A World War 2 amphibious beachhead is seen with numerous ships offshore, and a barrage balloon aloft overhead. USS Landing Ship Medium number 553 is pulled up close to a transport ship from which an army truck is being offloaded. Numerous U.S. troops are seen on the transport deck. Another Landing Ship Medium (number 541) is c.lose to a transport ship. A Benham class destroyer is seen. A Coast Guard Captain smokes a cigarette as he looks out a porthole on his ship. A U.S. wartime supply convoy at sea. An officer sounds an alarm aboard a U.S. Combat Coast Guard Cutter. Crew responds and fires depth charges against a German submarine. The submarine surfaces and the Cutter fires at it using a deck gun. View of oil on the water.
The U.S. Army Air Force Troops Carrier Command in Wau, Papua New Guinea during World War II. A soldier at a typing machine. Insignia of the U.S. Army Air Force Troops Carrier Command. Animated map shows Troops Carrier Command advancing towards U.S. air bases in Papua New Guinea and Australia. An open field. Mountains in the background. A U.S. Army Air Force Douglas C-47 Skytrain aircraft lands and taxis.
U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) SI (Secret Intelligence) operations against Axis Powers in the European Theater during World War II. U.S. Army jeeps parked along a road. A U.S. soldier rolls a tire. U.S. SI agents get into a jeep and leave. A jeep arrives at a building in wooded area. Men get off the jeep and enter the building. An agent closes exit doors of the building.
Public service announcement to be shown to American citizens going to move theaters during World War II. U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services, precursor to Central Intelligence Agency or CIA) headed by Colonel William Joseph Donovan asks the public to send in vacation photographs taken abroad. Narrator explains that photos of overseas ports, docks, railroads, and places of strategic importance in cities can be useful for the U.S. war effort (for intelligence and targeting purposes). Women workers remove pictures from mail sacks, view them for useful information, and sort them. Men examine images by magnifying glasses. Closeups of example photos are shown. Colonel L. E. Norris takes a look at photographs at his desk and holds up a card with his name and address. Narrator invites viewers to send photographs to Colonel Norris as a civilian contribution to the war effort and says, "it's one way you can help win the war."
Belgian troops on Kamina airfield in Republic of Congo. U.S. Air Force C-130 aircraft behind them, raising dust with engines running. Belgian officers talk with a U.S. Air Force photographer. A U.S. Air Force Captain at flight planning table with several Belgian officers. Supplies being unloaded from C-130 aircraft. A truck moves away from the plane. Belgian Army scout cars drive across ramp and troops get down. U.S. Air Force Colonel Clayton M.Isaacson stands with an Air Force Captain and a photographer as they watch the C-130 commence its takeoff. The C-130 begins takeoff, raising dust. A Belgian soldier, with machine gun watches. The Aircraft makes long takeoff roll and barely clears trees at end of the airstrip.
Opening scene shows Emperor Hirohito of Japan dressed in military uniform, astride a white horse, riding along a path, followed by military officers. (Narrator cites Japanese declaration of war against the U.S. and Britain on December 7, 1941.) Japanese soldiers in two groups engage in local war games against each other. Animated map shows Japan and the expansion of her influence and military presence throughout the Pacific. Aerial view through scattered clouds, of Japanese fleet of warships. Aerial view of American warplanes in formation through scattered clouds. Closeup from cockpit of a U.S. A-20 Havoc aircraft, showing its left engine and prop and a second A-20 flying to its left in close formation. Swerving wake of a Japanese warship engaged in evasive maneuvers on surface of the sea, below. Several scenes of U.S. aircraft strafing Japanese warships. Aerial view from a U.S. B-25, flying above Japanese ships, of another B-25, with its bomb bay doors open as it launches a torpedo. Japanese ship is struck, explodes, and sinks stern first. Glimpse of more Japanese ships in a convoy.
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