A U.S. Navy training film about the treatment and recovery of soldier wounded in Saipan during World War II. Division hospital building. Marines pile up sand bags. Tori at the entrance of a Shinto temple as military vehicles move through the gate. A Japanese civilian hospital in a town. Debris being piled up. Marines enter the hospital. A litter patient being carried inside the hospital. Plasma and blood being administered to the wounded Marines. A doctor cleans a wound and administers penicillin. A doctor washes his hands. Patients at the hospital as an ambulance arrives. A sprinkler sprays water on ground to prevent dust from puffing up. A technician works on a microscope and looks into it. A man washes clothes.
A U.S. Navy training film about the treatment and recovery of Marines wounded in Saipan during World War II. An ambulance jeep pulls away from hospital building. Litter patients being unloaded from an ambulance. Wounded Marines on stretchers being placed aboard a landing craft at a beach. A hospital boat also comes for evacuation of the wounded Marines. Walking wounded move up the gangplank of hospital ship USS Bountiful (AH-9). Litter patients being hoisted aboard the USS Bountiful.
A U.S. Navy training film about the treatment and recovery of Marines wounded in Saipan during World War II. An aircraft carrier underway in the Pacific Ocean. Smoke rises from the coast of Saipan as battle continues. U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 aircraft as critically wounded Marines are being loaded aboard the aircraft. Marines aboard the aircraft. Aircraft taxis and takes off for Honolulu. Litter patients being loaded aboard a PB2Y Coronado flying boat. Fruit and juice crates being loaded aboard an aircraft. U.S. flag flies aboard a ship.
Reconstruction of Saipan airfield in the Mariana Islands by American soldiers. Damaged hangars on Saipan airfield due to bombings by Japan. Men beside bulldozers parked in an area. A bulldozer clearing the airstrip. Men set detonation charges on the ground. The bulldozers at work in the background. The charges going off resulting in explosions. Power shovels, bucket elevators and trucks used to reconstruct the airstrip. Equipment at work on the airstrip. Narrow gauge flatcars are loaded with supplies by a crane. The flatcars moving on a path. The supplies are unloaded. A man beside a flatcar. Men beside equipment clearing the airstrip. Two U.S. soldiers sitting on a track and one of them writes 'B & O Express' on the back of a rail cart. The men shake hands. A man beside a rail cart of drums on a track. Men stand on materials in rail carts and the rail carts move. Several tents in view. (World War II period).
Review of air raids in Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. United States Army Air Forces Major General Curtis LeMay and General Thomas S. Power discuss the bombing mission on Kobe, Japan with other officers. Colonels Blanchard, Roberts, Warren and Muehleisen read maps and orders.
Japanese air raid over Saipan during World War II. U.S. Army Air Force B-29 Superfortress bombers parked at an airfield in Saipan, Mariana Islands. Crewmen work on a B-29. Pilots being briefed by USAAF Brigadier General Emmett O'Donnel. B-29s take off from an airbase. B-29s fly through flak. Bombing of Tokyo by B-29s. Wreckage of B-29s after Japanese air raid on Saipan. Firefighters in action. Black smoke rises from the burning B-29s. A Japanese plane goes into a kamikaze suicide dive over Saipan.