The film begins by describing how the Aleutian Islands were considered a "back door to the United States", resulting in the
Aleutian Islands Campaign, after which the islands are now "a front door to
Tokyo". It goes on to describe the harsh and widely varying environment—rain, snow, thunder, whirlwind gales—which the narrator attributes to
Mother Nature: "the old bag blew her top!" The narrator also describes the conditions as "almost unbelievable", to which an observing
elephant seal replies with
Jimmy Durante style, "Nevertheless, that's the conditions that prevail". Two servicemen emerge from thick mud riding on what appears to be another serviceman. A "williwaw" strikes suddenly, stripping buildings and even hills off the landscape. Difficulty of airstrip maintenance due to excess moisture is the next topic; airmen (including Private Snafu, in his lone appearance in the short, donning a diving suit) dive into a pond to retrieve a
B-17. The aircraft rises from water and takes flight, opening its bomb bay to discharge a fish. This animal drops into the gaping maw of the seal, who repeats his earlier dialogue. ==References==