Part of the U.S. Army training film describes the role of Light Weapon Infantrymen. Squad members ready to defend their area from enemy attack. Positions constructed and area is well camouflaged. Enemy tanks advancing. Supplementary positions taken and communication trenches dug. Squad leader informs platoon leader of advancing enemy infantry. United States soldiers open fire on enemy. To counter attack, the enemy blows a gap in the tactical wire. Squad reorganizes before another enemy attack
Operation Road's End. Inspection of Japanese submarines,moored in Sasebo Bay, Japan, that are scheduled for destruction, after World War 2. View from a boat passing several of these submarines. One has a group of U.S. Naval officers and others on its deck. View of Japanese submarines I-366 and Number 107. Japanese sailors are decorating the submarines with branches of cherry blossoms. A Japanese officer looking down from boat I-402, as the camera passes below. Closeup of him posing on his boat for the camera.. Captain Atogi Nakamura, Lt. Tashio Tanaka and crew members posing aboard Japanese submarine I-58 (that sank the USS Indianapolis on July 30, 1945 with torpedos fired by Lt. Tanaka).
Dramatized Japanese film depicts Japanese Navy personnel aboard a Type A Ko-hyoteki-class submarine as they advance toward attack on Pearl Harbor. The Japanese Navy officers converse and plan attack. One holds a model of his mother ship affiliated with his midget submarine. Scene changes to below-decks of the Japanese Imperial Navy mother ship for the submarine. An officer stops and looks at his watch. Back on board the midget submarine, the two man crew look at a watch at the same time. They stand and salute their home ship, from afar. Scenes of the crew member operating the control wheel and the officer in charge looking into the periscope. Simulated periscope view shows scene of Pearl Harbor under attack with fire and explosions. Submarine has broadside of a U.S. Navy warship in its sights. Officer gives command to crew member to fire torpedo. Crew member seen pulling a lever.
United States Navy Martin PBM Mariner flies over Japanese submarine during Operation Road's End. Destroyer USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830)seen nearby. Two Admirals and a Captain observing from bridge of the USS Chicago (CA-136). Japanese submarine explodes. View of captured Japanese submarines sinking. U.S. Destroyer, USS Everett F. Larson in the background.
U.S. Destroyer, USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830) near Sasebo,Japan. United States Navy Martin PBM Mariner drops bomb on captured Japanese submarine. The submarine explodes. View of various other Japanese submarines.
Various captured Japanese submarines near Sasebo Japan during Operation Road's End. View of the U.S. Destroyer, USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830). United States Navy Martin PBM Mariner drops bomb on Japanese submarine. Smoke rises from the submarine as it sinks.
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