At film start, sailors on a surfaced U.S. submarine wave at other sailors sitting on the floating remains of a sunken Japanese destroyer, during World War 2. It is nighttime and the scene is filmed in moonlight. Two sailors on the submarine, silhouetted in moonlight, raise their arms toward the survivors on the remains of the destroyer, who raise their arms to surrender, in response. Next, Japanese survivors are seen on the deck of the submarine, taken aboard the submarine. A U.S. navy officer, smoking a cigar, removes shirt from one prisoner and checks him for contraband. Next, a group of Japanese survivors on the wreck, raise their arms in surrender. View of the submarine deck as it backs away from the floating wreckage. Glimpse of other warships low on the horizon. Camera pans over more floating wreckage. Sailors in conning tower of the submarine. One on deck next to the conning tower waves at the camera. More floating wreckage. One sailor on the submarine deck holds a Thompson submachine gun. Sailors gathered in the conning tower of the submarine and posing for the camera, on deck, in front of it. Glimpse of the officer with his cigar, looking out at floating wreckage in the water. The submarine moves slowly toward a survivor standing on another piece of floating wreckage.
Film begins with view of forward deck on a U.S. submarine in calm waters, during World War 2. A Japanese survivor of a sunken warship is seen on a raft of wreckage. The submarine positions itself and lowers lines that the Japanese sailor uses to board the American boat, where he is taken as a prisoner of war. Closeup of a three-masted Japanese boat that begins to raise some sail as it is being observed. The sailboat seen at some distance with empty masts and no sign of anyone on board. View of the deck gun on the deck of the submarine. It fires and causes the sailboat to explode.
Film begins with camera panning in closeup of three officers and sailors of submarine crew as they are underway on the surface during World War 2. View from the submarine as it moves close to a dock (ostensibly at Midway Island). Music is being played by a band of sailors. Area in background is covered with white quonset huts. The dock is filled with sailors and a number of naval officers, and another submarine is tied up at the other side of the dock. After docking, the submarine is visited by several officers who greet the officers and crew of the boat. Navy shore patrolmen excort a blindfolded Japanese prisoner of war from the submarine to a waiting truck, as a crowd of sailors watch. Camera focuses on several navy submarine officers who are conversing. Derricks and cranes are in the background.
U.S. submarines arrive at a dock in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii during World War II. An officer holds a life preserver from a sunken Japanese ship. Japanese prisoners are marched down the dock. Officers and sailors on the conning tower of a submarine. Flags flying at the conning tower representing the ships which were sunk.
Elements of U.S. 11th Armored Division advancing in Germany during final months of World War 2. Momentary glimpse of three German corpsmen walking across a field wearing white aprons with large red crosses on them. The one in the center appears to be injured. American soldiers standing near German prisoners of war, who are seated on grass in meadow beside a road. Several military vehicles parked in grass across the road. Group of American soldiers standing near several jeeps and trucks. Surrendering German soldiers, with hands on their heads, running towards Americans. Smoke rising across the field. 11th Armored Division tanks driving down the road, including M4A3(76)W medium tank and a later version, the M4A3E8. Stationary tanks in field in background. U.S. tanks sit nearby as a building is consumed by fire. U.S. infantrymen running into town, past anti tank barriers. Camera focuses on demolition of anti tank barrier within town under guard of an M4A1 (75) medium tank
United States soldiers in Germany during World War II. Freed prisoners of Buchenwald concentration camp seated on the ground and cooking food over open fires. Numerous German citizens of Weimar forced, under armed guard, to walk through the grounds of Buchenwald Concentration Camp where dead are piled up in a truck in a courtyard and against a wall of a building. A crematorium in the background. Some of the citizens show anguish and horror at the sights.
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