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.
Elements of the U.S. 199th Light Infantry Brigade come out of a jungle during the Vietnam War. Troops cross open field. Flight of UH-1D helicopters land in grassy field. Soldiers get off UH-1D. Other soldiers climb aboard the UH-1Ds. The UH-1Ds take off from the field.
A film about aerospace medical evacuation of wounded American soldiers during the Vietnam War. A United State Air Force Military Airlift Command C-141 aircraft lands at an airport in Philippines to pick up wounded American soldiers and ferry them back home. View of medical air evacuation equipment tied down in the aircraft's cargo hold. Trailers pull up near the aircraft. Men unload cargo from the aircraft and put it onto the trailer. Trailers pull away from the airport. Airmen prepare the interior of the aircraft for medical air evacuation.. Seats being put up. Poles being erected. Oxygen masks and other medical equipment being set up aboard the airplane.
Aerial view of (USARV) United States Army Republic of Vietnam Headquarters Complex at Long Binh, Vietnam. View of surrounding areas. (Vietnam War period).
Vietnamese marine sits on box on dock area. Messenger hands marine a message. American advisor chat with two Vietnamese soldiers. Vietnamese sailor talks on a microphone. Pre-assault brief by Vietnam Navy (VNN) Commander to Republic of Vietnam (RVN) marine captain, United States Marine Corps (USMC) Captain and United States Navy (USN) Lieutenant. VNN Armored troop carriers (ATCs) underway in river. American and Vietnamese officers talk. Stern view of ATC underway. Vietnamese AT's underway in river in columns. Vietnamese sailor talks on a radio. RVN marine points to riverbank. VNN medic with red cross on his sleeves. (Vietnam War period).