U.S. 6th Marines advance toward and into Naha in Okinawa. Marine runs away after planting satchel charge in cave. Satchel charge explodes. Marine carrying Browning Automatic Rifle trots around to front of cave and fires into mouth of cave. Marine puts satchel charge into the mouth of cave. Marines move up ridge with their equipment. Cameraman slate indicates it is "Dog Company" taking the ridge over the Corps' objective. (World War II period).
U.S. 305th Infantry, 77th Division mops up in outskirts of Yuza, Okinawa. Soldiers prepare demolition charges. They throw demolition charges into cave which follows tremendous explosion. M-4 tank moves along pathway into village. Soldiers carrying demolition charges walk through ruins of house. (World War II period).
A crowd parades on the street during a festival in Japan. Civilians in native costumes walk along street. Flag on buildings on side of street. Officials in large conveyance. Parade passes under archway. Dancers with crowd. Crowd passes through gate. To dispel the evil spirits the dragon is awarded a prominent place in the procession. Large dragon on street. Crowd pulls floats. Geisha girls and others dance on street. Civilians watch.
Scenes captured by newsreel cameramen in Tokyo during fire after the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake. Population fleeing flames, attempting to save belongings. Wrecked houses along side of street. Policemen and civilians in street.
In opening scene prior to World War 2, camera pans across a building complex that might be a resort hotel. Scene shifts to hundreds of bathers on shallow water at a beach. Life guards occupy a structure in the shallows. Families with small children fill the shoreline and shallow water. some of the small children use flotation devices. Actual swimmers are seen farther out in deeper water. Closeup of three small children playing with a pot as they sit in a protected area that seems to be surrounded by seaweed or other vegetation. A boy behind them works to build the surrounding wall. Change of scene shows another area of beach with a long pier extending out into the water. The shore is completely hidden by families seated on the beach under huge umbrellas and tents. The next scene is of a downtown commercial district festooned with numerous banners overlooking the street. There are no vehicles evident. The entire area is filled with pedestrians. At another section of the town, the street is more densly crowded with pedestrians.
United States soldiers and new recruits at a camp in the U.S. before outbreak of World War II. New recruits and U.S. Army soldiers in training run obstacle course. Soldiers in their uniforms march through the camp area. Tents in the background. Newly drafted U.S Army soldiers learn to fire weapons on firing range using artificial wooden rifles. U.S. soldiers seen training with wooden replica machine guns and using empty Adelphi beer cans as substitute artillery ammunition for training purposes. Teams of soldiers compete in moving a giant ball. They compete in blindfolded boxing on their knees. Lacking adequate war materiel for training, they make do by pretending that trucks are tanks and labeling them with such signs. They pretend with wooden guns and throw flour sacks instead of grenades. Scenes of the Pearl Harbor raid by the Empire of Japan on December 7, 1941. Views of the USS Arizona being hit and various ships on fire soon after the attack. United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt is seen addressing Congress, where he asks for a declaration of war against Japan.
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