USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl harbor in Hawaii, United States. Chaplain conducts benediction. Officials and dignitaries seated in chairs. Sailor and Marines carrying a large wreath. Large wreath being thrown over side of the memorial and floats on surface of the water. Group of marines on a platform over the Memorial as they fire a military salute. USS Buchanan in the background. Navy band at a beach in the background. USS Buchanan at anchor, Marine Honor Guard on platform. U.S. Admiral Harry Felt speaks with guest aboard the memorial. Flag flies at half mast.
USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, United States. U.S. 14th Naval District band on one of the keys to left of the memorial. Crowd on the beach in the background. Ship's company manning rail during services. Men at quarters on board USS Buchanan. Colors at half mast on memorial. Wreaths being dropped from memorial to water by Navy and Marine personnel. Band on one key, spectators on beach in the background. Marine rifle squad on platform built over the memorial. Sailors in ranks on the deck, looking towards memorial during services. Memorial during dedication with colors at half-mast. People seated aboard the Arizona Memorial.
USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl harbor in Hawaii, U.S. Memorial during dedication. Guests aboard the memorial. Two staff officers salute as they face band on key. Guests stand before their chains on memorial. Officers and guests seated during services. Guests leave their chairs after services. Colors at half mast. Several wreaths hang from railing on Arizona Memorial. Wreaths hang from railings, another wreath floats over top of sunken Arizona. Some sections of Arizona above water. Ford Island ferry moves away from the memorial.
Meeting of a Committee in the United States. Officials seated inside the building. U.S. Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley addressing the officials. He talks about harmonized relationship between the United States and China. He also speaks about the unity of the armies of the United States and China in World War II.
Investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack by Japan during World War II in the United States. Officials of the Joint Congressional Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack gather in the court room. Officials seated at their desks and Major General Walter C. Short, U.S. Army (retired), addresses them about the Pearl Harbor attack by Japan. He states that he appeared for the hearing of Pearl Harbor attack in August 1944. No indication was made by the war department about the attack. No information was furnished by them. If they had furnished the information, some decisions or actions could have been taken. He talked to officials of the war time division, but no conclusions were made.
A prelude to the entry of United States in World War II, from the "Why We Fight" series. U.S. Army band marching along with the troops. The bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japanese during World War II. Night view of air raids in London and anti-aircraft fire amid British building silhouettes. British buildings collapsing and burning during blitz in Battle of Britain. Cavalry and tank battles in Russia against Nazi German forces. Montage of quick shots of German Panzer tank and German Luftwaffe aircraft operations in Western Europe. German troops marching through Paris at Arc de Triomphe. German heavy rail guns firing. Dead bodies of Japanese bombing victims lying on the street in China. German navy ships underway at sea. German army forces advancing in invasion of Czechoslovakia. Very low flying German trimotor bomber aircraft passing overhead over treeline. German invasion of Poland. German heavy artillery guns and railway guns firing. Fighter aircraft plunging toward ground and crashing. German paratroopers being dropped over Holland, Netherlands in invasion of Netherlands. Aerial views of German aircraft passing by Parthenon and ancient Greek monuments in Greece. More heavy rail gun shots. Germans invading Belgium, Albania, Yugoslavia.
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