From gun camera, tracers are seen as pilot strafes a compound on the ground in Iwo Jima, during World War II. He fires at installation on tip of island, with water on two sides. Smoke rises from the exploding rounds on the ground.
Okinawan woman pulls a cart containing an injured man to a United States Marine Corps infirmary seeking help. Marines hasten to transfer the wounded man onto a litter and bring him into an infirmary tent.. A Marine Corps doctor and medical team examines the wound on the man's leg inside a tent, and they treat him. Another injured person is seen being brought on a stretcher to the infirmary tent.
American marines transport Okinawan women and children in jeep and trailer to a housing area.They park and women and children climb down. United States Marines in the housing area.. Women with baggage on their heads. Two old women outside a house. A bearded old man. Local people move down a dirt road.. Marines in a field as a road grader levels the field. A tent in the background.
Signs read 'CP, 7th Medical Battalion,' and 'Catagut Clearing Station'. Two casualties get out of ambulance. Wounded on litters are taken from tent. Wounded man on litter is carried from Shock tent (sign "Shock" over door...related to post traumatic stress disorder, or "PTSD" in modern terms) and given blood plasma transfusion during his transfer to an ambulance. Man closes doors of jeep. Piper Cub plane parked on rocky field. Sea in the background. Casualty is carried out from plane on litter. (World War II period).
Army Infantry men march by as ambulances delivering casualties to airstrip pass in the other direction. United States soldier casualties on litters are placed into Stinson L-5B Sentinel aircraft. Several of the casualties are wearing oxygen masks. L-5B's taxi on rocky field. Casualty unloaded from ambulance and placed into L-5B. Identifiable aircraft: L-5B serial number 44-16398 of the 163rd Liaison squadron and Marine Corps OY-1 (L-5B) with distinctive shark-mouth painted on nose and number '89' painted on tail.
Ambulance moves along highway and over a bumpy road. A wounded man on litter is removed from an ambulance jeep and placed aboard an L-5B plane. Medics give the wounded man a pat as they strap litter to plane. L-5B taxis and takes off. Men stand behind an ambulance.