People gather to collect clams from a beach area in Ocean City, Washington. Men and women along a twelve mile front on the beach collect clams in buckets. They load their collection onto a truck.
Three California police officers search numerous makeshift shelters, looking for indigents during the Great Depression. The officers approach an abandoned car body. They try to open the door, look under the covers of the hood and inspect the body. A ramshackle hut on the field, covered with stones, logs and rags. The officers inspect the hut, look into an opening on one side and walk around it. The officers inspect empty cartons and empty glass bottles on a table. A broken rack outside a hut in a poverty stricken area. Things in an abandoned cart nearby. They inspect another shack, open the window and look inside. Dilapidated huts and shacks and covered vehicles. The cops inspect many huts, look inside, try to open doors and windows. Posters cover a wall of one hut. They inspect the interior. An old car. The officers approach a shack as a man emerges from inside.
Three California police officers search shacks for indigents. The police officers stand outside one of the huts and a man emerges from it. Officers walk inside to inspect the ramshackle hut. They walk up to another hut. A group of men comes out of the hut and the officers look inside. The police officers escort group of indigents along a railroad track. Old people come out of another ramshackle hut.
A freight train moves on a railway track. Trainmen are seen on top of the box cars, and one on the caboose, who waves a flag. Police officers inspect vehicles on a nearby road in California. A sign reads 'California Inspection Station, Department of Agriculture'. California police officer speaks to car drivers and inspects vehicles before they drive past. Occasionally, the officer directs a car to pull off the road. A sign reads 'Stop State Officers'.
Aftermath of attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, during World War 2. An animated map shows Japan in the Pacific Ocean. Nagasaki, Kobe and Otaru in Japan. U.S. propaganda scenes with caricature voice of a fictional "Mr. Tojo" of Japan declaring various U.S. Navy ships destroyed after the Pearl Harbor attack. Scenes of various capsized and damaged ships in Pearl Harbor following the Japanese attack. United States naval personnel and civilian personnel work on salvage and repair. Engineers and personnel recruited. Navy divers get into scuba diving suits and helmets and go under water to collect salvage and make repairs. Destroyed USS Nevada, USS West Virginia, USS California. Salvage crew work aboard these ships. Refloated and refitted U.S. Navy ships departing Pearl Harbor in the war effort. View of the Aloha Clock Tower. Sailors stand with Lurline ship in background. View of people enjoying Waikiki Beach in 1940 or 1941 before the attack. Later scene of the same beach with two young boys playing in the sand, but barbed wire between the beach and the ocean, following America's entry into World War 2. Empty streets of Honolulu at dusk as blackout time hours begin. Narrator speaks out against Japan and states that all they that take the sword shall perish the sword, and text "This is not the End" appears at the end of the film, following by text, "This is but the Beginning!"
Parachutists undergo physical training at Fort Benning, Georgia during World War II. United States troops exercise on parallel bars and narrow catwalks. They learn acrobat technique to fall on ground without hurting themselves. Paratroopers mass jump from a fleet of aircraft in flight. The trainees land on ground with their parachutes.
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