I. "Cairo - Conference and parade." Road-check ensures safety at the Second Cairo Conference. Formal pose outdoors by participants including Roosevelt, Churchill and President Inn of Turkey sitting in front. Churchill, wearing the uniform of the Colonel in Chief of the 4th Hussars, then visits his old regiment accompanied by the Commander of the British forces in Egypt, Lieutenant General Stone. Afterwards news came that Churchill had pneumonia.

II. "Bloody battle for Tarawa." US Naval and Marine forces under Major General Holland Smith and Rear Admiral Harry Hill approach Tarawa in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands after heavy air and sea bombardment. Injured Americans and dead Japanese indicate the severity of the fighting, described as a "bloody battle." British artillery captured at Singapore is discovered in an enemy redoubt. Elsewhere Korean labourers, imported by the Japanese during their occupation of the islands, are rounded up. Americans prepare an airfield.