A promotional documentary justifying Japanese involvement in World War II. Equipment and supplies are unloaded from Allied ships at Chinese harbor. Tanks and containers are hoisted. Animated map shows hostile forces encircling Japan.
United States airmen paint pin-up girls on fuselage of bombers. An airman sketches a girl's pin-up. The sheet in then stuck on a fuselage. The airman cuts it into shape. The sketches are named as 'Bale's Baby, Ten-Hi, Snow Job, Crosby Cruise, Lil Robbin, Lady June, Wishful Thinking on the aircraft fuselage. The airmen write their endorsements below the sketches.
Opening scene shows formation of Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-21 bombers in flight over altocumulus clouds. Change of scene shows several Kawasaki Ki-10 Biplane fighter directly overhead. Next, a Japanese Kawasaki Ki-10 engages a Chinese Fiat CR.32, in a dogfight, and shoots it down. The Fiat spirals down. Change of scene shows bombs or shells bursting on the ground followed by a Kawasaki Ki-10 climbing in cloudy sky. A Japanese single-engine high-wing liaison airplane in flight, displaying "28" on both wings. Another high-wing monoplane (this one with radial engine and wheels partly tucked into fuselage) flies past some trees. (Views of munitions exploding on the ground appear occasionally throughout the film between shots of aircraft.) A Kawasaki Ki-10 dropping bombs. Formation of Mitsubishi Ki-2 trimotor bombers in flight. Views of Chinese city with smoke rising from Japanese bombing. A formation of Japanese high wing monoplanes with radial engines and fixed landing gear, in flight, viewed from what might be gondola of an airship. A Formation of Navy Yokosuka B4Y (or Aichi D1A) biwing dive bombers in flight, viewed first, from the side, and then head-on from the tail of another airplane. Men's chorus sings martial songs in background during entire film.
The French naval blockade off the French IndoChina coast.French naval soldiers aboard a French vessel, traverse an antiaircraft gun.French sailor armed with gun stands on guard on deck. Vietnamese sailors dock their wooden boats(junks) to the French vessel.French sailors inspect papers and cargo of the junks.The vessel moves on after the inspection.
Chinese troops start to board the C-47 plane during World War II. U.S. Air Force personnel can be seen at loading point. An officer talks with two of the U.S. Air Force crewmen. The two crewmen enter plane. C-47 plane taxis left to right. Troops march on airstrip.
Point of view shot from rear car of railroad train being pulled by a steam locomotive over the South Manchuria Railway in the Japanese-controlled South Manchuria Railway Zone. View of railroad tracks stretching out over plains and flatlands behind, and smoke from the locomotive drifts behind. The train is stopped at a sign reading Manchuria (in Cyrillic) and in Chinese. The locomotive emits steam. Camera pans to a railroad station building at the side of the railroad. Next is seen, a small Japanese graveyard containing several stone monuments and a number of upright grave markers. The ground is snow-covered. Change of scene shows two groups of high-flying military aircraft in V formations. The next scene is an aerial view from an airplane flying over a river valley surrounded by rugged terrain. Next is seen a column of Japanese Army vehicles moving across snow-covered terrain. An armored car moves ahead of the column. (It is a Secherad-Panzerkraftwagen Sumida, Model 2590, armored car.) A long column, of mostly army trucks, follows. Japanese soldiers, carrying rifles with fixed bayonets,escort a soldier carrying their unit colors, furled and in a case. An informal group of Japanese soldiers, watch from nearby. A long column of Japanese infantry, move across desert terrain. A troop column interspersed with vehicles, continues over rugged desert terrain. A column of military vehicles. Aerial view of Japanese bombers in loose V formation. One circles slowly. An unidentified Japanese twin engine high wing monoplane (possibly amphibian) with open cockpit, drops a torpedo, or bomb. Sudden scene change to a bomb falling and explosions on the ground as bombs strike. Pursuit aircraft maneuvering. Three Japanese Mitsubishi 2MB1 - Type 87 bombers in formation, dropping many bombs. Aerial views of bombs striking, and ground views of explosions.