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Film describing the 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, comprising Americans of Japanese ancestry, in World War II.
Film opens showing relatives of fallen American soldiers of Japanese ancestry who made the ultimate sacrifice in the European theater of operations, during World War 2. The dead soldiers were members of the United states 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team. The relatives are assembled in an auditorium at a military installation in Hawaii, where the 100th Infantry is conducting a ceremony honoring their fallen heroes.Camera pans over some of the relatives. Decorations for valor are presented posthumously to some of the surviving relatives. A widow receives the Silver Star. A father receives the Distinguished Service Cross. A mother receives her son's award. Film shifts to scenes showing artillery batteries of the 100th Infantry in action at numerous battles in the Italian Campaign, including Naples, Cassino, Rapido River, Pisa, Anizo and others during World War 2. A column of 100th Infantry accompanied by armor, are seen entering Livorno, Italy. Members in a jeep are seen passing through area of complete destruction. Others pick their way through rubble, as civilians bass the opposite way,carrying salvaged belongings, Troops of the 100th move cautiously and deploy near barricades to shield from snipers. They escort captured German prisoners. Battle casualties are seen being carried into field hospitals. A medical team performing emergency surgery inside a tent. Wounded and convalescing patients being tended by a woman Army nurse. Others recovering outside tents at the field hospital. A group of 100th infantry troops taking a break. One of their medics is interviewed. Gunners seen with Browning M1917 machine gun. Troops preparing a meal in the field. A soldier presenting paper airplanes to Italian children who fly them. M4 Sherman tank parked on Italian street. Battalion members attending a Roman Catholic mass in the field. Army interviewer asks a Japanese-American Lieutenant why he fights in the U.S. Army. He responds saying "I'm fighting over here for the better things of life, and to preserve the American way of living."
Wounded soldiers of the U.S. 442nd Infantry Regiment are brought to a hospital tent in Italy, during World War II.
Wounded U.S. soldiers being treated during Italian campaign of World War 2. Ambulance arrives at a field hospital of the U.S. 3rd Battalion, 442nd Infantry, 34th Division. (Soldiers of the U.S. 442nd Regiment were almost entirely Americans of Japanese ancestry.) Ambulance stops in front of a hospital tent. Injured soldier on litter is removed from the ambulance. An army nurse prepares dressing for a wounded soldier. He lights a cigarette. Surgery performed inside the hospital tent. Wounded men on litters removed from ambulance and carried into tent. (Note: Opening slate showing the name, "Morang,." refers to Lt. Frank Morang, 196th Signal Photo Co.)
Location, construction and organization of a U.S. Army evacuation hospital in the European Theater during World War II.
A film describes setting up of an evacuation hospital in the European Theater by the United States Army during World War II. U.S. soldiers getting wounded during a combat. Wounded soldiers are treated by medics and taken to battalion aid stations in army ambulances. Medics treat soldiers on litters. An ambulance pulls up to U.S. Army 128th Evacuation Hospital. Tents set up at the hospital. The procedure of setting up an evacuation hospital which is usually located outside artillery range shows soldiers working and arranging tents. The tents are set up. A diagram depicts location and organization of an evacuation hospital. Diagram highlights location of various types of tents with headquarters and administrative departments. Trucks bring equipment to the site where construction is underway. Doctors, nurses and EMs (Enlisted Men) unload equipment from the trucks. Men carry large boxes containing supplies. A sign reads 'MED SUPPLY'. Men carry boxes into a tent. Soldiers dig a garbage pit. Telephone lines are installed. Soldiers talk over phone. They set up a water supply system. Hay is strewn along mud to offer firm footing at the evacuation hospital. Squares of slate are laid down. A chart showing Administrative Sections and Professional Sections of Headquarters at a U.S. Army evacuation hospital. The chart depicts Administrative Sections in charge of EMs, utilities and supplies, operation of the mess, transportation, registrar's office and receiving end of evacuation. The chart also includes Professional Sections in charge of surgery, operation of wards, pharmacy, laboratory and X-Ray.
Army helicopters at Phu Tho Racetrack during Vietnam War in Saigon.
