A reenactment showing radio transmission security in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. A German soldier listens to a radio and types a message. Two German officers look at a wall map. The officers go towards the soldier and take the message from him. They go back to the wall map and discuss over it. (World War II period).
Film opens showing the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, DC. Next are views of the U.S. Navy and Munitions building on Constitution Avenue in Washington, DC (Sign on building reads: "Navy Department.") View of Senior Naval officers in a conference room in the building. Next scene shows a group of military planners discussing a three dimensional model of a Pacific island with landing ships and landing craft near the shore. A group of Army and Navy officers discuss documents as they stand in front of a huge wall map of the world. They walk together and point to the Mediterranean portion of the map. A large sign points toward "Naval Research Lab." Inside a Navy Commander and Lieutenant Commander confer over some maps with two civilians. Next, a room full of draftsmen (including a woman) are seen bent over drawing boards. Two engineers bend over an instrumented cutaway of a ship's hull. Senior military officers sit around a conference table. American and British flags are placed at the end of the room. Closeup of two British officer attendees. Civilian engineers and designers gather around a table. Workers at a shipyard gather on and around a Navy ship that displays a battery of four antiaircraft guns. Men in a foundry preparing to pour molten metal from a ladle into a mold. A milling machine taking a deep cut on the edge of a steel plate. A large engine being moved by an overhead conveyor in a factory. Men fabricating boats in a factory. View, from a moving platform, of men painting a newly manufactured Higgins boat (Landing Craft vehicle personnel, LCVP). A new Landing Ship Tank being launched at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia. USS LSTs 340 and 341 at their launchings in Portsmith.
Film opens with animated map depicting paths of Allied forces invading Italy from Sicily. View from beach as American soldiers run ashore from landing craft. Shells explode nearby. Glimpse of large building with barbed wire strung in front and smoke rising from explosion. Soldier near a jeep under fire. Numerous others obscured by smoke as they wade ashore under fire. M4 Sherman tank being driven ashore from a Landing Ship Tank (LST). A soldier on shoreline signals with flags while standing in front of an LST with its ramp open. LST 375 is seen in background. American soldiers firing a 90 mm M1 anti-aircraft gun set up on the shore. Bomb exploding offshore. View from high above a city of a bomb striking and sinking an oil tanker ship. Another bomb exploding nearby. Dense black smoke billowing from a bombed ship in a harbor. More bombs exploding near ships.View from a ship as a bomb explodes only yards away from her. Smoke issuing from a bombed burning transport ship. A pair of wading M10 tank destroyers move along the beach. Soldiers ride on an M10 tank destroyer through an Italian town. Animated map shows range of Allied advance up Italy from the boot. It then shows a circling movement to strike at Nettuno, Italy. Views of American troops being welcomed in Nettuno. Glimpse of an Landing Ship Tank (LST) driving onto a beach.
The Twenty Fifth Anniversary of the Soviet Navy. Ships underway in the Caspian Sea, during World War 2. The Soviet flag flutters in air. Artillery guns aboard a ship. Sailors watch through binoculars. A ship underway. A Soviet fleet underway.
Film starts showing a Soviet Fidonisy class Destroyer (also known as the Kerch class) underway in the Caspian Sea during World War 2. View of wake from the stern. Glimpse of waves crashing against rock on the shore. View shifts to board room of the ship, where Soviet Naval officers converse as they look at ocean charts. A much decorated officer appears to be the senior in the group. The conclude their meeting and leave the room. Scene changes to a port, where torpedo is being loaded onto a submarine from a utility boat. Glimpse of Captain and some crew aboard the submarine. View of torpedo being loaded through an opening at the boat's water line. Captain observing the operation from atop the conning tower. The submarine (labeled No. 10) is seen backing out of its berth. View shifts to the boat's engine room, where an officer is overseeing operations. View of the submarine moving slowly across calm waters
Soviet sailors moving torpedoes on dollies, across a sandy air strip, where Ilyushin IL-4 torpedo bombers are parked, during World War 2. Several soviet officers converse. Munitions crews are seen loading a torpedo underneath one of the aircraft. The aircrew arrives at the aircraft and two are seen putting on backpack parachutes and helmets, as they board. Several IL-4s taxi out, and are then seen flying in loose formation. Brief view of crew member in cockpit. Inside a bomber, a crew member presses a release button and torpedo drops from the aircraft. View from bomber as it dives down over a small ship that was struck by the torpedo. The ship is burning with smoke rising from it. View of the bombers returning from their mission.water.