Animated map shows Italy and Yugoslavia. United States aircraft makes an emergency landing at an airfield. Airmen speak with the pilot. Engineer inspects aircraft wheel. Number of airplanes parked on the ground. Engineers check the aircraft engine. Yugoslavian ships bring food for the Yank Island. Soldiers unload goods from ship. Troops disembark from a B-47 aircraft. Man gives hand signals. (World War II period).
Experimental activities of United States Army Air Force in the Mediterranean. Air Corp personnel look at shell. Airman fires at shell placed on tire for target practicing. Bullet holes on the shell. Airmen hold model of German B-1 Aircraft. Aircraft drops bomb over target. (World War II period).
United States M-24 Light Tank of the U.S. 9th Army fires at a target. Soldiers aboard tank. Narrator describes the M-24 to help distinguish it in appearance from German tanks, during World War 2. The torsion bar suspension of M-24 Light Tank and its 16 inch wide tracks. The 75 mm gun barrel of the tank. Side by side shot of M5A1 and the M-24 replacing it. Comparing ammunition placed on ground. Recognition features of M-24.
Modifications on United States M-4 Medium Tank. Wide boogie wheel track and 76 mm gun barrel. Modified Sherman Tank moves on open ground. The suspension in the boogie wheels gives better maneuverability.
Insular Police Headquarters building in San Juan, Puerto Rico. American flag flies over the building. Vehicles parked in courtyard of a building. Governor Luis Munoz Marin, dressed in tropical suit and tie, examines pile of papers. Woman brings him some more. Later, he is seen, on a bench, in a garden, with tie removed and shirt collar opened, reviewing papers.
Aerial view of Hiroshima in Japan after the atomic bombing. Destroyed buildings and debris all around the area. Japanese civilians walk on streets of Hiroshima with umbrellas. Wrecked buildings and a few isolated structures in the city. Aerial views of the city of Nagasaki in Japan after Atomic bombing. Citizens walk in paths through the rubble. Abandoned fire fighting equipment is seen. Aerial view of Osaka burned by fire bombs, Fleet of destroyed Japanese ships at Kure (Japanese Naval Base). Destroyed buildings and debris in Tokyo. Civilians walk on streets. Emperor's Imperial Palace, untouched by bombing. Japanese citizens bow and pay homage outside the palace. American planes patrol overhead. United States soldiers freed from Ofuna, an infamous Japanese-operated prison camp outside of Tokyo. Camp buildings at Ofuna Prison Camp seen and a group of freed American soldiers celebrates the liberation. A camp Ofuna guard bowing as freed American soldiers exit the camp.
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