USS Arizona Memorial Reel 1 · Part 3

Description

Agency provided indexes include the following topics: A compilation of World War II Pacific Theater footage. An underwater shipwreck at an undisclosed location; names of some of the men who died on the battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) when U.S. Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, was attacked by Japan on Dec. 7, 1941; Japanese Emperor Michinomiya Hirohito; Germany's Nazi Party leader Adolph Hitler and Italy's Fascist Party leader Benito Mussolini marching together; Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt giving a speech to Congress; Imperial Japanese Imperial Navy warships at sea and Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto; U.S. Sailors at Pearl Harbor; and Japanese Imperial Army Air Force B5N bomber-torpedo planes launching from an Japanese aircraft carrier and flying toward Pearl Harbor. U.S. Sailors launching depth charges and firing artillery shells from ships; U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull in his office in Washington, D.C.; Japanese Emperor Michinomiya Hirohito; aerial shots of Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; the entrance to U.S. Air Force Base Hickam Field, Hawaii; a gathering of U.S. sailors and soldiers; Imperial Japanese Army Air Force planes bombing Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1942; U.S. Navy ships at Pearl Harbor being struck with bombs and torpedoes; the wreckage of the battleship USS Arizona (BB-39); and the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender by U.S. Navy Admiral Chester Nimitz, commander in chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet, and Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japanese foreign minister, aboard the battleship USS Missouri (BB-36). The film ends with scenes of the USS Arizona Memorial, Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Combat scenes; Foreign military; WWII; Battleship; USS Arizona (BB 39); Pennsylvania class; Multinational; United States Pacific Command (USPACOM).

Collection

Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense

Series

Moving Images Related to Combat Visual Information