"Report from the Aleutians," directed by John Huston, follows the dailybr life of American soldiers serving in the Aleutian Islands, which extendbr in sequence off the shores of Alaska. Despite being cold, barren, andbr generally disagreeable, the Aleutians held military bases of immensebr strategic value in the Pacific theater of World War II. The filmbr describes the geographic importance of the islands, and provides abr portrait of daily wartime operations, such as attack planning andbr bombing raids, that take place at the bases. Huston pays particularbr attention to life on the island of Adak in the wake of the Battle ofbr Dutch Harbor, culminating in a first-person perspective of an actualbr American bombing run against the Japanese.