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Medics cure patients at 42nd portable surgical hospital in Myitkyina Airdrome, Burma.

Medics cure patients at 42nd portable surgical hospital in Myitkyina Airdrome, Burma. A wounded soldier on a bed. Surgeon administers anesthetic to soldier's leg. Shell fragment is removed from the wound. The soldier's leg bandaged and plaster cast. Medics take the patient on a stretcher. (World War II period).

Location: Myitkyina Airdrome Burma
Date: 1944, July 12
Duration: 2 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027632
Chinese and United States officers siting in a shack in Myitkyina Airdrome, Burma.

Chinese and United States officers sit in a shack in Myitkyina Airdrome, Burma. They consult maps on the table. A soldiers sits with a gun nearby them. Other talks on the phone. A soldier hears a hand radio. Soldiers talk amongst themselves. They point places in the map. Binoculars on the table. (World War II period).

Location: Myitkyina Airdrome Burma
Date: 1944, July 12
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027634
P-40's bomb Japanese installations near airdrome in Myitkyina Airdrome, Burma.

P-40's bomb Japanese installations near airdrome in Myitkyina Airdrome, Burma. P-40 airplane in flight. It flies over a field. An electricity tower in the field. (World War II period).

Location: Myitkyina Airdrome Burma
Date: 1944, July 12
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027635
U.S. soldiers inspect weapons and Chinese soldiers fire 75mm pack artillery at Myitkyina airstrip in Burma.

Artillery fire at Myitkyina airstrip in Burma during World War II. U.S. and Chinese soldiers on the battlefield. Chinese soldiers fire 75mm pack howitzer. Two U.S. soldiers inspect the weapons and advise the gunners.

Location: Burma
Date: 1944, July 9
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061645
United States Army Air Forces P-40 Warhawk fighters landing at captured Myitkyina airfield, Burma during World War II.

Captured airfield of Myitkyina during World War II. USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) P-40 Warhawk fighter taxis on airfield. U.S. Army's 5307th Composite Unit nicknamed Merrill's Marauders pull the tail of a P-40 down, a plane which nosed over during landing.

Location: Myitkyina Burma
Date: 1944, May 21
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061583
Captain James Green being airlifted from his crash site by a Sikorsky YR-4 helicopter in Shingbwiyang, Burma during World War 2

Men carry injured U.S. Army Air Force Jungle Rescue Pilot Captain James Green from hospital tent to completed MEDEVAC landing zone in Shingbwiyang, Burma during World War II. Green had been injured in a crash of his helicopter. Dr. Underwood talks on hand radio as men sight an incoming Sikorsky YR-4 helicopter. Engineer sets off smoke flare. Helicopter lands and men hold it. Men carry Captain Green on litter to the helicopter and he shakes hands with Pilot Lieutenant Raymond Murdock. Dr. Underwood gives Green an injection in his arm. Men put Captain Green in the helicopter and it takes off. Men cheer and shake hands with Dr. Underwood. This is an early example of one of the first helicopter MEDEVAC (Medical Evacuation) flights in a combat zone. Prior to this MEDEVAC flight, this particular helicopter, a Sikorsky YR-4, had been dismantled at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio on January 17, 1945, loaded on a C-54 transport, and flown to the North Burma theater of operations. It was reassembled and flown by Capt. Frank Peterson, USAAF, on January 26, 1945 to evacuate wounded weather observer Private Howard Ross from a 4,700 foot mountain ridge in the Naga hills of Burma.

Location: Shingbwiyang Burma
Date: 1945, April 4
Duration: 5 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037639
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