Documentary titled 'Challenge to Democracy' depicts relocation of Japanese Americans and people of Japanese ancestry due to perceived security reasons, in United States during World War II. People of Japanese origin moved by railroad train to a relocation house in Arkansas and at Heart Mountains, Wyoming (internment camps). Japanese civilians walk out of the railroad train at a station, carrying their luggage. Houses, barracks and Quonset huts at the relocation center. A military police guard with rifle on duty. A Japanese family enters its compartment and finds fully furnished comfortable house inside. A Japanese worker works on lumber. A small family inside a house. People dine together at a large mess hall. A car moves in the desert to plan a site for relocation center. Workers clear bush, level soil and do plantation using tractors. Farmers produce vegetables and fruits. Tractors plow farmlands. Farmers hoe crops and collect harvest. Harvest loaded in trucks and sent to mess of relocation house. Japanese mechanic repairs truck, lumbers at work. Workers paid for their work done at relocation house at an office. People inside a Community Enterprise Business Store.
Relocation to internment camps of people of Japanese ancestrty, in the United States, due to security reasons, during World War II. School bell of relocation center at Heart Mountain, in Wyoming. Students of Japanese origin change classes. Children in a class study mathematics. A teacher teaches drawing. Students study scientific farming at a high school. Business, workers, mechanics studies by students. Evacuee doctors and nurse operate at an operation theater. Doctors and dentists check people's health. A candidate for community council chief during an election for councilmen. Voters vote during election. Trial of a criminal of relocation houses at a court. Softball Match on the beaches at weekend. An artist draws pictures of relocation homes. Sunday church and men carry benches inside for prayers. Boy scouts raise American Flag. Girl scouts, Red Cross volunteers perform various duties. Boy scouts march with U.S. national flag during a parade. Beauty queen and floats follow the parade. Smokestacks of factories at relocations centers, and evacuees walk by them. Military Police guard with a rifle watches them.
Japanese- American surgeons at an operating theater at a relocation center (internment camp) in the United States during WW2. A dentist and his assistant take care of a patient. A Japanese American woman lab technician examines a specimen using a microscope. New born babies taken care by Japanese-American nurses. Student nurses learn lessons at the hospitals.
United States B-17 bomber aircraft at an air base where AZON bomb is attached to it. An antenna for radio transmitter,compact transmitter and control stick are seen.working on controls. AZON bomb without its tail being attached to the bomber and tail is put after it is shut. Thereafter control stick is moved to check whether the rudders are responding and after this aircraft takes off. Bomb detaches from the aircraft in midair. Bomb drops and strikes an isolated area marked as a big triangle in white. Explosion occurs. (World War II period).
A United States air force pilot handles a stick and rubber pedal inside the aircraft BT-13. He moves the stick forward and then backwards a number of times.
A pilot turns on ignition switch of aircraft BT-13 of United States. Fuel meter indicates the amount of fuel in the tank. Altimeter's needle moves in anti-clockwise direction indicating a drop in altitude.
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