A training film based on the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Graduates and their families and friends attend the graduation ceremony at the FBI Academy. Law enforcement officers or graduates file in. The graduates await the arrival of dignitaries in an auditorium. An FBI official speaks from a podium. The graduates walk away with their diplomas. A sign reads 'Federal Bureau of Investigation John Edgar Hoover Director'. Buildings at the FBI National Academy. Aerial view of the FBI National Academy.
Film opens with an explosion at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941, during the Japanese attack in World War 2. 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. Huge number of 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. Men in recruitment office being guided by staff. Lines of new recruits undergoing physical exams and then arriving in civilian clothes, with their baggage, at a training center. Barracks being constructed at a training camp or base in the United States. 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 vaccinations 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 picking up tools and 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 or business man signing contract documents. Glimpses of women war production workers placing items on a conveyer; guns being assembled by men 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. Women war production workers in plants. Men in outdoor yards filling long lines of jerry cans. Views of clock hands moving. soldiers shooting automatic weapons (including tracer rounds) at a firing range.
USS Skate (SS-305) at Pearl harbor in the United States during World War II. Officers and sailors at the dock and aboard the submarine. Officers shake hands and discuss amongst themselves. U.S. flag fly atop a flag pole on the submarine in the background. Mail call on the submarine. The mail bags being distributed among the sailors. Japanese prisoners come out of the submarine. Japanese prisoner go over the brow of the submarine to the dock. Stern of the submarine. Band on the dock at the submarine base in Pearl Harbor. Officers on the forepart of the submarine talking about their trip.
Crews of submarines, that just returned to their home base at Pearl Harbor,during World War 2, are seen as they secure their boats and prepare to disembark. One sailor is seen with a beard grown during his deployment. A Navy Lieutenant poses holding a life preserver from a japanese ship. Several Japanese prisoners of war leave the submarines and board an open back truck under guard by armed U.S. Military police. The truck drives away.
Members of the U.S. Marine Corps 2nd Raider Battalion (Carlson's Raiders) on a pier at Pearl Harbor after returning aboard the USS Argonaut, following their famous Makin Raid in World War 2. They climb aboard large open trucks that drive them off the pier and on to the base. They wave as their trucks drive away
USS Silverside returns to the submarine base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Personnel of the submarine aboard the USS Silverside. They talk amongst themselves. Men grouped around a mailman who is passing out the mails. Welcoming committee of the officers aboard the submarine. They are being greeted by ship's officers and other men on the bridge of the submarine. Lieutenant Commander Burlingame wearing an Australian digger hat.
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