U.S. turns offensive in the Pacific theater and captures Tarawa from Japan during the World War II. The U.S. invasion fleet moves toward Tarawa. Sailors on the ship discuss the strategy. A globe showing the Pacific Ocean. Marines on the fleet ships pray. The U.S. Navy opens fire. Explosions on the surface of water. Marines land and fight after a naval bombardment. More reinforcements arrive. Destroyed Japanese emplacements due to the American offensive. Wrecked Japanese weapons on the island. Korean laborers. American construction battalions repair the damaged airfield.
General Douglas MacArthur is appointed Chief of Staff, with rank of full General, in 1930. United States troops marching with the American flag. General MacArthur with two French military officers, during a tour of Europe. He is decorated by French Officials. MacArthur visits Germany and inspects German troops. U.S. President Roosevelt reappoints MacArthur as Chief of the Staff. MacArthur speaking to an audience in Washington DC. Scenes of MacArthur's headquarters in the Philippines. Filipinos walking outside MacArthur’s office. MacArthur at his office in the Philippines with Eisenhower at his side. MacArthur talks on the telephone. Flags of the United States and the Philippines. Filipino troops marching at Fort Santiago inside the walled city of Intramuros in Manila. MacArthur supervises the creation of a Philippine Army before World War 2. Philippine Army cadets perform outdoor calisthenics and attend a meeting. Philippine Army cadets train in knife fighting together with U.S. soldiers. View of Japanese attack of U.S. Navy ships and airfields at Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Japanese bombardment of the Philippines in December 1941 and into early 1942 as Japanese occupy Philippines during World War II. View of Corregidor Island. U.S. Army and Filipino soldiers on Corregidor load and fire artillery at the Japanese before the fall of Corregidor. U.S. soldiers in the Bataan peninsula. Face of MacArthur superimposed over a montage of American factory workers manufacturing ammunition and military vehicles. Start of the Bataan Death March. PT boat carrying MacArthur leaves Corregidor. War equipment prepared in factories. A battleship underway to Australia. MacArthur in Australia. U.S. convoy moves towards Japanese held islands in the Pacific. Allied soldiers land on the islands. A soldier lands on a beach and raises the American Flag. MacArthur points to the Philippines on a map and discuss war strategy. In accordance with the plan key positions in the Pacific are attacked. MacArthur looks on as United States soldiers land on the islands. MacArthur while smoking a pipe inspects the landing of Allied soldiers on islands behind heavy bombardment. Amphibious tractors land on the beach of Palo, Leyte. Allied paratroops make a landing. United States troops sail on rubber boats towards the beach of Palo, Leyte. Paratroopers on parachutes landing in Leyte. MacArthur confers with Allied Commanders. Allied troops walk past a destroyed Bahay Kubo nipa hut. Japanese soldiers are taken as prisoners in the Philippines.
The Republic of China establishes its wartime capital at Chungking (Chongqing), China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Animated map depicts areas of Japanese occupation and highlights cities including Lanchow (Lanzhou), Chengtu (Chengdu), and Kunming. It highlights Chungking (Chongqing) as the Nationalist Republic of China. Chiang Kai-Shek is seen leading a group of Chinese leaders as they walk through an arched gate in Chungking (Chongqing). A busy street with shops and apartment houses in a commercial district. Busy scene of pedestrians, cart traffic, and automobiles in the road center. Boats on the Yangtze River are seen below long steep steps leading up to the streets above. Houses along the cliffs. Chinese workers digging bomb shelters into the cliffs. View from inside a shelter being hollowed out of the rock. Back in the Japanese occupied area, a car brings a Japanese Air Force leader who addresses a large group of fliers at an airbase. Next, Japanese aviator crews are seen running to their aircraft from their camp on the airfield. They take off in Mitsubishi G3M bombers to attack Chungking (Chongqing). Nakajima Ki-27 airplanes take off from the field and join in large formations overhead. A formation of Chinese World War 1 era aircraft is seen in flight to engage incoming Japanese bombers. Japanese crew member in a bomber sees the Chinese fighters and gunners in the bombers get ready to fire on them. The Chinese fighter planes dive at the bombers but are intercepted by Nakajima Ki-27 airplanes flying cover. Dogfights ensue with Chinese aircraft being shot down, and the bombers continuing their way. Air raid sirens sound in Chungking (Chongqing) and people run to their shelters, including school children. Views of bomber crews at their stations and then of bombs falling with the Yangtze River below. Bombs exploding along the riverfront and inland, along the cliffs. View of machinery operating, and Chinese workers occupied in underground factories in Chungking (Chongqing). Fires burning throughout the city from the bombing, and Chinese fire fighters with hoses working to extinguish fires.
U.S. Admiral Byrd's special navy mission in the South Pacific. View of an airstrip on the Galapagos Islands. A plane taxis and takes off from the airstrip. Jeeps parked on the airfield. Two men stand and talk.
Opening slate reads: "Cairo and Teheran." A view of the world turning, accompanied by voice of President Franklin Roosevelt broadcasting a Christmas messeage to the Armed Forces in 1943, during World War 2. Glimpses of families and people abroad listening to the President on radio. Views of Moscow and the Kremlin in the Soviet Union. British, American, and Soviet flags on a desktop at the Moscow conference in October, 1942. Camera shows Foreign Ministers Vyacheslav Molotov, Anthony Eden and Cordell Hull signing documents and then shaking hands. View of great pyramid of Cheops and the Sphinx. Closeup of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek at the Cairo Conference. Wider view of them with their respective military Commanders standing behind them. A view showing Madam Chian Kai-Shek seated near and conversing with Winston Churchill. Animated map of China. Illustration of a book entitled: "The Tanaka Memorial." Warships firing their guns. U.S. Marines in Landing Vehicles Tracked on amphibious assault of a Pacific island. Marines ashore in combat. More views of U.S. Navy ships bombarding Japanese-held islands and of U.S. forces in amphious assaults. Glimpses of fighting in jungles. A U.S. Navy Consolidated PB4Y-2S Privateer aircraft in flight. Bombs dropping from aircraft. Australian and New Zealand forces firing artillery in jungles. Dutch soldiers in a landing ship. British soldiers in a landing craft. Australian soldiers moving onto an island. At TC:03:38, a flight of three Flying Tiger P-40 airplanes are seen flying in fornation. Geralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek walks among Chinese soldiers. American Flying Tiger pilots walk toward their P-40 airplanes parked in line on a ramp. One taxiis out for takeoff. A B-17 bomber taking off from a foreign airfield. Closeup of General George Marshall with General Douglas MacArthur. Admiral Nimitz conversing with U.S. officers on a captured Japanese Island.
Several Keystone LB-5s (triple tails) and LB-5As (double tails) move across an airfield, circa 1928. Test bombing of captured German battleship, Ostfriesland, in 1921. Smoke arises due to bombing. A formation of four Martin NBS-1 bombers over the former USS Alabama (BB-8), in the Chesapeake Bay, on September 23, 1921. A white phosphorus bomb explodes atop the ship raising a huge white cloud. One of the Martin bombers flies low over the water drops a smoke curtain. (World War II period).
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