Invasion plans of the Axis power in the European Theater during World War 2. Film opens, ostensibly, showing Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto speaking at a podium. (There is some question whether this is actually Yamamoto.) The U.S. Capitol and the Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC, with marching Axis troops superimposed as if marching in conquest. Axis troops parade in Berlin, Germany. Animated diagram shows 'divide and rule' ambitions of the Axis powers. Animation showing radio signals emanating from radio towers with propaganda and "LIES". A German speaker delivers a propaganda message from a broadcast studio in Germany. Young women are seen gathering in groups. A woman in Italy receives an award for having many sons. Group of young men and women in Italy walking arm in arm which narrator describes as an effort to boost marriages and encourage having children. Cover of "Der Hammer" magazine in which German Dr. Willband Hentschel writes: "Round up a thousand German girls. Isolate them in a camp. Then let them be joined by a hundred German men. If a hundred such camps were set up, you would have 100,000 thoroughbred children in one stroke." Next scene shows a maternity ward with many (perhaps 30 or more) newborn infants laying on a large surface and being powdered, diapered, and swaddled by a team of German nurses. Narrator states: "Of course the children from this assembly line belong to the State, to be scientifically claimed for conquest."
U.S. Navy's fleet task force under Japanese air attack in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Ship underway at sea, flak in sky during battle. A doctor operates on a wounded sailor or soldier aboard a ship. Task force personnel standing near around the patient. Task force crew handle line on ship. CBs (Large Cruiser) underway during air attack.
Dr. Walter K Frankel testifying during Yamashita trial in Manila, Philippines after World War II. Prosecutors and officers in a court room. Maps on a wall. Dr. Walter K Frankel is called to the stand and cross examined by Captain Manning D Webster, assistant prosecutor. The doctor describes how four families and his own were herded into a house. Furniture was stacked around them, a grenade thrown at them and the furniture ignited with gasoline. Four of the women cried out and were shot in the head by the Japanese soldiers.
First ships at new dock in Manila, Philippines after the liberation of the city from Japanese forces during World War II. Power shovel cleans up debris near docks and loads it into dump trucks. View of dock area and fuel drums. A crane hoists the drums and load on to truck. Filipino laborers load drums onto trucks.
Japanese enemy bombs hit the USS Franklin (CV-13), aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean. Explosions aboard USS Franklin. USS Hickox rescues personnel. Litter case is transferred from the carrier to USS Hickox (DD-673). Other U.S. Navy sailors jump from fantail of carrier to a waiting ship. Two sailors land in water and are rescued. (World War II period).
A friend or relative of a Lieutenant in the U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat Team (comprising American soldiers of Japanese ancestry) receives a Third Army patch from a young woman (friend or relative) following completion of his unit's basic training at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, during World War 2. Both the officer and the woman, laugh, as she sews the patch in place with needle and thread. When she finishes, he kisses her on the cheek. Then they shake hands. Another woman comes by to congratulate him followed by one of the Camp's training officers.
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