Japanese evacuees with their belongings, sit by the roadside in the United States during World War 2. Japanese children are also seen. People of Japanese descent load their belongings on to military trucks bound for relocation centers.
On December 8, 1941, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, addresses the Congress, calling for a declaration of War against Japan in World War II. He calls December 7, 1941 "a date which will live in infamy." Roosevelt notes the United States was at peace and in conversation with Japan's government and Emperor Hirohito, about maintaining peace in the Pacific. Japanese ambassador and statesmen are seen visiting State Department offices to meet with the U.S. Secretary of State. Photographers take pictures of the visiting Japanese statesmen. President Roosevelt asks Congress to affirm that a state of War exists between the United States and the Japanese Empire.
A repatriation ship carrying 1,025 Japanese taken as prisoners by Russia during the end of World War II arrives at the Port of Maizuru in Japan. Ashes of the dead Japanese being brought down the ship in white bags. Japanese captives held by Russia in Siberian camps disembark from the ship and meet their family and friends.
Views of damage caused in Waikiki residential area caused by Japanese attack. Shows automobiles and houses hit by shrapnel and bullets. Japanese planes can be seen in sky and men carrying wounded on stretcher. Broken, main water line and wrecked buildings are shown. Civilian men and women rushing around during bombing and immediate aftermath. School children and women inside a building. View of Japanese Midget suicide submarine in water. (World War II period).
Shows wreck of Japanese two-man suicide submarine and San Hosea football team acting as civil guards on tour. Views of Lieutenant Philip Rasmeusan who shot down the first Japanese planes during the attack, Lieutenant George Welch and Lieutenant Harry Brown, who accounted for shooting down six of the Japanese planes. (World War II period).
U.S. Navy warships of Task Force 51, Joint Expeditionary Force, commanded by Vice Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, bombard Japanese positions at the start of the campaign against Japanese-held Iwo Jima, during World War 2. Mount Suribachi visible at end of the island. The Eldorado (AGC-11), Vice Admiral Turner's flagship is seen. At time 00:20 to 1:04, the heavy cruiser USS Chester ( CA-27 ) is seen in camouflage Measure 32, design 9d, following another unidentified heavy cruiser, shelling the island of Iwo Jima. Time codes 1:05 to 1:12 show the battleship USS Tennessee (BB-43). In time codes 1:14 through 1:31 the heavy cruiser USS Salt Lake City ( CA-25) and the USS Vicksburg, CL-86, a Cleveland Class light cruiser, in camouflage (measure 33, design 6D), are seen shelling Japanese anti-aircraft gun emplacements around the east side of Motoyama airfield. The battleship, USS Idaho (BB-42) is seen in time codes 1:32 to 1:53. Other, unidentified U.S. warships are also seen bombarding the Island.
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