Evacuation of personnel from and delivery of emergency supplies to Bludenz, Austria after the avalanche disaster of 13th January, 1954. A man walks past a building. Men ride a horse drawn sledge. Men shovel snow from a rooftop. People walk about in the street. A chained tractor wheel skids in snow. A black flag is flown to honor those who died in the avalanche. A stone statue.
Evacuation of personnel from and delivery of emergency supplies to Bludenz, Austria after the avalanche disaster of 13th January, 1954. Dogs are being loaded onto a United States Army Sikorsky H-19 helicopter. A dog with a man inside the helicopter. The pilot and the copilot in the cockpit of the helicopter. The rotor blades of the H-19 helicopter start. A cletrack being loaded onto a 6x6 truck. A pilot gets into the cockpit of a H-19 helicopter.
Damage due to avalanches in the Alpine nations of Europe, much in Austria including Bludenz which occurred on January 13, 1954. Several villages are destroyed and many people are killed and injured. U.S. helicopters hovering over the area. Destroyed houses and buildings. The rescue workers working to take out the dead bodies and some survivors from the snow. They shovel the snow. A wrecked train covered with snow on the mountain side. Rotary snowplow on a locomotive used to clear tracks in rescue area. Survivors from train shown rescued 80 hours after event.
Avalanche occurs in Austria. Rescuers search for group of students and teachers trapped in avalanche in Dachstein Peak area. Snow covered Alps in Austria. Snow covered bodies of German teenage students and their teachers being recovered by the rescuers. Bodies being pulled on sleds. A still photograph recovered from film in a camera found with the dead shows the group of students in a huddle for prayer hours before their death. Snow covered bodies being carried on sleds. Austrian flag at half mast to mourn the loss.
Austrian boy Gottfried Eder suffering from hemophilia in Innsbruck, Austria. The boy lying on hospital bed. The doctor comes nearby and talks to him. The boy is cured with anti-hemophiliae globulin brought from the United States thanks to a certain American Information Chief Roberts. A man, woman and the boy seated at a table. Anti-hemophiliae globulin brought to Austria by the United States Air Force. A doctor talks to the boy lying on the hospital bed.
High altitude view of a town in Austria. Man checks blood pressure of a female patient. Another man looks through a microscope in the foreground. Arthritis and Rheumatism patients are taken to a spa located in a mine, through a train. Patients take spa treatment in the mine. A female patient is assisted by a doctor and a nurse.