General activities on USS Hornet in the Pacific show the preparation for the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo. A bomb comes up on a small elevator U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Doolittle wires a Japanese medal on the bomb for its return to its originators. A medal on the bomb. U.S. Army Air Forces men seated around the bomb. Lt Col. James Harold Doolittle and U.S. Navy Captain Marc A. Mitscher near the bomb. Close up of Marc A. Mitscher. (World War II period).
Dulles and Johnson with James E Webb, Special Assistant to Secretary of State, Major General Parks, Chairman of Information, Department of Army. Dulles and Johnson shaking hands with Webb and General Parks. The two men walking up the ramp of plane. They turn around as Dulles waves his hat. General Parks, Mrs. Earl Johnson and Mrs. Pace waving goodbye.
Barrage balloons fly as anti air craft guns are fired from a destroyer in the Battle of Midway in Pacific Theater during World War II. Tracers fired as antiaircraft guns burst barrage balloons. Japanese plane comes in for attack. 5"guns aboard a destroyer fired. Japanese plane crashes. United States Navy SBD dauntless makes a landing on the flight deck of Yorktown, an aircraft carrier. F4F coming in for landing.
Hugh Herndon Jr. and Clyde Pangborn span the ocean. They wreck the propeller of the ship while landing. Mother of Clyde Pangborn greets him. Citizens of Wenatchee acclaim both the fliers. The fliers greeted by crowds as they pass through a street in an open car with United States flag.
Japanese-designed Western fashion displayed by models in New York City. A model wears a silk blouse with kimono-inspired sleeves. Another model shows off a hat patterned after a rice bowl and a modern one-piece dress. Models wear Japanese-designed dresses inspired by different facets of Japanese culture such as theater and nature. A woman wears a dress inspired by Japanese theater. A woman wears a kimono-inspired Western dress.
Japanese Foreign Minister Shigemitsu Mamoru visits the Department of State in Washington, DC. He enters the State Department Building, walking with a cane, and is greeted. U.S. Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, meets and converses with him. He also meets with other U.S. officials.
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