Opening scene shows Landing Ship Tank USS LST 1006, with her front doors open after delivering her cargo at shore of Okinawa, during World War 2. Resupply operations are seen with landing craft shuttling between transport ships. Landing ships delivering supplies and equipment directly to the shore. An Army truck drives down the ramp of a Landing Ship Tank. A huge crane installed on a vessel behind LST 633 on the Okinawa waterfront. Vehicles driving from ships to the shore from a Landing Ship Dock (LSD). Landing Ship Tanks (LSTs) numbers 606, 30, and 559 are parked at the shore, delivering vehicles to Okinawa. Suddenly Japanese Kamikaze aircraft begin attacking. View from ship in Navy Task Force 58, as its gunners shoot down a Kamikaze that crashes into the sea. View from island of an aircraft carrier, as all the anti-aircraft guns along the side her flight deck fire continuously raising lots of smoke from the gunfire. A Kamikaze plane speeding across the water at low altitude. Closeup of Navy ship gunners firing. View from a ship's deck of sky filled with tracer rounds the strike a Kamikaze airplane. It explodes into flaming pieces that fall into the ocean close to the ship. Navy gunners firing twin Bofors anti aircraft guns. Sky filled with black flak clouds and tracer bullets. A Japanese Kamikaze aircraft (Kawasaki Ki-61) hit and diving straight down into the water where it explodes raising a large cloud of smoke and water. Aircraft carrier gunners firing at a low flying Kamikaze plane that passes the USS Alaska (CB-1) in the foreground and strikes an Essex-class U.S. aircraft carrier. Views of sailors on her flight deck fighting fire. Bow view from nearby ship of heavy smoke billowing from the carrier. Side view of the same. Closeup of sailors cutting holes in her flight deck to allow firefighting hoses to reach fire below. A welder using cutting torch to clear jagged pieces of metal. Firefighters hosing down the deck with foam. A Kamikaze crashes close to another Essex-class carrier, exploding at her waterline. Views of firefighting aboard that ship. Men hauling fire hoses onto the flight deck to bring ocean water up for firefighting. View from above of sailors pouring water below decks. A welder repairing a damaged stanchion. Gunners firing from the ship's superstructure as Japanese aircraft continue to maneuver among ships of Task Force 58. Streams of tracer rounds tracking a Kamikaze plane. View from above of sailors spreading foam over the flight deck. Firefighters playing hoses on pieces of destroyed Douglas Dauntless aircraft on the flight deck. External view of the severe waterline damage to the carrier. Welder working on deck. Landing officer with paddles directing a Douglas Dauntless aircraft landing on a carrier. Sailors carrying an injured flight crew member, across the flight deck on a litter. Dead covered in white shrouds laid out on the ship's deck, for burial at sea.
U.S. Army General Henry H. Arnold visits 314th Bombardment Wing at North Field in Guam, Mariana Islands during World War II. Staff cars and military police escorts arrive at headquarters. A band plays in the foreground. U.S. Army Air Force Major Generals Curtis E. Lemay and Thomas S. Power greet General Henry H. Arnold. Generals and staff officers at attention as the band plays. The Generals leave the headquarters and walk to service apron where General Arnold speaks to 314th Wing personnel.
William Frederick Halsey celebrates Japanese surrender aboard USS Missouri in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Iowa-class battleship USS Missouri underway at sea. U.S. Navy Admiral and Commander of Third Fleet William Frederick Halsey, Jr and other senior U.S. and British Navy officers raise a toast aboard USS Missouri as they receive news of Japanese surrender. They are seated at a table. A special cake decorated with Japanese rising sun is brought. A marine holding a bayonet stands behind the group. After the cake is placed on the table, the marine proffers the bayonet to Admiral Halsey, who uses it to cut the cake and serves it. He eats the cake. Views of Admiral Halsey as he speaks.
A Japanese mercy ship is captured in the South Pacific Ocean during World War II.. A Japanese mercy ship underway at sea. U.S. Navy 7th Fleet officers capture the Japanese mercy ship. Unwounded men come off the ship. Cases of 75mm ammunition are uncovered. Labels 'Medical Supply' on the ammunition. Prisoners are taken in custody.
President of the Provisional Government of the French Republic Charles De Gaulle arrives in Washington DC. An aircraft taxis at the Washington Airport. Charles De Gaulle arrives and is greeted by United States Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes. Motorcars arrive at the White House. Honor guards standing at attention. De Gaulle meets U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
U.S. Navy sailors return to civil life in Long Beach, New York after as soldiers and sailors are discharged at end of World War II. The sailors are among the first groups to be released in Long Beach on a point system. Sailors at a separation center stand in line a pay windows to receive paychecks and then attend group ceremonies to receive honorable discharge papers. Workers leave war production plants at the end of a shift. Civilians line up in cities for new jobs in post-war industries. Clothes iron presses, washing machines, and new 1946 Ford cars on assembly lines being built in peacetime economy.
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