Japanese propaganda film during World War II, aimed at American audiences. Japanese narrator speaking in accented English. Air attacks over Hawaii: Name of Countries shown over map. Map shows Hawaii as a target. Japanese fleet at sea on the way to Hawaii. Japanese ship commanding officers confer. Japanese pilots ready on flight decks receiving final instructions and then boarding Japanese aircraft including Aichi D3A "Val" dive bombers and Nakajima B5N "Kate" torpedo bombers. Bombers take off from flight decks. Japanese planes in flight over host Japanese carriers, on the way to bomb American targets. Bombers attacking Luke Field and targets on Ford Island in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Views of Pearl Harbor attacks from the air, in cameras mounted on Japanese aircraft. On screen text: "US pacific fleet annihilated". Pearl Harbor is bombed. Explosions over targets. Smoke rises from targets. Narrator tallies American losses of battleship, airplanes, hangars, and human casualties. Japanese ships at sea. Narrator boasts that the retreat of America and Britain from East Asia is imminent.
Japanese personnel and AP walk. Crowd of people observe the Air Show. C-119 on display. Personnel observe the Air show. Personnel are not allowed near airplane. Three Japanese children eat with chopsticks. Japanese personnel mill through area,eating.
Transportation of V-Discs by the United States Air Transport command, Army Air Forces at LaGuardia Field, Long Island, New York. Crew members load cartons of V-discs on transport plane, ground crewman notes. Elevator rises to plane with cartons of V-discs. Crewman stands on door of the plane, he carries the carton. 'Destination Australia', 'PSX02' and 'V- disc' written on the carton. Crew loads carton onto plane. V-disc record.
25 ton, single unit, air dropping by United States Air Force in California. A four engine cargo transport plane. Package of 25 tons attached to four parachutes dropped on airbase. Dust raised. A man with the obtained package.
Footage during the Second Italian-Ethiopian war (also Second Italo-Abyssinian War). Ethiopian Air Force officers, in uniform, wearing flyer's wings, discuss a map of the area. Close view of famous African American pilot John C. Robinson, also known as the "Brown Condor" and regarded years later as the father of the Tuskegee Airmen. Robinson, a native of Mississippi, commanded the Ethiopian Air Force after volunteering his services to Haile Selassie. Robinson is seen speaking with Ethiopian pilots. Military vehicle in the background. The fliers converse among themselves.
Two Ethiopian Air Force officers converse in a hangar where several high wing monoplanes are parked with parts of them covered. Camera comes closer to one of the officers near the covered tail of an airplane, who watches several men working on an airplane. He then turns and walks toward the camera. He appears to be John C. Robinson (also called "The Brown Condor"), a native of Mississippi who volunteered to command the Ethiopian Air Force during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War. He wears the uniform of a Colonel. Film concludes with closeup of a young Ethiopian officer (unidentified).
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