U.S. 801st Medical Air Evacuation Squadron evacuates wounded soldiers from Munda airstrip on New Georgia Island in the Solomon Islands during World War 2. Interiors of a U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain transport airplane shows a medical corpsman giving water to a wounded soldier. A corpsman treats a patient with bandaged face and arms. Aerial view of a coastline. The C-47 approaches an airstrip, which appears to be Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, for landing. Litter patients are unloaded from the aircraft and placed into an ambulance.
Animation shows U.S. strategy for advances against Japanese in the Solomon Islands, and beyond, emanating from bases on Guadalcanal. The remote island of Rendova. U.S. Army, Marine, and Seabee units landing on Rendova. A U.S. Navy Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber flies very low over the landing party. LVTs are seen (Landing Vehicle Track). Scenes of dense jungle. Large amounts of supplies are unloaded on the beachhead. U.S. troops set up antiaircraft guns on the beachhead. A formation of 4 Japanese dive bombers approaches. They peel off and attack. Fires burn from Japanese bombing. U.S. casualties being treated at the beachhead. U.S. marines exchange fire with Japanese snipers in dense jungle. Several dead Japanese soldiers. LSTs (Landing ship Tank) arrive at beachhead, carrying heavy armor and construction equipment. Seabees operating bulldozers on the island. 155 mm guns are pulled through the jungle, emplaced, and commence firing.
U.S. Army Air Forces bombers and airmen on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. USAAF B-24 Liberator bombers and trucks parked on a strip. Framework of the hangar. Motor of an aircraft. Two members of crew prepare elevator control of B-24. Reparation of Carney Airstrip in progress. A truck pulls landing strip mats on trailer. A bulldozer in operation. A stationary B-24 in the background. The bulldozer pushes a pile of landing mats. Caterpillar, scraper and power shovel work. A pile of discarded mesh landing mats.
U.S. Army airmen on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. EMs (Enlisted Men) stand in four columns. Commander of U.S. 13th Air Force General Nathan Twining and officers stand. General Twining reads speech. General Twining pins medal on Sergeant Myers and shakes hands with him. They both salute.
U.S. troops in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War 2. Repair crew works on USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) P-40 Warhawk fighter plane. Mechanic drops wrench twice and another retrieves it from puddle of water. Two ground crew carry cowling of a P-40, with name "Susie III " painted on it, .across a puddle. Crewmen place propeller on P-400 Airacobra. Propeller being adjusted. Jeeps being driven through the mud on the airfield. Pilots in jeep return to operations tent from their planes. Jeep is driven on a muddy field to the operations tent.
U.S. troops in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. Repair area shows USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) crew removing propeller from P-38 Lightening fighter plane with assistance of a mobile crane. Graveyard where wrecked planes are stripped, shows many damaged parts. Crew removes motor from wrecked P-40 Warhawk fighter plane with the help of a mobile crane. Engine hangs from a crane hook. A P-39 that has been stripped for usable parts after a shelling has damaged it. A damaged P-38. A mechanic tinkers with tail surface of P-40 which was machine gunned and landed with control wires shot up.