The 24th General Hospital in Florence, Italy, during World War 2. Interiors of the Serology section. Histological section of hospital in the foreground. A man works in chemical section of the laboratory. Enlisted Army soldiers at work perform chemical analysis. Bacteriological section in the hospital. Technicians work in Pathology and Veterinary sections of the hospital. Technicians perform tests. Serology section of the hospital. Exteriors of the 2nd Medical Laboratory. A jeep driver pulls away and another pulls up to door. Men load jeeps with bags. A jeep stops in front of laboratory.
The 24th General Hospital in Florence, Italy, in World War 2. Interiors of Laboratory. Enlisted man at work in mobile laboratory under blackout conditions. A man notes on a document.
Amphibious attack by the U.S. forces on an island in the Pacific during World War II. A U.S. battleship underway in the Pacific Ocean. Naval guns firing at Japanese positions. Landing crafts loaded with soldiers approach the island. Aircraft in flight drop bombs. An armored vehicle drives into a beach. U.S. troops wade inland during combat. Marines ducking behind bushes before an explosion takes place on the beach. Dead Japanese soldiers’ bodies lying on the ground. A firing rocket launcher on USMC M-2-4 1-ton cargo truck. Vehicles driven inland. A soldier fires a gun. Soldiers filing out of grass. They carry ammunition. Flames come out of a Flamethrower. The soldiers sit in a trench. Injured soldiers are treated in the jungle. Medics carry a patient on a stretcher. A jeep is driven away. Tanks move in a line. Soldiers on a battlefield.
Wounded crewmen of Belmont-class technical research ship USS Liberty aboard U.S. Navy Kitty Hawk class supercarrier USS America in the Mediterranean Sea. Wounded crewmen surrounded by officers of USS America aircraft carrier. Wounded members of USS Liberty secured in stretchers on the hangar bay. Some of the wounded with crew spectators in the hangar bay. Three of the wounded on stretchers. Hospital corpsmen talk to two of the men. Some wounded with crutches stand in the background. The wounded walk out on the deck-edge elevator. A doctor and a hospital corpsman carry the wounded out on the deck- edge elevator. One man is being given intravenous by one of the hospital corpsmen. The wounded on the stretchers on the deck. Several personnel surround the wounded. An elevator rises to the flight deck level. Men taken aboard Grumman U.S. Navy C-1A Trader aircraft of VR-24 Squadron. Two hospital corpsmen carry a stretcher to the hatch-way of the C-1A aircraft. A wounded man with his medical records secured under a strap. The wounded man on the stretcher shakes hands with one of the men in dungarees. The wounded man being moved towards the hatch-way of the C-1A aircraft. One of the wounded men on a stretcher with personnel standing around. A stretcher case being put inside the C-1A aircraft. Men stand near the hatch of the C-1A aircraft. Another stretcher case being taken up to the hatch of the C-1A aircraft. The stretcher cases being secured.
U.S. Marines complete capture of Tarawa from Japanese defenders in World War 2. U.S. Navy F6F aircraft are seen landing on the Betio airfield, Tarawa atoll, 24 hours after Seabees began to restore it to operation. One of the pilots poses with marines after landing. Marines of the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, wade ashore to relieve the others, provide protection for Seabees, and clean up ordnance in and around the airfield. Formal flag-raising ceremony officially establishing Tarawa under American control. The flag is raised as marines salute. The American flag flying high over the atoll. Battle-weary marines leaving Tarawa to embark on their transport ships, as members of the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines, bid them farewell.
Launch of two aircraft carriers and a battleship in the United States during World War II. People gathered at shipyards of New York Shipbuilding Corporation for the launch of the USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24). Sponsor Mrs. Thomas Holcomb seen with U.S. Marine Corps General Thomas Holcomb. Mrs. Holcomb christens the ship as it launches. Scene shifts to Fore River Shipyard in Massachusetts and launching of the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17). The aircraft carrier slides down skids into the water. Scene shifts to Philadelphia Naval Shipyard on the same day, December 7, 1942, as the launching ceremony for the Battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62). Carolyn Edison, wife of New Jersey Governor Charles Edison is seen christening the ship and it then slides into the water. Two boats underway in the background assist with positioning the Battleship.
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