Descriptions of Axis forces and intentions in an American produced propaganda film. Animated map shows Japan. Emperor Hirohito inspects Japanese Troops. Troops bow down in front of the emperor. Group of Japanese women also bow down to the emperor. Masses of German citizens at packed rallies in Germany, crowded with people cheering Nazi leadership. Military demonstrations in Axis countries with military forces in their respective uniforms in each country and masses of decorated flags carried high. Picture of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Emperor Hirohito. Adolf Hitler addressing Reichstag in an animated speech with much gesticulating calling on Germans to follow him and he'll 'make them masters of the world.' Mussonlini speaking to a gathered crowd and rallying support for the fascist cause. Hirohito speaking and Japanese forces answering with "bonzai" shouts. View of Axis government buildings in various cities: The Reichstag in Berlin, the House of Deputies in Rome, and the Diet in Tokyo. Legislatures in each country cheering their leaders as they speak. German ditch digging crew listens to military foreman and shouts heil Hitler. German brown shirts approach a residence and use butt of gun to force entry. Italian Soldiers raising daggers or bayonets up high and also placing their helmets atop bayonets on rifles. Newspaper headline reads 'Hitler executes more Anti-Nazi Leaders'. Dramatized depiction of slaying of socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Italy in 1924 by fascists, and Viscount Saito in Tokyo in February 1936. More headlines of other anti-Axis leaders. Views of large cathedrals from street level. People praying in church - a woman praying the rosary and an elderly man praying. German Doctor Alfred Rosenberg speaking in 1938 and decrying organized religion. Newspaper headlines recount mistreatment, imprisonment, and slaying of religious leaders. German Doctor Goebbels speaks over a microphone. German leader Julius Streicher speaking in 1935.
Photographs of Japanese Naval heroes who lost their lives for the nation. Cherry blossom trees. Yasukuni National Shrine where the Naval heroes lay buried in Tokyo, Japan.
B-25 Mitchell bombers raid on Tokyo, Japan. U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchell on the deck of USS Hornet (CV-8). A bomb comes up on a small elevator. USAAF Lieutenant Colonel James Harold Doolittle and U.S. Navy Captain Marc A. Mitscher stand near the bomb and talk. U.S. Army Air Forces men seated around the bomb. A view of Captain Marc A. Mitscher. Lt. Col. Doolittle wires a Japanese medal on the bomb for its return to the originators. (World War II period).
U.S. Army Air Forces Mitchell B-25 crews prepare for the raid on Tokyo, Japan, under the command of Lt. Colonel James "Jimmy" Doolittle. B-25 Mitchell on the deck of USS Hornet in the Pacific Ocean. USAAF men stand around a plane. B-25 Mitchell taxi and take off from the deck. Insignia of the United States Army Air Forces. A crewman gives a signal. A view of an empty deck. A B-25 taxis on the deck of the USS Hornet (CV-8).
Empennage of a B-25 Mitchell bomber is seen bearing tail number: 40-2268. Camera pans across flight deck of the USS Hornet (CV-8) filled with B-25 Mitchell bombers preparing to depart on a bombing raid over Tokyo Japan, during World War 2. Two pilots stand in front of a bomber, conversing. Crew members pull props through on some aircraft. Many aircrew are seen amongst the aircraft. Scene shifts to view, from upper deck, of engines being started on the B-25s. Copilot seen in one of the cockpits. Camera pans from bow to stern showing flight deck filled with B-25s. The first aircraft (flown by Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle) performs a short-run takeoff, with nose high, easily clearing the deck before reaching it's end. Several others follow, making the same steep takeoffs.
General activities on USS Hornet in the Pacific show the preparation for the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo. A bomb comes up on a small elevator U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Doolittle wires a Japanese medal on the bomb for its return to its originators. A medal on the bomb. U.S. Army Air Forces men seated around the bomb. Lt Col. James Harold Doolittle and U.S. Navy Captain Marc A. Mitscher near the bomb. Close up of Marc A. Mitscher. (World War II period).
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