U.S. Navy Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii during World War II. A banner on a building reads: 'Ship's Service Store'. WAVES enter the building. They purchase goods from salesgirl. A WAVE typist at work. The WAVE salesgirl at work. Goods on shelves in the background.
Events related to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Japanese crewmen shout. Japanese planes take off from deck of an aircraft carrier. Japanese planes drop bombs on Pearl Harbor. USS Arizona explodes. Ship burns in the harbor. Thick black smoke rises from the burning ships. View of wrecked U.S. aircraft. (World War II period).
Film opens with an explosion at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941. The USS Arizona sinking. Newspaper headline reading "U.S. Declares War." Relief map globe of the world. Narrator speaks about accomplishments of the U.S. Army Service Forces since the Pearl Harbor attack. Glimpse of two M4 DV early Sherman tanks moving on a road. The famous Uncle Sam recruiting poster. Massed U.S. Army troops marching toward the camera lined 16 abreast. Army supply service personnel inspecting providers of all manner of supplies needed to feed, clothe, and equip the U.S. Army. Brief views of supply operations underway involving food and fuels. An Army truck and a P-38 lightning airplane (under wraps) being loaded aboard a ship. A warehouse stacked from floor to ceiling with military supplies. Forklifts moving in the aisles. Group of officers sitting around a table. Some wear shoulder patch of Army Service Forces on their uniforms. The processing of millions of volunteers and draftees for military service. Recruits undergoing physical exams and then arriving in civilian clothes, with their baggage, at a training center. Barracks being constructed at a training camp. Camera pans across a large completed military camp. Soldiers forming up in front of barracks. Sign reads "Dispensary, Recruit Reception Center." Recruits lined up and receiving innoculations against tropical and other diseases according to the regions to which they are being sent. An Army Sergeant assessing recruit qualifications for various military assignments. New recruits eating in a camp dining hall and also in a chow line at an outdoor field mess. Views of industrial workers assembling military equipment in war plants. A coal burning electric generating plant with 8 smoke stacks. A furnace with hot steel visible. An Army agent and an industrialist signing contract documents. Glimpses of women placing items on a conveyer; guns being assembled in an armory; railroad train carrying freight across rugged U.S. territory; ocean-going ships ready for loading; cargo stacked up at ports; numerous 55 gallon drums ready for loading; rope slings of cargo being loaded for shipment; numerous army trucks ready for shipment to Allies, under "Lend Lease;" a nurse checking medical supplies for shipment; Many U.S. Army M3 tanks ready for shipment. Views of British forces engaged in the North African campaign, before the U.S. entry in World War 2. U.S. soldiers marching along a Camp road past a sign reading: "Headquarters, 725th Railway Operating Battalion" (Located in New Orleans). Rapid glimpses of various supplies, equipment, etc. being loaded for shipment abroad. Views of clock hands moving. soldiers shooting automatic weapons (including tracer rounds) at a firing range.
LST destroyed when an explosion occured while loading ammo at the West Loch in Pearl Harbor during World War 2. A partly sunk Landing Ship Tank (LST) burning in the water and water jets are sprayed on it. Other ships and vessels at the harbor. Firemen run with water hoses and spray water on a fiercely burning LST. Officers in a Landing Vehicle Tracked in the water near a burning LST.
Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States. Japanese carriers Kaga and Zuikaku underway at sea. Officers on the deck of a Japanese ship. Japanese sailors push airplanes on the flight deck of a Japanese carrier. A pilot runs down the flight deck to an airplane. Japanese officers being briefed on the flight deck. Japanese pilots run to embark their airplanes. Air 'boas' on the bridge of the Japanese carrier give a 'launch planes' signal. Japanese planes are launched from the carrier. A Japanese torpedo bomber in flight. The airplanes fly in formation and approach Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor burns under Japanese air attack. Bombs explode on Ford Island. (World War II period).
Activities of the United States Navy at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States during World War II. A soldier stands at the main gate of Pearl Harbor Navy Yard. Ferries from Ford Island land at Pearl Harbor. Civilian workers disembark from a ferry.
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