Recovery of Marine wounded in Saipan during World War II. United States ships underway in the Pacific Ocean during the battle of Saipan. Naval guns aboard the ship bombard the coast. United States troops aboard transport ships. Landing crafts loaded with Marines move towards the shore. Troops land at the coast amidst heavy firing. Medical Company arrives at the beach and looks after the wounded Marines. Marines fire machine gun and tanks roll. Injured Marines on stretchers being carried away. Litter patients being placed into ambulance jeep and carried away. Medical officer examines the wounded and provides first aid to them. Litter patients being placed in a jeep and walking wounded being helped to get into the jeep. Jeep carries the injured Marines to Regimental aid station. Doctor checks the injured Marines and treats them. Tags being prepared for each patient. Records being maintained. Wounded being loaded onto a jeep and the jeep is driven away to a collecting station. At the collecting station Marines at work.
A U.S. Navy training film about the treatment and recovery of Marines wounded in Saipan during World War II. An ambulance jeep pulls away from hospital building. Litter patients being unloaded from an ambulance. Wounded Marines on stretchers being placed aboard a landing craft at a beach. A hospital boat also comes for evacuation of the wounded Marines. Walking wounded move up the gangplank of hospital ship USS Bountiful (AH-9). Litter patients being hoisted aboard the USS Bountiful.
A U.S. Navy training film about controlling and curing malaria among United States soldiers in the Pacific Theater during World War II. U.S. Navy officers confer about fighting malaria in the Pacific Theater. Officers at a map as they discuss the areas most affected by malaria. Officer points at such areas on the map. Water ponds and dense jungle in Pacific Theater. A malaria casualty being carried on litters. U.S. soldiers advance and walk through the jungle. Soldiers roll down their shirt sleeves. One of them applies repellent on his neck to keep of mosquitoes. A mosquito net and insect spray being used to prevent malaria. A soldier sleeps in bed in an open area without taking any precautions against the malaria causing mosquitoes. Soldiers in a mess line as they take Atabrin pills to save themselves from from malaria. A poster about Atabrin pills. Military vehicles on a beach. A sign on a building reads 'Headquarters of Malaria control' U.S. military personnel conduct census of mosquito population. Men take samples of water to detect the presence of malaria causing anopheles. Seabees detonate dynamite to blast off pools of water to kill mosquitoes. Oil being sprayed on water surface to kill mosquitoes. Scientific combat team works to control malaria. Men work on a dam to flush out mosquito breeding streams.
United States Marines Corps in the Solomon Islands during World War II. Dead Japanese soldiers on a beach. U.S. Marines inspect the dead bodies of Japanese soldiers. The Japanese prisoners seated under palm trees in a field. Captured Japanese soldiers behind a fenced area. Japanese prisoners being made to march. A U.S. Navy medical Corpsman examines the prisoners, some of whom look starved, thin and emaciated. A Japanese soldier enters the fenced area. Japanese prisoners seated in a field. One of them smokes a cigarette.
An Allied campaign in the Solomon Islands during World War II. A machine gun on a beach. Soldiers load cartridges and fire the machine gun. The soldiers load shells into a howitzer. The howitzer is fired.
U.S. Marines in the Solomon Islands during World War II. Food crates in a sling being lowered . The Marines unload food crates from landing crafts on a beach. Signs on the crates read 'Spinach', 'Tomato juice'. The Marines load supply crates onto a Japanese truck. A bomb being taken off a landing barge.
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