United States Army Air Force P-47 Thunderbolt at Clark Air Base on Luzon Island, Philippines during World War II. A sign on a tower reads 'Clark Field Air Base, Strips NO 1 & 3, Elevation 475'. A P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft lands on Porac strip. Bulldozers and graders at work on the airstrip. The P-47 Thunderbolt in the background. A P-47 Thunderbolt taxis in the background. Tractors and bulldozers on the strip.
United States Army Air Force Consolidated B-32 Dominator aircraft at Clark Air Base on Luzon Island, Philippines during World War II. A Consolidated B-32 Dominator comes in for landing. The B-32 lands in heavy dust clouds. It taxis, turns and comes to rest. Ground crewmen wait. Vehicles driven in the foreground. Nose to tail portion of the B-32 . A pilot and the crew. A field officer greets the pilot. Crew members stand at the side of the B-32 . A sign on the fuselage of the aircraft reads 'The lady is fresh'. Another sign on the fuselage reads 'Hobo Queen II'.
A dramatization depicts a Japanese man's visit to a citizens' public hall on Shodoshima Island in Japan. A view of hills and a valley. An orange tree. Flower beds on mountains. Children ride bicycles on a mountain road. A view of step farms. Aerial view of houses in a village. Children arrive at the citizens' public hall . Interiors of the hall . A tea set on a table. A charcoal brazier in the hall. A painting and a clock on a wall. People play billiards. Men hang a pamphlet on a wall. Men rehearse for a play. A young girl points towards an orchestra. The orchestra plays. Young girls play instruments.
A dramatization depicts a Japanese man's visit to a citizens' public hall on Shodoshima Island in Japan. Women and men play instruments. Women and young girls dance in a circle. A film team leader with a cameraman shoots the dance from a hill. Other people sit in a circle and dance. A sailboat in a water body. A man at the rail of the boat. A light house on a hill top. Boats in an inland sea.
Japanese troops in Corregidor island, Philippines during the Battle of Corregidor in World War II. Japanese fire knee mortars. Japanese snipers fire rifles in the jungle. Artillery being fired as Japanese infantry advance. Group of Japanese soldiers yelling a Banzai battle cry together from atop a mountain. U.S. prisoners standing next to a Japanese soldiers and a jeep beside a bridge.
U.S. Marines boarding troop transport ships in World War 2. A line of the transport ships underway in the Pacific, en route to Tarawa, Gilbert Islands. The Destroyer, USS Frazier (DD-607) seen close to port, astern, with a line extending to the transport ship. A sealed packet of orders for the transport and the Marines is delivered over the line. Scene shifts to an officer briefing marines with help of a large relief map of Betio in the Tarawa atoll. The map is complete, in every detail, down to models of structures there. Marines are seen belting machine gun ammunition and test firing their weapons. Marines on deck exercise doing calisthenics. Officer briefing Coast Guard and Navy coxswains who will be operating landing craft during the amphibious assault. Religious service being conducted on deck by a military Chaplains, on evening of November 19, 1943. Catholic chaplain, Father Francis W. Kelly, Chaplain, U.S.N.R. saying Mass, for marines. (Narrator comments that many of these Marines were killed the next morning.)
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