American civilians realize their war obligations and contribute to the war effort (WW2)

A World War II-era film shows Americans realize their war time obligations after the attack on Pearl Harbor and Fall of Corregidor in the Philippines. Crowds watch a marching band and newly enlisted soldiers in parade. A smiling woman waves at the marching soldiers. Women in car watch the parade. Tents in camp. Soldiers perform mass calisthenics and train with outdated tanks. Enlisted men learn how to fire machine guns and mortars. United State Army soldiers board a ship for their deployment. A ship departs for the Philippines. Soldiers arrive in the Philippines, a United States commonwealth in Asia. Japanese bombers drop bombs over Pearl Harbor. Civilians running on the streets during a Japanese aerial bombardment. United States Navy sailors firing machine guns and howitzers from ships. A ship explodes from Japanese bombing. A little girl runs to her father washing the car to tell the news about Pearl Harbor. The little girl runs across the street to tell her neighbor about Pearl Harbor. A woman writes a letter. A woman bakes a cake. People leave a church after service. An American soldier is shot by Japanese soldiers in the Philippines. A man reads a telegram. The man drives to a farm house, accompanied by a church minister. The man and minister tell the elderly couple living in the farm that their son was killed in action. Women selling war bonds on the street. A man silences his alarm clock and goes back to sleep. Cars racing on the street. Soldiers and civilians evacuating Manila. Japanese bombardment of Manila. A girl turns on the radio before Christmas dinner. Men and women congratulates a woman outside a law office. More civilians receive telegrams. Dead soldiers in the battlefield. A woman opens the Bible and writes the names of the dead. United States soldiers retreat in the Fall of Bataan. A woman shakes her head in disbelief after being told of a rumor her son was killed in action. A man hangs the United States flag on his porch. A bomb explodes near a makeshift tent hospital. Woman fixes bed. A woman eating on the dinner table alone. A soldier swats a mosquito from his neck in the Philippines. Forlorn men and women. Soldiers fighting in Corregidor. Soldiers surrender to the Japanese forces at Corregidor. A captured American soldier harasses a Japanese soldier while frisking him. He was apprehended by Japanese soldiers on guard. Despondent American civilians struggling after the Fall of Corregidor. A man despondently smokes from his bed. A depressed woman struggles to cut vegetables. A doctor treats civilians for shock and depression. A baseball game. A horse race. Boys playing on the beach. United States and Filipino soldiers march with United States and Philippine flags. People line up for blood donations. Civilians donate old rubber and hats. Men line up to punch their time in at work. Boys helping on the farms. Male teachers volunteer to fix civilians’ appliances and cars after school. A welder working at the shipyard. Civilians walking instead of using cars. An Allied plane landing. A woman sewing. A man opens a package of binoculars. People line up to buy war bonds. A majorette leading a marching band. Newly enlisted men with suitcases marching in parade.

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