United States soldiers in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Medical battalion area at school house in Koteshi, framed through panel window in the foreground. Soldiers open and set up folding cots inside the building. Road grader levels an area to be used by the medical battalion. A school building with tarpaulin over it for protection. Men place tarpaulin over the school roof to be used as a hospital. Trcuks and soldiers around medical battalion area. Soldiers spray walls of medical battalion area. Hall way of a building. Two soldiers come out of the doorway and walk to end of the hall. A doctor operates on the right shoulder of a Colonel, he takes out a 20 mm shell fragment embedded below his chin. A personnel tracks up sign in pharmacy. Shelves with bottles on them.
United States 3rd Amphibious evacuation hospital in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Marines clean the surface of the hospital tents with large brooms after three bombs were dropped in the area. Marines clean debris from the tent surface. Debris spread around the tents. Bomb wreckage in the area.
United States 3rd Medical Battalion in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. A dentist works on teeth of a Marine in Okinawa, Japan. Dentist works with different instruments. A patient gets out of a dentist's chair as an another Marine waits in the chair in the foreground.
United States Marine Corps 3rd Medical Battalion in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. A patient speaks about his trouble to the doctor. Doctor examines the ear of the patient with an otoscope. He cleans the patient's ear at 'eye-ear and throat room'.
United States Marine Corps 3rd Medical Battalion in Okinawa, Japan during World War 2. Tents at the 3rd Medical Battalion field hospital. Marines seated in front of tents as they talk amongst themselves. A truck pulls up at the tent area to evacuate wounded Marines onto a ship. Marines board the trucks. Wounded loaded onto truck. A patient on crutches awaits for his transportation. Doctor and Chief try to figure out the number of patients to be evacuated. Truck driver seated in a truck. Two wounded marines on stretchers in an ambulance jeep. Marines carry litter patients and place them into a jeep. Ambulance jeep pulls away.
Wounded United States Marines being evacuated in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Ambulance jeep with wounded marines pulls away from 3rd Medical Battalion hospital. Ambulance jeep comes in, stops and backs up. Navy Chief passes transfer sheets of the evacuees. Patients loaded onto a truck as they talk. Medical sheets and transfers. Trucks loaded with patients move down a road. Trucks move over a small bridge and a sign in the foreground reads 'Evacuation Station'. Corpsmen check off patient's name. Marines carry stretcher cases along the dock. Stretchers being placed onto LCM (Landing Craft, Mechanized). Wounded Marines aboard the LCM. Hospital ship USS Comfort (AH-6) in the background.
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