A film about aerospace medical evacuation and first aid operations for injured soldiers in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Traffic on a street in Saigon. Headquarters of Far East Joint Medical Regulating Office. Men at the office decide upon the hospital best equipped to treat a particular patient. An officer marks on a chart. Another officer speaks over a phone. A teletype strip. Officers gather at a briefing room at Scott air base in Illinois. An officer (General Howell M. Estes, Jr.) gives a presentation about the medical rescue undertaken by air ambulance crew. Officer inquires another officer about a burn patient. Officer also briefs about the weather factors that affect medical evacuation.
A film about aerospace medical evacuation and first aid operations for injured soldiers in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. At the Saigon airport wounded American soldiers on litters being loaded onto an aircraft to be sent to Clark Air Force Base hospital in Philippines. Dr. Louis Patterson, a noted chest surgeon, arrives at Clark Air Base. Aircraft takes off. Ambulances pull up at the airport in Philippines. Wounded being loaded onto an ambulance. Doctor talks to patients and examines them in the ambulance. Patients being unloaded from the ambulance. A wounded soldier in a car as it pulls away.
Soldiers of U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division pick up shells of 105 mm howitzer and leave during Operation Hawthorne of Vietnam War. The soldiers, a mix of African American and White troops, chat and smile during the pick ups.
Soldiers of 101st Airborne Division build a bridge during Operation Hawthorne. They use ropes to put logs of trees across a river. The surface of the bridge is leveled by nailing a plank on an uneven log. African American soldier hammers nail in log through plank. Soldiers stand on bank as the bridge is being built. (Vietnam War period).
Soldiers of 101st Airborne Division load and fire 105mm howitzer during Operation Hawthorne. African American soldier looks through telescope of 105mm howitzer. Another soldier talks on a phone. Stack of ammunition lies under a tent. Two soldiers pick up shells from the stack one by one. A 105mm howitzer is loaded and fired. (Vietnam War period).
Soldiers of 101st Airborne Division near a 105mm howitzer during Operation Hawthorne. Soldiers check the howitzer. A soldier sits in a ditch. Some soldiers sit in foxholes. All carry M-16 rifles. (Vietnam War period).