The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) John Edgar Hoover talks about enemy agents and spies in the U.S. at the time of World War II. Two officers sit in an office. German and Japanese suspects in the United States. A German agent on a street. A Japanese spy takes photographs from a bridge. Purported Nazi German agents arriving as tourists in the United States. German and Japanese diplomats greeting one another and exchanging a Nazi salute. The conference room of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Officers discuss the activities of Nazi German secret agents and Imperial Japanese agents operating in South America. Nazi signs on an animated map show the advance of German agents in areas such as Patagonia. Narrator states that Nazi German and Imperial Japanese agents setup radio listening posts in multiple locations in South America to track and report on U.S. shipping in the world's oceans. Animated map shows settlements northward migration through Brazil of "more than 300,000 Japanese colonists". Animation shows expansion of German airline services through South America from Argentina to Colombia.
U.S. aircraft from USS Ticonderogaon attack on Japanese planes parked on airstrips in Manila,Philippines during World War II. Rocket and bombing attack on parked Japanese planes. A large fire burns and explosions. Strafing of camouflaged Japanese planes and shore installations. Rocket run on parked planes. Strafing houses and planes on a paved airstrip. U.S. aircraft strafes installations around the airstrip. Strafing attack on a bomber parked near a tree. Light flak comes back at plane. U.S. aircraft combat with Japanese Zeke (A6M Zero, Japanese Navy aircraft). Large bomb explosions near a Japanese tanker.
Attack on Japanese Destroyer (DD), battleships and cargo vessels by U.S. aircraft in Manila, Philippines during World War II. A Japanese DD under rocket attack. Rocket runs on Japanese cruiser ship and battleship. Strafing attack on anchored Japanese ship and carrier. Large bomb explosions near a Japanese tanker. U.S. aircraft strafes wooden Japanese cargo vessel. Bombing attack on a large tanker. U.S. Navy F6F Hellcat Fighter plane strafes and fires rockets. U.S. Army aircraft SB2C Helldiver in flight fires rockets.
Part of ceremonies marking Japanese surender and victory over Japan at end of World War 2. Japanese forces surrender Marcus Island on board USS Bagley (DD-386) in Pacific Theater. Japanese Rear Admiral M. Matsubara surrenders his garrison to U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Whiting. Japanese and Allied officers sign the papers of surrender. View in September of American flag being raised on Wake Island by U.S. Marines after Japanese surrender. Colonel Walter Baylor accepts honors at the ceremony, having been the last to leave Wake Island, and now the first to return. View of destroyed Grumman F-4 Wildcats that assisted in efforts to hold off Japanese forces for 14 days of attack, earlier in the war.
Japanese troops win the Battle of Corregidor during World War II. Japanese soldiers fire machine guns at American positions in Corregidor, Philippines. Japanese troops advance on foot. Japanese planes in flight. A rail road train pulls up. Soldiers fire guns during jungle warfare. Knee mortars and rifles being fired at Bataan and Japanese soldiers advance further into the island. Japanese soldiers celebrate their victory with a Banzai in the Battle of Corregidor after Americans surrender.
U.S. Navy submarine USS Bluefish underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Open sea and men on the deck of U.S. Navy submarine USS Bluefish. A few men armed with rifles. Three Japanese survivors in water. Sailors on the deck of the submarine lower a line in the sea. Japanese men come aboard the submarine with the help of the line. A sailor on the bridge of the submarine as he looks through binoculars. Japanese prisoners being pulled aboard the USS Bluefish. A ship underway in the far background. Japanese flags painted on a wall with various other Japanese flags as it depicts the record of Japanese ships sunk by it.
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