Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh with his wife Anne Lindbergh land in Tokyo , Japan. The Lindberghs drive in an open car with U.S. Ambassador to Japan William Cameron Forbes. They are greeted by a huge crowd on the way. U.S. and Japanese flags waved by people in the crowd. Charles Lindbergh and Anne Lindbergh cross a stream in a garden. They are received by Premier Reijiro Wakatsuki and Army and Navy officers of Japan.
United States Marines leave for Eniwetok Atoll from Pearl Harbor during World War II. travel to a dock by truck as they prepare to leave Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Trucks and Jeeps pass by Quonset huts. The Marines prepare for invasion of Eniwetok Atoll. Sailors pull netting away. United States Navy ships are docked on Pearl Harbor. A sailor watches a ship depart for Eniwetok Atoll. Marines crowd a ship deck. Ships and attack transport attack Pearl Harbor. Submarine netting. Marines on deck of transport. Gun crew practice firing with naval machine gun. Machine guns fired. Bullets shoot upwards. Tracers seen near the target. United States Commanders Admirals Harry W. Hill, John T. Walker and Thomas E. Watson deliberate on plans to capture Eniwetok onboard. Boatswain's Mate blowing whistle. Sailors repair rope ladder. Sailors and Marines play boardgames such as checkers onboard. Invasion leaders studying models. Marines receive their K rations. A Marine cleans his rifle. Naval bombardment at Eniwetok Atoll. United States ships firing at Japanese positions on the atoll. A group of aircraft in flight. Shells exploding on atoll. Barges and landing crafts approach the island. Marines and soldiers watch as the landing craft approach the atoll. Marines crouch after landing on the beach. A soldier digging a dugout. An amphibious truck lands at Eniwetok Atoll beach.
U.S. Marines are hunkered down in sand on Eniwetok, as a shell fired by a nearby tank bursts. They then get up and follow the tank forward. Camera focuses on several Landing Vehicles, Tracked (LVT) AKA amphtracks moving across desolate landscape of broken trees and debris. Marine infantry moving across the area past an overturned vehicle and searching for remaining Japanese defenders. Two marines fire their rifles into a heap of debris. Four marines carry a wounded comrade on a litter. Others administer blood plasma to a wounded marine lying on the ground. An M3 Stuart light tank moving slowly with some marine infantry behind it. Slate is interjected reading: "Snipers are blasted from their holes." Marines are seen poking rifles into hiding places and preparing grenades for use. Grenade charges exploding.
Confederate Air Force showing historical aircraft at air show in Harlingen Texas. United States fighter planes of World War II in show. B-17 bomber aircrafts take-off. TBM Avenger in flight. B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber takes off. It is piloted by famous B-29 pilot Paul Tibbets. Skydivers descending. B-17 bomber aircrafts, B-24 bomber planes, B-25 bomber plane in flight. B-29 Superfortress piloted by Paul Tibbets makes simulated drop of Atomic bomb (for which the U.S. Government later issued an apology to Japan, following complaints from the Mayor of Hiroshima and other Japanese representatives). Mushroom cloud seen. B-29 Superfortress in flight.
Confederate Air Force showing historical aircraft at air show (Airsho '76) in Harlingen Texas. United States fighter planes of World War 2 in show. Curtiss P-40 fighter planes in flight. B-29 Superfortress takes off. Texas International DC-9 in foreground. Replicas of Japanese planes Zero fighter, Val dive bombers, Kate torpedo bombers taxiing. SB2C-5 Helldiver taxiing. A jeep and men seen in background.
General Douglas MacArthur gives his speech to Allied Control Council in Tokyo. He praises the new Japanese Constitution. Men sitting in the hall listen to his speech. Several cameramen take photographs. A cameraman sets his camera for recording.
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