Bob Hope and members of his USO troupe ride on a PT boat during visit to entertain U.S. Navy personnel during World War 2. In opening scene, Bob Hope doffs his pith helmet as he strolls past the camera to climb aboard a PT boat (PT-331) of U.S. Navy Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 21, where several naval officers greet him. Members of Hope's USO troupe, Patty Thomas, and Francis Langford, step from jeeps to board the PT boat. Next, the two are seen in the cockpit of the boat next to its captain, Lieutenant Kermit W. Montz, USNR, as the boat speeds along in the water. Among sailors occasionally glimpsed behind them is Radioman 1st Class bill Thielen. In change of scene, Bob Hope climbs out a hatch, holding onto his pith helmet to keep it from blowing off. The boat's number, 331 is clearly displayed on superstructure behind him. Various Navy sailors on deck. (Note: Squadron 21 received a Presidential Unit Citation for outstanding performance during the Huon Peninsula Campaign against Japanese forces from October 1943 to March 1944.)
USS Nautilus underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Conning tower of the submarine. Men rushing to battle stations. They ready guns for firing. In the distance, smoke rises from two Japanese ships that the Nautilus hit in Butaritari’s lagoon. The bombardment was called in by men of the 2nd Raider Battalion during the 2nd Raiders’ famed Makin Raid of August 17-18, 1942.
Survivors of crashed and ditched U.S. planes are rescued on Midway Island after Battle of Midway during World War 2. U.S. Army personnel on Midway Island after securing the same. Damaged buildings and pieces of Japanese planes on island. Gooney birds roam the island. U.S. PBY Catalina flying boat in flight. Crews of crashed U.S. planes leaving PBYs after being rescued. Some are carried on stretchers and placed in an ambulances. Ambulance is driven away (with door still open). A ditched U.S. airplane afloat and a ship nearby. Remains of destroyed hospital.
U.S. Army B-24 wrecked in May 1943 while trying to drop supplies to stranded Rangers of the Attu occupation in Alaska during World War 2. Snow covered mountains. Wreckage of B-24 crash in mountains
Supplements from a film called 'Fighting Lady' about the United States campaign against the Japanese in the Pacific Theater during World War 2. United States Soldiers of the 165th Infantry Regiment drive down a road in a jeep. A Chaplain and Soldiers gathered around a jeep for a religious service. Soldier kneeling in front of the altar at the hood of the jeep. Chaplain conducts a Catholic Mass. Soldiers attend the mass. A Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT) maneuvers in the background. Chaplain administers Communion to the soldiers.
Outtakes from a film called 'Fighting Lady' about the United States campaign against the Japanese in the Pacific Theater during World War 2. U.S. troops of the 27th Infantry Division and a group of natives talk. Soldiers and natives walk in a jungle. A wrecked thatched house as a soldier stands guard in the background. A jeep comes down a road as it pulls a small caliber gun.
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