U.S. soldiers posted in Saigon Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Opening slate reads: "8 Feb 68, After Action (Saigon/Cholon)." UH-1D helicopters off loading U.S. Army soldiers of 199th Light Infantry Brigade. OH-23 helicopter takes off from Phu Tho Racetrack, (It has been suggested that the Commander, 2nd Bn 40th Arty might be aboard.) Soldiers walk across field along with sentry dogs. A formation of UH-1D Huey helicopters lands in the race track center, raising dust. Next, soldiers are seen walking across the field, carrying their weapons and gear. Closeup of one carrying an M67 recoilless rifle. They step over the racetrack railing and walk to the grandstand building. Change of scene shows U.S. soldiers, stripped to the waist, setting up an m29-81mm-mortar.They pause and look up as another formation of UH-1D Hueys lands in the field. One of the mortar crew turns upright, a wooden box and frame, containing a toilet seat. It sits next to another just like it. Troops stream across the field, as they leave their helicopters.
U.S. Army Air Forces repair and re-fly a battle-damaged B-17 after an emergency forced landing in World War II
Film opens showing a large formation of U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 bombers flying high overhead as they return to bases in the United Kingdom, during World War 2. Closeup of one plane shows Triangle tail code of the 97th Bombardment Group, and tail number 42-23383. View looking past tail tunner turret towards numerous aircraft in a formation. Scene shifts to view from a B-17 of black flak clouds from German anti-aircraft guns. A B-17 in flight with flak damage to a wing, and another with a destroyed left tail stabilizer and elevator. Closeup of feathered right inboard engine on a B-17 in flight. More views from behind the formation, and looking straight up at passing B -17s overhead. View looking down at a B-17 approaching for landing. Closeup of both right engines feathered on a B-17 in flight. (Narrator states an aircraft named "Stella" had three engines inoperative and was unable to reach the field to land.) Army Air Forces controllers communicating by radio with crews of aircraft. View from ground of the B-17 ("Stella") coming in for a crash landing in an oat field, with landing gear not extended. Closeup from cockpit, of number 3 engine running and number4 feathered. View from inside the aircraft as it crash lands. View of it in the field. It displays tail number 42-5910 and a "G" tail code in a white triangle, identifying it as belonging to the 40th Bombardment Wing, 305th Bomb Group at RAF Grafton Underwood Trucks are seen carrying mechanics and technicians to the crash landing site. Next, the B-17 is seen surrounded by repair crews. It is sitting in a cleared area and its landing gear is intact. Closeup of the aircraft's flak torn fuselage. A severely damaged gun turret on the ground next to the aircraft. Section of cockpit sitting on the ground. Views of mechanics working in their portable shops as they make repairs to the B-17 aircraft. Machinist running a lathe in one of the portable shops.View from ground of the mechanics at work on the aircraft's engines, as engineers employ earth-moving equipment in the background to create a temporary runway to facilitate takeoff. Closeups of the earth-moving equipment at work. More closeups of mechanics working to restore the aircraft. Some work on an engine suspended from an A-Frame. Closeup of two mechanics, one of whom displays images of a Lockheed P-38 lightning fighter aircraft and a B-26 Marauder aircraft on his jacket. More views of eath-moving operations. Closeup of a mechanic being moved by crane as he guides a propeller into place on the B-17. Closeups of mechanics affixing propellers on the plane. View of engineers employing surveying instruments as they ready the emergency strip for the B-17's takeoff. Closeup of the aircraft ("Stella") surrounded by seated mechanics, as she is about ready to fly again. View from behind spectators, including local English people, as the aircraft engines start. The repaired B-17 taxis onto the improvised air strip, and raising lots of dust as she takes off. Glimpse of local people waving as the aircraft becomes airborne.
Troops from US Army 217th Artillery Battalion fuel Redstone missile from trucks at White Sands, New Mexico.
United States Army troops of Battery A, 217th Field Artillery Missile Battalion, 40th Artillery Group (Redstone) conducting annual exercises. They fuel Redstone Missile for launch from White Sands, New Mexico. Two army fueling trucks parked next to the Missile. Trucks and equipment are from 209th Artillery Group (Redstone), 4th Field Artillery, being used to fuel the Redstone missile with hoses from trucks. Troops stand next to the truck.
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