Film starts showing view from inside a U.S 8th Air Force B-17 flying fortress bomber going through clouds of black flak from German anti-aircraft fire over Kassel, Germany during World War 2. View from another airplane of bombs falling from a B-17. View from a bomber of bombs bursting on the ground with heavy smoke rising. More views of flak clouds. A B-17 is truck by anti-aircraft fire has flames coming from its right wing. Crew members are seen bailing out of the plane, as it slowly descends. Closeup of the stricken airplane. Glimpse of a possible open parachute. View from inside a B-17 as cluster of bombs fall from its bomb bay. View of contrails below as seen from inside one of the bombers.
American 8th Air Force Division attacks a key railway center in Regensburg, Germany. B-17 bombers drop bombs to destroy a railway center Gun camera footage shows bomb impact causing a pillar of smoke to rise.
American pilot, examining a crashed B-25, in Burma, during World War 2. He places instruments, he's removed from the aircraft, on its wing. The aircraft is a B-25J serial 43-3951 "Cornhusker" of the 83rd Bomb Squadron, 12th Bombardment Group. He gets down from the wing carrying the instruments and moves towards his Sikorsky YR-4B helicopter. He gets into the helicopter and starts the engine. The Helicopter lifts off and hovers low over the crashed B-25.
U.S. Army pilot and ground crewman inspect litter space on L-5C, tail number 44-17383. The aircraft taxis past a parked Sikorsky R-6 helicopter and takes off. Four pilots in flight suits converse near two L-5s. Large group of Philippine children gather behind them. A U.S. soldier (Corporal) is brought on a stretcher and placed on ground near the L-5C. The children gather all around to watch. They are led away about 50 feet from the airplane, as the stricken Corporal is loaded into the Stinson L-5C air ambulance aircraft. A trailing slate reads: "Survivors MACASPAC"
Clam diggers in Tacoma walk along the beach looking for Goeduck clams spouting water. They point towards some spouts, and begin digging for clams using shovels. Afterwards, they show several Goeduck clams they have dug from the sand.
Ohio and Scotia rivers with water flooding the streets, railway tracks across Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Cars submerged in water move through the streets. Floods partly submerge houses and buildings. Two boys sail on makeshift raft. Men carry their children as they cross flooded street. Pedestrians walk on elevated planks during the flood. People sail by boats to cross the city. Sign showing the directions to Columbus, Gallipolis, Marietta, and Ravenswood. The worst flood in many years claims five lives and renders many homeless.
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