World War 2 footage of attack on a Japanese freighter near Palau Island in the Pacific Ocean, by an American Navy submarine. Periscope view shows target Japanese freighter in distance. Disturbance just below surface of water is seen as submarine releases torpedoes toward target. View of target ship just before impact. Then suddenly, a dramatic explosion emits from the ship as it is hit by US Navy submarine's torpedoes. Ship stern momentarily elevates at moment of impact as torpedo strikes mid ship. Explosion consumes ship and it begins to rapidly sink. Two more explosions are seen shooting skyward as the Japanese ship continues sinking.
Attack on Japanese shipping by American submarine around Palau Island in Pacific. Japanese motor sampan underway is fired on by submarine deck gun of USS Barb (SS-220). Japanese sampan burning and smoking during the attack as it tries to get away. View of bow of submarine as seen from elevated position of conning tower. Next scene shows U.S. sailors on American submarine manning battle stations, and readying guns for an attack. Deck gun crew fires, showing muzzle blast and recoil. Crew also operates smaller gun located part way up conning tower area. (World War II period).
U.S. Third Fleet underway at sea, heads for Leyte in October 1944 during World War II. Warships fire heavy guns at Leyte. Ships advance under naval bombardment. Explosions on ship. U.S. troops aboard landing crafts. Japanese troops and defense during the barrage. They take positions and begin to attack. U.S. landing crafts attacked. Dramatic close up views of faces and expressions of many U.S. soldiers as they prepare for the invasion. U.S. troops leave landing craft and wade through water on to beaches. Japanese troops firing at incoming American forces with rifles and machine gun fire. American soldier raises American flag on island. Artillery fired and U.S. Army tanks advance. Wounded U.S. soldiers carried on litters. U.S. Army soldiers staying low and crawling on beach to avoid enemy fire. U.S. Army soldiers advancing, using rifle fire, hand grenades, and flamethrowers to attack entrenched Japanese enemy positions. Dead Japanese soldiers. Smoke arising from explosions in jungle.
Captured Japanese baka suicide bomb (Yokosuka Ohka; Yokosuka MXY-7 ), a rocket-powered, human-guided kamikaze attack-aircraft employed by Japan in World War II. U.S. troops and bomb disposal personnel in Okinawa Island. Bomb disposal personnel disarm explosive head of Japanese baka suicide bomb. Man look into tail and cockpit of baka flying bomb aircraft. Rocket tubes of baka lying in field.
Japanese civilian prisoners are loaded aboard dukw on Okinawa Island. U.S. Army troops lined up. Children and women aboard dukw. Japanese civilians carry loads of wood into a compound in which civilian internees are kept. Group of civilians seated around fire, bundled up for warmth. They drink in turn from canteen cup. They wear life preservers. Nisei Japanese questions civilians. Military Police watch as a Japanese solder is questioned (World War II period).
United States 7th Infantry Division soldiers advance on Okinawa Island. Artillery shells explode on hillside. White smoke arises from exploding shells. (World War II period).
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