop the flag pole. After the ceremony, Some of the senior American officers present stand about conversing. Admiral Raymond Spruance, Commander of the U.S. 5th Fleet, is seen wearing a pith helmet. Close to him is Lieutenant General Holland M. Smith, Commander, V Amphibious Corps. Also seen, in fatigues, is Major General Sanderford Jarman, Commanding General, U.S. Army 27th Infantry Division. The remainder of the film shows them and other senior officers mingling and conversing with one another.
Camera follows American troops as they comb through hiding places at the end of the battle for Saipan in World War 2. Small children hiding among some boulders. Next a Japanese woman and four small children are seen seated on the ground. A U.S. soldier bandages the arm of one child. A group of American soldiers searches for Japanese soldiers near a cave. Two soldiers seen firing at a suspected Japanese enemy position. Next, they search the underbrush and retrieve a box of canned goods next to the body of a dead Japanese soldier. A dead Japanese soldier floating in a stream. U.S. infantrymen continuing their search for Japanese holdouts. One retrieves an abandoned Japanese rifle. Another holds a Japanese grenade. One GI displays a Japanese long Arisaka Type 38 rifle with a Type 30 bayonet. (The rifle is 4 feet, 2 inches long and the bayonet 20 inches, making it almost 5-feet in overall length.) Camera pans across misty landscape near the shore, with so-called "suicide cliff" in background. A woman and small girl sitting beneath a rough shelter.
A native Chamorro man walking slowly along a path on Saipan after the American defeat of Japanese forces there in World War 2 Small boats maneuvering near the shore. Several American soldiers search a Japanese youth in uniform. A number of Japanese women and children being assembled and tended to by U.S. infantrymen, who pour them water from a large can. Japanese prisoners and civilians fill an open truck, to overflowing, as an American military photographer takes pictures.
Glimpse of Amercan Navy Seabees, in a boat backing away from a dock at waterfront, in Saipan, after defeat of Japanese on the island during World War 2. A mobile derrick stands behind the boat. The area contains damaged and destroyed facilities.
Camera pans past body of fallen Japanese soldier to U.S. Marines spread out along a shoreline as landing craft maneuver nearby and an American aircraft flies low overhead. Japanese prisoners along with women and children walk in a line. Glimpse of body of a dead Japanese soldier. Another group of Japanese prisoners and civilians. Several stand near American soldiers looking out at the small craft maneuvering offshore. A man (interpreter) speaks into a microphone, giving instructions to the Japanese persons on the shore. Body of dead Japanese woman. Bodies of numerous dead Japanese soldiers along the shore. Japanese prisoners with shovels begin recovering the bodies, placing them on makeshift litters and carrying them away.
United States soldiers in Saipan during World War II. Map of Pacific Ocean with China, Japan, Saipan. Island of Saipan. Living conditions of the soldiers. Pup tents, dugouts in the area. Runway with ocean in the background. Piles of equipment stacked up. Soldiers lift a crate on to a truck. Man pushes gas drum along rails. Jeep pulls two barrels in a trailer. Piled equipment and tents in the background. Soldiers ride a horse-drawn cart. Row of tents. Soldiers walk along the area. Tents in the foreground.
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