Signing of German-Japanese Economic Pact on 20 January 1943. Foreign Minister of Germany Joachim Von Ribbentrop arrives and shakes hand with Japanese General Hiroshi Oshima. Signatories signing the agreement. They shake hands.
Japanese bombing aircraft bombs China. Smoke rises due to the bombing by the Japanese aircraft. Wounded natives. An injured boy. A woman puts bandage on the leg of the injured. A wounded man is carried on a stretcher.
Glimpses of ship's island, deck crews, antiaircraft guns and F6F aircraft parked with wings folded on the USS Yorktown (CV-10), in the Pacific, during World War 2. A U.S. escort carrier and a destroyer nearby. Flak low on horizon as U.S. ships fire at a attacking Japanese airplane flying only a few feet above the water. Crew of the USS Yorktown stands watching as the attacking airplane turns and crashes at the stern of the Yorktown. Another Japanese attacker flies just over the stern and is hit by Yorktown's gunners, bursting into flames and crashing into the sea, with a huge explosion. An F6F recovers on the flight deck.The United States class light cruiser Cleveland.
Troop transport ships loaded with American Expeditionary Forces troops at dock in Australia during World War 2. Troops wave and cheer. A line of U.S. Army women from the Women's Nurses Corps waves from a ship as it docks. A rescued Japanese pilot talks with U.S. soldiers on the deck of an American vessel. The pilot is offered a cigarette. He smokes the cigarette and talks to American sailors. Army nurses at an American base in Australia. View of a hospital wound dressing station at the base. Patients in waiting room and on beds in the hospital. A surgery is performed inside an operating room. The nurses play with koala bears and kangaroos at a local zoo. American antiaircraft (AA) units on full alert. Troops take positions inside camouflaged gun emplacements and sandbagged bunkers. Antiaircraft and mortar crew take their positions. American fighter planes take off from an airfield. AA gun are fired on Japanese planes.
Life of Japanese-Americans living at relocation centers (internment camps) in the United States during World War II. Officers inspect Japanese- American personnel standing at attention. Cars and trucks pass on a road. Trucks parked in garages in the background. Pumpkin grows in a farm at the relocation center.
Film on skills of Japanese-Americans living in United States. Montage shows Japanese American workers weld a metal rim, operate printing press, forge metal, photographer takes picture of a girl, girl at job interview, artist paints poster, worker operates printing press, men and women work in a office, woman operate loom machine, machine cutting a metal sheet, woman worker makes toys and handicrafts, woman gets her hair done by a hairstylist at a saloon and woman shopping clothes.
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