The treatment and recovery of Marine wounded in Saipan during World War 2. Injured Marines arrive at collection station and are provided medical aid. Blood plasma being administered. Patients on stretchers being placed in jeep and carried away to evacuation station. Wounded being placed aboard a LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked) to be taken to a ship. LVT pulls away from the coast. Wounded being transferred from the LVT to another landing craft. Landing craft with wounded aboard comes along side a ship. Injured Marines with blood stained face. Litter patients in a sling being hoisted aboard the ship. Doctors and Corpsmen examine the wounded and provide them medical aid. Doctors in an operating room aboard the ship.
A U.S. Navy training film about the treatment and recovery of soldier wounded in Saipan during World War II. United States Marines advance on the island. Marines fire a gun. Injured Marine on a field. Supplies in a sling being unloaded. Water canes being unloaded. Medical supplies arrive at a shore and being unloaded. Carts, jeeps being used to carry supplies inland. Fatigued and war weary Marines arrive at a clearing station for rest and relaxation. Wounded Marine being examined by a doctor.
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.
Animated map indicating routes from Northern Marianas Islands of Saipan, Tinian, and Guam to Japan, and return. Map of the islands and focus on Guam. A village in Guam. Shows natives going down street on a bullock cart. Supply dump showing boxes, tires, and Pilot oxygen containers. Trucks hauling supplies. B-29 on hardstand, with tail code "Z", from the 73rd Bomb Wing, 500th Bomb Group, stationed at Saipan. Several B-29s along the flightline, displaying tail code "O", from the 314th Bomb Wing, 29th Bomb Group, home-based on Guam . Scenes of tent area. Soldiers standing at table, eating. Two homemade washing machines. Two soldiers scrubbing and cleaning fatigues clothing with brushes. Three GIs taking showers.
Boeing B-29 Superfortress taking off from Isley Field, Saipan, during World War Two. View of Pilot at controls. View from nose of aircraft as it flies very low over ships in the water. Crew members in flight gear plus life vests (also known as Mae West jackets) are sweating from tropical heat at low altitude. B-29s moving as they taxi to line up for takeoff. A Curtiss C-46 Commando flies overhead. Seen are B-29s of Saipan-based 73rd Bomb Wing's 497th Bomb Group (Tail Code "A"), 499th Bomb Group (Tail Code "V") and 500th Bomb Group (Tail Code "Z"). Also seen are aircraft of the 314th Wing, stationed on Guam, including those of 39th Bomb Group (Tail Code "P") as well as B-29s of the Tinian-based 313th Wing's 9th Bomb Group (Tail Code "X") and 6th Bomb Group (Tail Code "R"). Views of the B-29s taking off. Name on one aircraft, "The Rocket," can be seen. B-29 taking off directly over camera. Ground operations and departures being controlled by a controller/dispatcher on radio telephone. Formation of B-29s overhead. Interior of a B-29 in flight, showing gunner relaxing at his position. View of crew inside B-29 bomber.