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Air-Sea rescue and accident during World War II in the Pacific Theater of operations

Celebes, Netherlands East Indies (NEI). Air-Sea Rescue June 11, 1945. View from low flying aircraft of a 13th Air Force B-24 ditched in Japanese-controlled waters off the coast of Celebes, NEI. A Catalina PBY flying boat of the Jungle Air Force's 2nd Emergency Rescue Squadron, lands and picks up the B-24 crew. However, as it takes off on the water, it founders and crashes, killing three men. An accompanying PBY lands immediately and picks up all survivors who are aboard a rubber raft. Crew members on the wing of the PBY, help survivors aboard.

Location: Celebes Netherlands East Indies
Date: 1945, June 11
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041658
Casualties loaded onto USAAF L-5B aircraft on Okinawa, Japan.

Air evacuation of Marine causualties from narrow road, near Itomen, Okinawa in 1945 during World War 2. A Stinson L-5B Sentinel ambulance aircraft of the 163rd Liaison Squadron lands and rolls past a flagman and waiting Marine with arm wound. View of the wounded Marine inside the airplane. View of L-5B taking off and in flight. Wounded Marine on stretcher being loaded on an L-5B and another being taken, on a stretcher, from an ambulance and loaded on an L-5B.

Location: Okinawa Ryukyu Islands
Date: 1945, June 13
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042093
Destroyed B-29, its parts and scattered debris viewed the day after it crashed on Tinian in the Northern Marianas Islands.

Remains of United States Army Air Forces B-29A Super fortress that crashed on March 30, 1945, at North Field, Tinian,in the Northern Mariana Islands, during World War 2. Scattered debris on ground. Remaining piece of tail section displays serial number 265283 indicating it is B-29 number 42-65283, nicknamed "Big Wheel," from the 9th Bomb Group, 99th Bomb Squadron. Reportedly, it experienced mechanical problems during a mission to drop mines in Japanese waters. After jettisoning its munitions, it returned to Tinian, but crashed on the shore. Of the 12 crew, only the radar operator survived.

Location: Tinian Island Mariana Islands
Date: 1945, March 31
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045365
Remains of a United States Army Air Forces B-29 Super fortress that crashed on Tinian in the Northern Mariana Islands., during World War II

Remains of USAAF B-29 number 42-65283 from the 9th Bomb Group, 99th Bomb Squadron, that crashed, 30 March 1945, in World War 2, on Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands. All crew members were immediately killed in the crash, except tail gunner, Sgt. Joseph C. Trullo, Jr., who initially survived but died of his injuries, five days later, and the sole survivor, Radio Operator, Sgt. James Langraf who was injured but eventually recovered. Air Force personnel inspect debris that is scattered across the crash site in sand dunes close to the ocean in the background.

Location: Tinian Island Mariana Islands
Date: 1945, March 31
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045366
Hospitalization of American prisoners of war (POWs) liberated from Japanese prison camp near Cabanatuan City, in the Philippines, during World War II.

Film opens with slate reading: "Cabanatuan Prisoners' Hospitalization at Time of Repatriation." Brief view of a tent-like field hospital where former POWs were being treated, behind American lines, with rescued American POWs in beds and several Army nurses attending them. After that is an extended view of several ambulatory patients engaged in conversations at a hospital behind American lines. At TC:01:35, the scene reverts to earlier time, and a patient is seen lying in the ruins of the prison camp on the day of the rescue raid (Jan 30, 1945). He is being tended to by another soldier, with whom he converses. Two former prisoners are seen in a straw-lined cart prepared for transport back to the American lines, by water buffalo. The remainder of the film shows the former POWs and their rescuers leaving the Cabanatuan prison, on their way back to the American lines. Some non-ambulatory former prisoners are seen lying on straw- covered ground.

Location: Cabanatuan Philippines
Date: 1945, January 30
Duration: 3 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045817
Evacuation to hospitals of American prisoners of war (POWs) liberated from Japanese prison camp near Cabanatuan City, in the Philippines, during World War II

Film opens with slate reading: "Evacuation to Hospitals." Next, on January 30, 1945, the day of the "Cabanatuan Raid" (Mission to rescue prisoners of war from the Japanese prison camp at Cabanatuan) rescuers are seen carrying a former POW from a building, on a litter. Local Filipinos and others are standing on the porch of the prison building. An ambulatory former prisoner comes down the steps unaided. Several rescued prisoners are seated on chairs, conversing. Closeups of some of them. Two weakened and bandaged former prisoners help each other up some steps. Slate states: "Man with Cane afflicted with Beri-Beri." A severely disabled former prisoner, with a cane, makes his way unaided across the grass. Rescuers and Filipinos are in the background, along with some carts used to evacuate disabled former prisoners back behind American lines.

Location: Cabanatuan Philippines
Date: 1945, January 30
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045818
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