Events related to World War II. Aerial view of German bomber dropping bombs over enemy installations in France. Explosions on the ground. Wall of building crashes to the ground. German Junker 52s take off an airfield. Japanese cavalry and troops pass in a review.
Model of a U.S. B-17 and views of crew members inside a B-17 are shown in a training film about ditching. The B-17 model shown (with all 4 engines feathered) striking the water during ditching. Scene shifts to B-17 crewman bracing themselves as the plane ostensibly hits the water. having a discussion on the ramp at Eglin airfield in Florida. Aircraft parked in the background.
The joint force assault by the American Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force against the Japanese in Garapan, the capital city of Saipan in the Marianas Islands. American tanks advances. View of the battle. Lieutenant General Holland Smith of the U.S. Marine Corps commands the assault forces. Artillery guns, mortar guns and machines guns are fired at the enemy. A Japanese ammunition depot explodes. The U.S. Thunderbolt aircraft take off from a captured airfield. Japanese command post and other installations bombed. An American plane is downed by the Japanese. American troops take over Garapan after house to house fighting. Troops climb a hill carrying their equipment. Artillery and mortar guns fired. Naval and artillery bombardments destroy the last enemy strongholds in cliffs north of the city. Civilians and enemy troops surrender. Civilians make rice balls. U.S. tanks in action. (World War II period).
A film underlines the importance of tactical exploitation and counteraction of shadows and use of nets, underbrush and other camouflage during World War II. The film shows camouflaged aerodromes which are covered with chicken wire and feathers in jungles of the Solomon Islands. A man opens a window of an Italian hot dog stand which was actually a German pillbox. A German pillbox camouflaged as a farmhouse. A U.S. Army soldier handles mats of a matted house. A soldier looks at windows painted on a pillbox. A German pillbox camouflaged as an entertainment outlet. A dummy building which hides a bridge. A German airfield disguised as a decoy village in Belgium. Buildings in the village. A jeep drives on a road in the village. Men move a sliding wall of a phony building. Helmets and shirts on branches to appear as dummy soldiers. A man near a dummy soldier. Vehicles roll past in France. An artillery piece hidden in thick vegetation. U.S. soldiers watching the film in a theater in the United States.
Aftermath of Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, United States during World War II. A column of smoke rises from a building after Japanese attack on Hawaii. Japanese aircraft in flight. People on streets of Honolulu during and after attack, responding. Smoke rises from a house after the attack. People carry their belongings out of their homes. Red Cross nurses on a lawn. Wounded victims on litters being carried for medical aid. A doctor examines a victim of Japanese air attack. Women read a newspaper account of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Damaged buildings and cars. Wreckage piled up on street. Damaged buildings. Bomb impact marks on exteriors of a building. Children at an orphanage. A woman holds a child. Damaged hangar and aircraft at Hickam airfield. A Japanese two-man mini or midget submarine, type A Ko-hyoteki-class submarine, No.19, on a Oahu beach. Men hold a rubber suit and a blanket worn by Japanese crew of the Japanese mini sub.
America forces begin preparing Saipan as an advance base in the Pacific campaign against Japan in World War 2. Japanese military prisoners as well as civilian women and children are seated on the ground, shaded by a tree on a coastal plain in Saipan. American officers review a map laid out on the hood of a jeep. They converse in a group as they stand near a rudimentary small gauge railroad track in the sand. Sheer cliffs are close behind them and the ocean is nearby. A jeep is seen parked and another moves along a bumpy path. Officers and soldiers stand on and near the small gauge rail line. Several jeeps are parked. Camera pans over sheer cliffs behind. (Some contain openings that housed Japanese fortifications.) Camera pans over wide flat area where the Japanese were building an airfield near Marpi Point on the northern end of the island of Saipan. Construction materials cover the area and several jeeps travel through it. Final scene shows more Japanese civilians in a group where several American soldiers are attending to their needs.
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