A U.S. Navy training film titled 'Eye Surgery' about operating a wound in the eye of an American soldier during World War II. Soldiers fire artillery in a battlefield. A patient suffering from tyrigium lies on operation table. Eye of the patient shows a skin formation on the eyeball. Local anesthesia being administered. Eye of the patient being irrigated with saline. Speculum being inserted into the upper and lower lids of the eye. Local anesthesia being administered again. Doctor cuts the upper and lower margins of tyrigium. Head being cut away from cornea. Needle being inserted into conjunctive. Head of the tyrigium being transplanted. Speculum being removed from eye lids.
A U.S. Navy training film about operating a wound in the eye of an American soldier during World War II. A sailor aboard a ship on a look out as he suffers from chalazion. Sailor being operated for chalazion. Forceps being placed and screw tightened. Procaine being injected into the eye. Doctor makes an insertion through the conjunctive and cystic material being removed. Dressing being applied after the surgery.
A U.S. Navy training film about operating a wound in the eye of an American soldier during World War II. An explosion occurs during the war. A soldier's eyes being examined by a doctor. Doctor removes foreign bodies from the eye. A protective patch being applied in the eye. A soldier with a mutilated face after receiving injuries during the war. Doctor treats the injured eye of the patient. The eye surface of the patient being treated with anesthesia. A flap of conjunctive tissue is made by cutting it. Insertion being made below and above to produce a flap to cover the wound. Suture being placed through edges of the flap below and another one being placed through the conjunctive flap above. Suture being packed. An additional suture being placed through inside the conjunctive. Eye being dressed.
A U.S. Navy training film about operating a wound in the eye of an American soldier during World War II. A soldier with an eye injury being operated upon. Doctor performs ocular enucleation on the eye. Speculum being inserted into the eye. Extraocular muscles being picked up and cut. Various rectus being cut like the inferior, superior and lateral. Scissors being used to cut a part and considerable hemorrhage occurs. Suture being passed in circular manner. A sphere of glass being implanted to muscle as a base. Suture being tied and conjunctival wound is sutured. Dressing being applied on the eye.
A U.S. Navy training film about operating a wound in the eye of an American soldier during World War II. A doctor conducts ocular examination of a soldier's eye for any foreign body. An X ray being taken to determine the presence of a foreign body in the patient's eye. Animation shows the presence of a foreign body in the eye and how it leads to infection. A wounded soldier being carried away on litter and being air evacuated. An aircraft in flight.
World Airways Today and Tomorrow shows various civilian and military aircraft being used for various purposes. Birds in flight over a water body. An autogyro in flight. A low wing monoplane performs a roll. A military Boeing 314 clipper aircraft in flight. A TWA (Trans World Airlines) DC-2 aircraft on takeoff with one gear up and the other landing gear of the passenger aircraft still extended. "The Lindbergh Line" painted on its fuselage. A B-29 aircraft in flight. Formation of B-26 bombers in flight above clouds. A B-29 dropping bombs. Bombs away view from bomber aircraft as bombs are released from open bomb bay doors. Explosions on ground targets in World War II as U.S. Army Air Force B-26s drop bombs. A United Airlines DC-2 passenger airplane in flight over a city. China Clipper seaplane taking off. Aerial view of China Clipper aircraft (Martin M-130 four-engine flying boat built for Pan American Airways) in flight over the partially completed Golden Gate Bridge, while still under construction, in San Francisco, California, circa mid 1930s. Lockheed Constellation passenger plane climbing over mountains. Baggage handlers loading cargo and baggage into United Airlines DC-3. (World War II period).