'Go for Broke' shows the Japanese-American recruits of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team under training at Camp Shelby in Mississippi. Recruits carry rifles while marching. The recruits do jumping jacks and calisthenic exercises under direction from a trainer. A Japanese-American guard stands in front of the sign, 'Headquarters Company 442nd Infantry Combat Team.' Recruits learn to use rifle with fixed bayonets. They practice throwing hand grenades and protect themselves wearing gas masks. Soldiers practice loading and firing a 37mm artillery gun. (World War II period).
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, early in World War 2. U.S. Navy pilots looking serious, being briefed, and then turning to look at Board carrying duty assignment information. Views of palm trees and ocean surf. Navy Chaplain Lieutenant's shoulder board. A navy diver, in rubber diving suit, with grease on his face, reports findings to officers on deck of a vessel damaged by the Japanese attack of December 7th, 1941. He laughs at a remark from one of the officers.
Portions of a damaged film. Excerpted from original shown during the Nuremburg trials and submitted as "Exhibit USA 280." Nuremberg trial transcripts of 13 December, 1945 include the following excerpted descriptions of the footage spoken by U.S. Commander William J. Donovan: "This is a strip of motion pictures taken, we believe, by a member of the S.S., and captured by the United States military forces in an S.S. barracks near Augsburg, Germany...We have not been able to establish beyond doubt in which area these films were made...The film offers undeniable evidence, made by Germans themselves, of almost incredible brutality to Jewish people in the custody of the Nazis, including German military units. It is believed by the prosecution that the scene is the extermination of a ghetto by Gestapo agents, assisted by military units...This film was made on an eight millimetre home camera...The pictures obviously were taken by an amateur photographer...it is burned...This is a silent film....I wish to...direct the Tribunal's attention to certain of the scenes. Scene 2: A naked girl running across the courtyard. Scene 3: An older woman being pushed past the camera, and a man in S.S. uniform standing at the right of the scene. Scene 5: A man with a skull-cap and a woman are manhandled. Scene 14: A half naked woman runs out of the crowd. Scene 15: Another half-naked woman runs through the house. Scene 16: Two men drag an old man out. Scene 18: A man in German military uniform, with his back to the camera, watches. Scene 24: A general shot of the street, showing fallen bodies and naked women running. Scene 32: A shot of the street, showing five fallen bodies. Scene 37: A man with a bleeding head is hit again. Scene 39: A soldier in German military uniform, with a rifle, stands by as a crowd concentrates on a man coming out of the house. Scene 44: A soldier with a rifle, in German military uniform, walks past a woman clinging to a torn blouse. Scene 45: A woman is dragged by her hair across the street.
Dramatized play of court of Old King Neptune aboard ship Saint Clara in Lima, Peru, during the 1938 Pan-American Conference (akin to the U.S. Navy ritual for sailors crossing the equator for the first time). Governor Landon seen with delegates to the Pan-American party at Lima. Court members and King Neptune during the court. Spectators watch the event. Correspondents throw most of the courtiers into water.
A car drives on a sandy beach in Italy. Old women push a cart loaded with vegetables. Crops and plants in an agricultural farm. A group of swans swim in a pond near the farm. Two boys wearing caps talk to each other. A farmer hoes an agricultural field using a stick.
11th German Panzer Division surrenders to the Allied Forces in Neumark, Czechoslovakia during World War II. U.S. 90th Division Brigadier General Herbert Earnest discusses with German Panzer Commander General Wend von Wietersheim pointing towards a map. Nazi and Allied soldiers at the base.
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