Opening scene, from World War 2, shows German sailors gathered around two naval officers on a dock. One is in a dark uniform with dark hat. The other is in working uniform and a white hat. He renders traditional hand salute. View from further away shows many sailors and a couple of officers crowded together on a wooden pier, and shifts to reveal sailors lined up formally on the deck of a submarine tied to the pier. A closeup from below shows officers saluting from the bridge of the first submarine. Sailors wave their hats from a pier next to a large docked ship, as the submarine sails away into the harbor. Change of scene shows submarine cruising on the surface passing a camera on another boat (unseen). Views of a destroyer with sun in background obscured by mist. Submarine seen submerging. Closeup of sailor using a signal lamp on a submarine. The submarine and a destroyer signalling each other with lamps. The submarine proceeding partially submerged. Scene changes to closeups of a sailor aboard a destroyer using an optical range finder. Next, sailors roll out hose on the deck of the destroyer. An officer and a sailor connect the hose to a seawater pump on the deck. Extreme closeup of the officer. Sailor on deck looks through binoculars at a submarine on the surface. Gun crew responds to battle station manning 20cm Vierling Flak 38 guns on the destroyer. Officer, with hat on backwards, looks through a gun sight. Multiple views of the gun crews firing twin Flak 38 antiaircraft guns. Two German Junkers Ju 88 bombers, flying low, pass the destroyer. Closeup of German naval officer aboard the destroyer. Two more bombers seen high overhead. Several German submarines seen cruising at high speed on the surface. Glimpse of a sailor using signal lamp. View from a destroyer looking astern at another one behind it, as they cruise at high speed, raising large wakes. New segment shows crew at work inside a submarine. Brief view of Captain looking through periscope. Crew members rapidly turning valve control wheels as boat prepares to dive. Another view of destroyers in formation raising huge wakes.
Roles of U.S. Navy Task Force 58 and British Task Force 57 during the Battle of Okinawa in World War 2. An LCI (Landing Craft-Infantry) passes in front of the heavy cruiser USS Wichita (CA-45) as it fires its heavy guns. Explosions on Okinawa. Glimpse of Battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) in marine camouflage paint. Naval gun barrels firing and shells exploding on Okinawa. The USS LSM(R)-190, a Landing Ship Medium (Rocket) is seen firing barrages of rockets at Okinawa. Closeup of the rocket pods firing. At time 00:18-00:20 the U.S. heavy cruiser USS Minneapolis,CA-36 is seen firing her main battery. Numerous views of shells bursting on the ground. More views of rocket firing landing ships, with more closeups of the rocket pods firing. Change of scene to the south, where the battleship HMS King George V, flagship of Task Force 57, and battleship HMS Howe, are seen bombarding Japanese air installations on Formosa. British Navy Marlett fighter planes (equivalent to U.S. F4Fs) in formation flight. Anti-aircraft gunfire from British aircraft carriers and other warships. Closeup of British multiple Pom Pom gun batteries firing.
William Frederick Halsey celebrates Japanese surrender aboard USS Missouri in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Iowa-class battleship USS Missouri underway at sea. U.S. Navy Admiral and Commander of Third Fleet William Frederick Halsey, Jr and other senior U.S. and British Navy officers raise a toast aboard USS Missouri as they receive news of Japanese surrender. They are seated at a table. A special cake decorated with Japanese rising sun is brought. A marine holding a bayonet stands behind the group. After the cake is placed on the table, the marine proffers the bayonet to Admiral Halsey, who uses it to cut the cake and serves it. He eats the cake. Views of Admiral Halsey as he speaks.
Seven brothers and their father in the U.S. Navy in the United States. A bus halts. A father (US Navy personnel) welcomes and greets his seven sons (all navy men) as they get off from the bus. The brothers and their father seated on a desk. The eighth brother swears to join the U.S. Navy. The brothers with their father pose near a big gun of a cruiser.
Film opens showing a damaged U.S. M48 tank stranded in a ditch at side of road near buildings in Hue, Vietnam. Closeup of the front and tread of the damaged tank. M-48 tanks parked under trees near sandbagged garden fence. U.S. Marine in combat gear silhouetted against window as he fires rifle from inside a building. Several U.S. Army soldiers, of the 1st battalion 44th artillery, load shells into an M42A1 twin 40mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun ("Duster"). Marines on the roof of a building. They prepare to fire a 3.5inch rocket launcher. A rocket is loaded into a tube and the 3.5inch rocket launcher is fired. A marine ties the 3.5inch rocket launcher onto a rope and stands holding it.
Demonstration of survival techniques in tropical rain forests in the Philippines. A man cuts branches of trees. Aerial view of a hut built atop a hill surrounded by heavy foliage. Demonstration of transportation techniques in a swampy area show use of a probe stick to move and moving using a floating device built by light weight wooden sticks tied together. Another floating device can be made by trapping air in clothing tied up by strings. Water hyacinth is filled in parachute canopy or flight suit and is used to move in the swampy area.
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