A film describes functions of Administrative Sections of a United States Army evacuation hospital in the European Theater during World War II. Hospital patients holding chow trays walk. U.S. soldiers lined up to receive food outside a mess tent. A dietician, a mess officer and his staff prepare plan for meal. A soldier pushes a portable steam table to bed cases in a tent. Food is served to the wounded, recuperating patients.
A film describes functions of a U.S. Army evacuation hospital in the European Theater during World War II. Copies of field medical record are distributed to patients before their discharge. The patients who can not walk are carried on litters to ambulances. An ambulance pulls away. Litter cases are loaded aboard transport aircraft and hospital trains. Ambulances move toward waiting LSTs (Landing Ship Tanks).
Salvage and reclamation activities in the European Theater during World War II. An African American U.S. Army soldier in a camp stands beside a large pile of old shoes and boots. Scenes inside a reclamation facility where German prisoners of war remake the shoes. POWs salvage usable parts of the shoes and sew and manufacture new shoes and boots for American soldiers using various machines.
Salvage and reclamation activities in the European Theater during World War II. M1 helmets of U.S. soldiers and medics piled up on the ground. A man cleaning the helmet shells and spray painting over insignias on the helmet shells, including a 29th Infantry Division helmet, a Medic helmet, and an MP (Military Police) helmet. Narrator indicates that totally worn out helmets are sold to factories as scrap.
Salvage and reclamation activities of mess gear and gasoline cans in the European Theater during World War II. Battered canteens and cups are hammered and reshaped. Some are injected with pressurized air to reestablish their shape. A soldier working on the canteens and the cups. Men working on damaged gasoline cans. Remanufactured mess kits are stacked for re-issue after final cleaning.
Salvage and reclamation activities in the European Theater during World War II. Men working on damaged storage batteries. Battery cells are replaced. Buildings in the background. Dead cells are lifted from cases. Dead elements are removed from the cells. New elements are prepared and reinserted in the batteries. Totally unusable batteries are sold for scrap. Some of the parts are melted down and reused in other things.