Life of people in California, United States. An automobile driven in open country. A rocky shore as waves break at the coast. A man examines a mast of a Chinese junk off Santa Catalina Island. Automobile traffic on a city street. Pedestrians on a sidewalk. Cars driven along a mountain road. A man mixes a meal with a wooden pestle in a wooden bowl.
Displays in windows of different stores in New York City, United States. A woman serves fresh oysters at a shop. Sign reads, "Fresh Long Island Oysters". A restaurant with sign "B/G. A meal a minute" and a chef turning chickens on a rotisserie. A pizza maker tosses a large crust into the air as onlookers watch him through the restaurant window. Numerous watches on display in the window of a jewelry shop. A man at work in the shop. At a cobbler shop, a sign on a window reads 'Ripple soles'. Cooks grilling steaks over a grated fire in a restaurant.
A Cold War era film about the low angle flying ability of U.S. Air Force B-58 Hustler aircraft in the United States. A map traces the route to be taken by B-58 aircraft to the Soviet Union. A U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker refuels the B-58 in mid air. A map traces the route of a possible B-58 Hustler aircraft mission to Kiev, Ukraine from England. The route of a B-58 mission from Pacific islands to China. A B-58 Hustler in flight carrying a free fall bomb pod. A crewman aboard an airborne B-58 aircraft. The B-58 aircraft makes a low pass over an airstrip.
Opening scene shows a Boeing B-24 Liberator bomber arriving at an airfield in the Caribbean during World War 2 . U.S. First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt steps from the aircraft, stopping here on one of her many trips. She strolls among U.S. servicemen and others. She is escorted by a General and reviews American Troops on parade at an army base. Scene shifts abruptly to the Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Sydney in New South Wales Sydney Australia, where the Australian Destroyer, Bataan, is being Christened on 15 January 1944 by Jean MacArthur, the wife of General Douglas MacArthur. Dockyard workers drive wedges from beneath the destroyer's hull, to free her for launching. Mrs. MacArthur announces the name, Bataan, and swings a bottle of champaign to christen her. The ship proceeds down the ways. View from below of sailors on deck as she launches.
Japanese installations in the Philippines during World War II. Corregidor island in the background. The coastline of Bataan and mountains in the background. Generals walk on a dock. Two Generals look over harbor and skyward while walking. Wrecked Japanese installations. A fortress on a hill in the background. Wrecked Japanese equipment on the dock.
U.S. Army Chief of Staff George Marshall narrates film and is shown several times speaking seated at a desk. Marshall praises the Pacific Forces. Close up view of several U.S. military officers including General MacArthur (with a bandage over his right ear). Scene of U.S. Marines in combat on a Pacific Island during World War 2. U.S. marines advancing under fire. An enemy soldier is fallen in the distance, followed by a group of Japanese soldiers running for cover. Gun camera footage of a strafing attack by a U.S. aircraft on a Japanese ship, followed by strafing of parked Japanese airplanes at an airfield. Mid air dogfight scene is shown as a U.S. warplane hits and downs a Japanese aircraft. View on deck of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier ship as a Japanese kamikaze aircraft bears down toward the ship, is hit by ship's guns, loses a wing, and, in flames, crashes into the ocean just off the ship. Scenes at Pearl Harbor after the Japanese attack in 1941, as medics care for wounded U.S. sailors in stretchers. Japanese soldiers seizing control in Bataan, with U.S. soldiers holding their hands up in surrender. Also U.S. soldiers in Corregidor standing by as they are addressed by Japanese captors. Scenes of Japanese soldiers in drills and training. Japanese Emperor Hirohito on horse back during a military parade. Scenes of dead Japanese soldiers laying on battle fields after battle. View of industrial smoke stacks of a factory in Japan. Japanese workers producing steel and munitions for war effort. Japanese soldiers cheering at a military rally. George Marshall speaks urging commitment by every American citizen in the war effort. Caricature image of Axis leaders Hitler and Mussolini with "X" marks over them, beside a non-marked image of Japanese General Hideki Tojo. Clip closes with several scenes of American flags being raised on flagpoles of military bases all over the world, as soldiers, sailors, marines, women WACS soldiers, and airmen salute the American flag.
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