USS Skate (SS-305) at Pearl harbor in the United States during World War II. Officers and sailors at the dock and aboard the submarine. Officers shake hands and discuss amongst themselves. U.S. flag fly atop a flag pole on the submarine in the background. Mail call on the submarine. The mail bags being distributed among the sailors. Japanese prisoners come out of the submarine. Japanese prisoner go over the brow of the submarine to the dock. Stern of the submarine. Band on the dock at the submarine base in Pearl Harbor. Officers on the forepart of the submarine talking about their trip.
USS Sea Owl underway in the Pacific Ocean. Crew at the conning tower of the submarine. Lookouts watching through binoculars. Men wearing battle dress standing on the deck of the ship and discussing amongst themselves. Crew takes down life lines for firing. Ships on horizon. Japanese 350 ton schooner that has been shelled, sinking in water. Damage to the deck. Numerous shells hit the four masted 350 ton ship's deck. Japanese on the wrecked schooner. Men on the deck of the submarine. Men are taken aboard the submarine from the wrecked schooner. (World War II period).
U.S. Sailors decorate conning tower of their submarine on VJ Day in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. an American flag streamer flies from the top of their conning tower and they fasten several small Japanese Naval ensigns to a line from the conning tower. Crew members point to symbols of sunken japanese ships and destroyed targets, painted on conning tower.
U.S. submarines arrive at a dock in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii during World War II. An officer holds a life preserver from a sunken Japanese ship. Japanese prisoners are marched down the dock. Officers and sailors on the conning tower of a submarine. Flags flying at the conning tower representing the ships which were sunk.
A training film on operations of U.S. forces on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands during World War II. A map locates places which are under northern attack forces. Burlesque Island is located. Camouflage Island. Areas captured on the islands. A large concentration of Japanese buildings on Camouflage Island. Radio and radar stations are installed by the Japanese in these areas.
Opening scene shows a battlefield wooden cross marking the grave of Private Robert. Woods. His photograph is shown.The narrator is an American Pastor of a predominantly African American congregation speaking from the pulpit about men who served America during World War 2. He cites U.S. Army bomber pilot, Colin Kelly, whose photograph is also seen. The pastor also mentions Meyer Levine, Kelly's bombardier (unseen) and an African American sailor, named Dory Miller, who shot down Japanese aircraft while defending the battleship West Virginia during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Miller is seen shaking hands with officers on the deck of a Navy ship. Camera focuses on a banner in the church displaying stars for the members of the congregation in the Armed Forces. He leads in a prayer of thanks for "this land which our fathers have helped to build." Camera pans over the congregation. The choir and congregation join in singing "Onward Christian Soldiers." Next, a large formation of African American soldiers marches in a parade. They wear uniforms including M1917 steel helmets, and carry rifles and field packs. Scene updates to African American soldiers marching wearing World War 2 M1 steel helmets. Scene shifts to African American Army Colonel and another officer reviewing marching troops on a snowy field. Next, African American women in the WAC (Women's Army Corps) are seen marching. African American troops are seen, again, parading in World War 1 steel helmets, and then others are seen parading in garrison caps. More views of these various groups parading with a glimpse of mounted cavalry inserted, as well. As the film ends, the background music is the singing of "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho." (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
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