Animated sequence shows wheel of a Ford car traversing map from Manhattan, New York, to the Niagara Falls on the Canadian border. Extensive views of the falls. A honeymooning couple sitting in a Ford convertible auto with top down. The woman doesn't appreciate Niagara Falls. Guided by their "V8" hood ornament (where the "8" in the "V8" transformed into an animated Ford character, that narrates the activities) they motor across Canada and back into the United States, to the Ford Motor Company Rouge Works in Dearborn, Michigan. Views of the sprawling Ford Motor Company factories at the Rouge Works. Contrasting view of the original Ford shop where he made his first automobile. Mr. Henry Ford steps out of the shop and looks at that first Ford car. He doffs his hat, examines a tire, and walks past the camera while waving his hand. Suddenly a new 1935 Ford car appears where the original first car stood. Narrator comments that a million of these could not be built in the humble first Ford shop. Accordingly, scene shifts to views of the vast Ford Rouge plant. Numerous buildings, bridges,conveyer systems, pipes, and smoke stacks are seen (a cluster of 8 appear in one view). Molten steel being poured into crucibles, as the honeymoon couple watch from their car. Glowing hot ingots slide in troughs into a rolling mill, where they are reduced. Parts being forged by a power hammer. Engine blocks moving on a conveyer. Molten iron being poured into a mold to form an engine block.Coking ovens discharging their product. Ford ships in a port. Iron ore being unloaded from ships.
Japanese battleships and aircraft carriers including Kaga (ahead) and Zuikaku (trailing to port) underway in the Pacific Ocean towards Pearl Harbor. Japanese planes line up on aircraft carrier. Japanese pilots briefed. Japanese pilots run for their planes, board and take off from carrier. Two Nakajima B5N (Kate) Dive bombers taking off, in succession, from aircraft carrier deck. A Mitsubishi A6M "Zero" taking off. A formation, of B5N aircraft , in flight, carrying torpedoes underneath. View from Japanese attacking airplanes as they bomb the Naval Air Station on Ford Island. Heavy black smoke rising from the ground. Next bombers attack the capital ships on Battleship Row. Burning U.S. battleships. Still photographs annotated (in Japanese) point to the various ships targeted, including the USS California, USS Arizona, USS Maryland, USS Utah, and USS West Virginia.
View of the sunken Battleship USS West Virginia (BB-48) and the damaged USS Tennessee (BB-43) on Battleship row, Pearl Harbor, several days after the December 7, 1941 attack. A small dory heads toward them. Change of scene shows the USS California (BB-44) listing to port, with tugboat at starboard. She displays the Navy ensign and her deck is filled with sailors and other workers. View from boat (unseen) circling the sunken USS West Virginia. A destroyed OS2U Kingfisher Floatplane near the stern. The ship sunk, but level in the water. A sunken ship being refloated (World War II period).
Map Shows location of Port Darwin in Australia. A Japanese naval convoy is under attack by U.S. Planes. Heavy splashes and explosions in water. A Japanese sailor aboard a ship looks through his binoculars. Japanese infantry advances through the New Guinea jungle. A bombed hangar. Wrecked planes inside the hangar. Japanese plane takes off from an airport recently captured from the Americans. Japanese troops inside bombers flying at a high altitude above Darwin. Japanese bombers drop bombs on Darwin. Heavy smoke rises from the explosions. (World War II period).
DesRon 2 ASW (anti-submarine warfare) "hunter killer" exercises of the USS Wallace L Lind (DD-703) and USS Charles P Cecil, (DD-835) underway in Guantanamo Bay. SH-3A helicopter hovering above water, dipping sonar. An S-2E aircraft flies by with boom extended. Views of the two destroyers from afar and up close toward their port and stern. The S-2E flies low overhead.
Overlooking helicopter deck at USS Wallace L Lind (DD-703) underway in Guantanamo Bay during DesRon 2 ASW (anti-submarine warfare) exercises. Winch seen in the background. SH-3A helicopter in flight far off port quarter. Curved wake of USS Lind. Part of helicopter deck in the foreground. S-2E aircraft on fly-by with MAD boom extended past USS Lind. It flies towards flare burning on water. SH-3A hovers in the background while dipping sonar. S-2E making approach low over water on fly-by, MAD boom extended.
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