The U.S. Congress adapts Japanese Exclusion Act of 1924. Congressmen pose on the steps of a building in Washington DC. A close view of officials standing on the steps. A Japanese official.
A military film report on the advance of members of U.S. Army 5307th Composite Unit nicknamed Merrill's Marauders towards Myitkyina, Burma for its capture during World War II. A U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain transport airplanes drop parachute supplies. U.S. Army General Frank Merrill confers with U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) Detachment 101 trained personnel. Merrill's Marauders advance through a jungle and along an open flat field. Dead bodies of Japanese soldiers lying on the field. Merrill's Marauders fire machine guns and mortars towards enemy positions in the jungle. Dead bodies of Japanese soldiers after being attacked by Merrill's Marauders. A wounded man on a stretcher is given water. Wounded soldiers are evacuated.
Japanese aircraft attack Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, United States during World War II. Times Square marquee announces the attack at Pearl Harbor. Newspaper headlines read: "Japs bomb Hawaii" and "War is declared on U.S. by Japs." Close-up views of radio news commentators and reporters at their microphones as they report the story of the attack to radio listeners. Scenes from Pearl Harbor after the attack as soldiers and civilans help the wounded reach safe places. Children in a nursery school building. Rubbled houses and buildings in the area. Wrecked vehicles, equipment and wrecked ships in the Pearl Harbor area after the attack. A Japanese midget submarine involved in the attack is seen beached. From a May 1963 newsreel recounting the events from years prior.
Japanese troops attack China during World War II. USS Panay underway in the Yangtze River outside of Nanking. The captain of USS Panay, U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander J.J. Hughes, aboard the ship. U.S. officials seated at a desk drinking tea. Japanese dive bombers drop bombs on the ship. Sailors man machine gun aboard the ship. USS Panay with decks awash. Personnel from USS Panay go ashore in a motor sampan. USS Panay sinks in the Yangtze River.
Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States during World War II. A view of Pearl Harbor. A destroyer in the background. Several small craft underway . A motor torpedo boat at Pearl Harbor. An explosion in water. Japanese aircraft fly overhead, as seen from deck of Navy Hospital Ship USS Solace (AH-5). Silhouette of Pearl Harbor and the area. A battleship underway at Pearl Harbor. Smoke rises in the background. Large explosion on the battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) in the background, as a human finger points at the explosion. Black smoke rises from the burning battleship. Flak in the sky overhead. Burning ships at Pearl Harbor.
The United States sailors at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, United States. Sailor sells newspapers announcing Japanese surrender ending World War 2. Newspaper headline says 'Truman receives Japanese surrender'. Sailor buys newspaper and reads the news.
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