A United States Army Douglas DC-3 transport plane taxis and takes off at Naval Base Iwo Jima during World War II. Dust obscures the view from dirt airstrip takeoff. A badly wounded United States Marine lying on his side on blood-stained stretcher. His bandaged head is soaked in blood. House flies sit on bloodied bandage and stretcher. Soldiers loading patients and casualties on transport plane. The wounded Marine is placed aboard the plane for air evacuation. Douglas DC-3 “Peg o’My Heart” takes off from airfield.
A badly wounded United States Marine on stretcher on Iwo Jima during World War II. His neck bandage is blood-soaked. Soldiers carry and place wounded Marines aboard a Douglas DC-3 transport plane for medical air evacuation. Douglas DC-3 transport planes in airfield before take-off.
Makeshift tents by United States Marines on Iwo Jima after its capture by American forces during World War II. Coconut trees in the background. A man drives an army green bulldozer. Camera pans to show dirt road on the right. Soldiers and carpenters build wooden structures on the island. A soldier hammers a wooden frame in the heat. The soldiers raise wooden frame up. They hammer nails into the frame.
A United States Army Douglas DC-3 transport plane taxis before take-off at Iwo Jima Naval Base during World War II. Another Douglas DC-3 transport plane approaches and lands at the airfield. A Douglas DC-3 taking off.
An injured U.S. soldier on a stretcher is loaded into a medical vehicle. A Douglas R4D-8 transport aircraft taxies on a runway in Iwo Jima, while U.S. Marines walk by and watch. Five Marines, all in arm slings, walk past the R4D-8. A few men on stretchers are brought into a building, and another man, smoking a cigarette, is moved on a stretcher into the back of a small vehicle. Another man with an injured hand is moved into a small vehicle on a stretcher. A World War 2 medical transport truck drives off, and the camera gives a closeup of the red cross symbol on the truck.
U.S. Officers seated at a planning table aboard a U.S. warship during World War 2. They refer occasionally, to a stack of papers (battle plans or intelligence reports) as they point to a relief map of Iwo Jima. They discuss various places on Iwo Jima.