In opening scene prior to World War 2, camera pans across a building complex that might be a resort hotel. Scene shifts to hundreds of bathers on shallow water at a beach. Life guards occupy a structure in the shallows. Families with small children fill the shoreline and shallow water. some of the small children use flotation devices. Actual swimmers are seen farther out in deeper water. Closeup of three small children playing with a pot as they sit in a protected area that seems to be surrounded by seaweed or other vegetation. A boy behind them works to build the surrounding wall. Change of scene shows another area of beach with a long pier extending out into the water. The shore is completely hidden by families seated on the beach under huge umbrellas and tents. The next scene is of a downtown commercial district festooned with numerous banners overlooking the street. There are no vehicles evident. The entire area is filled with pedestrians. At another section of the town, the street is more densly crowded with pedestrians.
View of broad open plains of Jezreel Valley (Emek Yizrael) in Palestine, with hills in background. A sign reads: EIN HAROD-TELYOSEF, in English, and also in Arabic and Hebrew. View of a dirt road leading to a cluster of low Jewish settlement buildings and what appears to be an electric pole. Two men plow field, in the Balfouria settlement, using two teams of horses. View of hills in background. View from Mount Gilboa slopes, of rural roads and some cultivated fields below. A lone car snakes along one of the dirt roads. View of Nazareth on opposite slopes.
U.S. soldiers in Honolulu, Hawaii during World War II. A soldier holding a rifle stands at guard duty near a sea. Pali windward side of Oahu facing Kailua and Kaneohe Bay.
Segments of film, shot under direction of John Ford,for documentary on Battle of Midway in World War 2. Two U.S. Navy F4F-4s take off successively from deck of an aircraft carrier. A Douglas Dauntless (SBD-3) takes off. Man in steel helmet strains to look directly overhead through binoculars, as a flight of five Japanese zeros peels off overhead and dives. One is seen releasing a bomb. The Five aircraft fly away in trail formation and then reappear flying toward the camera and dropping bombs. Flak clouds hang low in the air. Objects stike the water with splashes. Antiaircraft fire, with tracers visible, is directed at low flying airplane. Two Japanese zero fighters zoom low toward the camera and pull out overhead. A flight of three Douglas Dauntless aircraft in formation.
Color footage shot during WWII under the direction of John Ford for his documentary on the Battle of Midway. United States aircraft carrier underway in the Pacific Ocean. U.S. Navy F4F-4 Wildcat aircraft taking off from the flight deck. Other F4Fs warming up in the background. Men aboard the aircraft carrier. Douglas TBDs and SBDs flying low over water, simulating attacks on Japanese ships. Flak in the sky. Smoke rising from simulated burning ships.
Scenes shot under direction of John Ford during Battle of Midway. A United States aircraft carrier underway in the Pacific Ocean. U.S. Navy pilots climbing out of their cockpits after a mission. The aircraft parked on the flight deck of a carrier. The third pilot seen is Lieutenant Commander John S. Thach, inventor of the so-called "Thach weave," an aerial maneuver. Japanese flags painted on the fuselages of the aircraft, marking their victories in the air. Pilots climbing down from the aircraft on to the flight deck. The aircraft carrier underway. Other ships underway in the background.
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