U.S. submarine underway in the Pacific Ocean. U.S. sailors at the conning tower of the submarine. They fire 40 mm gun. Men shooting at mine with machine gun from the deck of the submarine. Smoke from explosion. A junk underway on the horizon. Men aboard the junk. Three natives in a boat underway. The boat comes along side the submarine. Men on the deck of submarine. Fishes on the deck of the submarine. Natives in the junk. (World War II period).
USS Balao underway in the Pacific Ocean. The submarine underway. Bow of the submarine. U.S. Navy F6F Hellcat in flight. U.S. Navy SB2C Helldiver ditching and landing. Men standing on the bow of submarine. Submarine approaching men on life raft from SB2C. Men taken aboard the submarine. They discuss. F6F airplane in flight. Lookout aboard the submarine.
U.S. sailors and officers at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Sailors and officers at the dock. U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Charles Andrews Lockwood saluting the officers stepping aboard the dock. Buildings in the background. Officers discussing amongst themselves.
A U.S. submarine underway in the Pacific Ocean. U.S. Navy PBY Catalina in flight overhead. An officer seated on the bridge aboard the submarine.
At film start, sailors on a surfaced U.S. submarine wave at other sailors sitting on the floating remains of a sunken Japanese destroyer, during World War 2. It is nighttime and the scene is filmed in moonlight. Two sailors on the submarine, silhouetted in moonlight, raise their arms toward the survivors on the remains of the destroyer, who raise their arms to surrender, in response. Next, Japanese survivors are seen on the deck of the submarine, taken aboard the submarine. A U.S. navy officer, smoking a cigar, removes shirt from one prisoner and checks him for contraband. Next, a group of Japanese survivors on the wreck, raise their arms in surrender. View of the submarine deck as it backs away from the floating wreckage. Glimpse of other warships low on the horizon. Camera pans over more floating wreckage. Sailors in conning tower of the submarine. One on deck next to the conning tower waves at the camera. More floating wreckage. One sailor on the submarine deck holds a Thompson submachine gun. Sailors gathered in the conning tower of the submarine and posing for the camera, on deck, in front of it. Glimpse of the officer with his cigar, looking out at floating wreckage in the water. The submarine moves slowly toward a survivor standing on another piece of floating wreckage.
Film begins showing view from a surfaced U.S. submarine, of a three-masted Japanese sailboat at a distance during World War 2. Some smoke is in the air near it. Several tracer rounds are fired from the submarine toward the boat. Rounds are seen falling short. View of the boat when closer to the submarine. Officer and some sailors on the deck of the submarine. The officer holds a hand gun and one sailor holds a Thompson submachine gun. A small power boat sits next to the sailboat, displaying an inordinately large flag. Submarine crew maintains close watch using binoculars. Closeup of sailors on the submarine deck. Next, the sailboat is seen sitting alone at a distance. Glimpse through submarine's periscope of the Japanese sailboat at a distance. View from the camera boat of its crew on deck manning its 5-inch deck gun, with the sailboat a considerable distance away. Gun crew begins firing at the sailboat. Rounds fall short and show water splashes where they hit. Some black smoke is in the air. Sailor loads a clip of shells into the gun. The submarine fires leisurely at the sailboat, with pauses between rounds. View from upper deck of submarine as the gun crew loads and fires. Black smoke rising near the target boat. A round strikes and raises cloud of black smoke.
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