Steamer ship travels from San Francisco bound for Honolulu Hawaii. Passengers on crowded dock of San Francisco harbor. Crowd at rails of steam ship. Steamer Great Northern moving away from dock. Passenger steam ship underway in waters of the Pacific Ocean. 'The Hawaiian Island territory of the U.S. consists of a chain of Islands in the North Pacific 700 miles in length'. View of a map. A man leans over rail of ship. Waterfront dock and harbor scene in Honolulu Hawaii. Ship moves into dock. Crowd on dock of Honolulu. Business district shows pedestrians and traffic on street. Automobiles on road. Japanese section of city. Japanese in native dress on streets.
Mix of actual footage and scenes with actors. Professor in laboratory extolling virtues of international research and researchers, in science and medicine. Voice-over with German accent speaks about inferior peoples and the scenes darken. Images of Nazi, Fascist, Japanese leaders and their followers including Fuhrer Adolf Hitler, Pierre Laval, Oswald Moseley, Fritz Kuhn, Japanese Emperor Hirohito, Rudolf Hess (or Heß), Julius Streicher, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler and Benito Mussolini. Footage from World War I era shows rubble from bombing in French cities and towns, and French citizen refugees leaving homes with hand pulled wagon carts. German Kaiser Wilhelm II descends steps and reviews cheering German Army forces in 1914. French poster calls for military mobilization. Mobilized French soldiers march in France as citizens cheer them off to war. Explosions of shells on World War 1 battlefield. French "taxicab army" of French military vehicle line leaving Paris. Battles of Verdun and Chemin des Dames showing French artillery and French soldiers. David Lloyd George confers with Clemenceau. Close ups of General Foch and then of General Joffre. Armament factory in France manufacturing arms in World War 1. British battle scenes at Passchendale and Ypres. Scenes of U.S. battles at Chateau Thierry, the Argonne. U.S. Marines battling at Balleau Wood and Cantigny. Lloyd George greets citizens in England. Close up of British General Haig. American General John J Pershing greets French Generals in World War I. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson is shown. World War II era events: Adolf Hitler addressing a crowd. Brownshirt SA soldiers and other German Army soldiers march and goosestep. Remilitarized Germany invades Poland in 1939, and then France in 1940. Hermann Goering reviews marching troops. Elevated, overhead view of German troops marching with hands raised in Nazi salute, and shadows of their salutes are cast on the ground in front of them as they march. Close up side view of Hitler giving Nazi salute to cheering troops. German artillery and railroad guns fired and tanks advance during invasion of France. French Army soldiers fighting the invading German soldiers; French soldiers fire artillery. French civilian women and children refugees flee in carts as Luftwaffe aircraft fire guns and strafe their path.
United States troops on an island in Okinawa, Pacific Theater. They look through trees in a wooded area and advance. A soldier washes his clothes in water near the shore. He hangs it. He transports water using a Japanese bucket on a stick. A view of the beach. Palm trees on beach. Mountains in the background. A Japanese standard barge under camouflage on the beach. (World War II period).
United States Army and Navy newsroom where combat films are processed. The combat films are made by U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Marines. A man with a roll of negative. A cameraman of U.S. Marines explains how the footage of the Tarawa invasion in the Pacific Theater was taken. Marines aboard the ships. Chaplains carry out a religious ceremony on the ship. Marines read prayer books during the religious ceremony on deck. Some Marines are seen kneeling in prayer. Marines hold a cake with inscription “A Jungle Plus Coconut Tree Equals Jap So Keep Your Eyes Open”. The Marines and the cameraman instructed about the operation. Officer points to a map. Naval guns fired. Heavy smoke and explosions. Invasion barges beached. The troops land on the beach. Some Marines wade on water. Troops fire. The wounded are carried on stretcher and evacuated on Higgins boat. Dead bodies of the Japanese soldiers. A bloated body of a Japanese soldier with arms and legs outstretched. Prisoners on beach. Soldiers clear airstrips. A kitten hides under a tank. Soldier feeds kitten. Naked soldiers washing themselves outside a village. Artillery on the beach. Troops go to see the raising of U.S. flag. (World War II period).
United States 10th Army in Okinawa, Pacific Theater. U.S. tanks advance on hilly terrain in Okinawa. A marine tank blown by a Japanese land mine. U.S. Marines try to rescue the crew on the tank. The ammunition in the tank catches fire. U.S. Marines fail to rescue the crew. Japanese installations destroyed. Fire and smoke rises due to explosions. (World War II period).
Post-war views of damage from USAAF bombing of Yokohama, Japan, during World War 2. Steel skeleton of a burnt out warehouse, at a harbor. Interior of the bomb damaged warehouse. Buildings in the background. Damaged ships and damaged warehouses. Japanese men wheel a load of lumber on a two-wheel cart. A burnt storeroom. A Japanese sign lying in the rubble. Wreckage of a cannery and damaged area of cranes at the docks.
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