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Chinese and American troops battle Japanese forces as they proceed along the Ledo road in the China-Burma-India theater of operations in World War II
On Christmas Eve, 1943,during World War 2, the Chinese 38th and 22nd Divisions are seen marching along a road toward North Burma. A regiment of Merrill's Marauders is seen joining the march from India through Burma. (Narrator says they will engage the Japanese 18th Division.) Along the line of march a road sign reads,"Shinbwiyang, Mile 110." Numerous views of troops struggling through jungles and natural obstacles. They employ pack animals that sometimes had difficulty in rough terrain. Animated map shows the route from Ledo, Assam, India, to the places of Chinese and American engagement with Japanese forces, in the Hukawng Valley. U.S. troops are seen moving under fire and returning fire with rifles, Browning M 1917 and M 1919 machine guns. Some of Merrill's Marauders wear standard M1 steel combat helmets, while others wear older M1917A1 "Kelly" helmets. One is seen firing a Bren gun with top-mounted curved box magazine. Others fire mortars. Chinese troops seen firing small artillery pieces. M3A3 Stuart light tanks of the joint Chinese-American 1st Provisional Tank Group (1st PTG) are seen with infantry walking behind them. Next, Allied casualties on litters are seen being placed in an ambulance. Numerous wounded are seen on the ground. Chinese troops carry a wounded on a litter. Views of Japanese soldiers being burned out of their hiding places by Chinese troops. Numerous views of dead Japanese soldiers. Scene shifts to air support by U.S. Army Air transport command providing aerial resupply from C-47 transport aircraft. C-47 aircraft seen flying over jungles. Monitors at a headquarters location are seen charting the changing positions of the Allied troops on the ground. View in a warehouse where air drop ready supplies are stored. Numerous views of supplies of all kinds being readied for air drop, including mail for the troops. Shipments being loaded aboard a transport airplane. C-47 airplane taxiing out after loading. Troops on the ground in radio contact with a transport plane. A long sequence ensues showing aerial resupply air drops from C-47 transport planes. After that, medical personnel are seen on the ground providing care to seriously wounded under difficult circumstances. Closeup of a surgeon tending to a patient. Many wounded seen on the ground awaiting attention and others in tents. A wounded on litters are transferred from an ambulance to an airplane. A woman nurse with other medics transferring patients. View inside an airplane set up for air evacuation. A nurse gives a wounded patient some water to drink. At a location unreachable by larger transport airplanes, a wounded soldier is placed aboard a single engine Stinson L-5 Sentinel liaison airplane which is then seen taking off and flying away. Animated map shows progress of Chinese troops on the Ledo road.
UH-1 Huey helicopter and ambulance bring in wounded soldiers for medical aid in Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
Medical evacuation and first aid operations for injured United States soldiers in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. An air ambulance UH-1 Huey helicopter arrives at a landing zone and U.S. Army soldiers run towards it. Wounded being unloaded from the helicopter. A soldier speaks on wireless. Wounded being loaded onto an ambulance. Wounded on litters being unloaded from helicopters and loaded onto an ambulance van. Pilot in the cockpit of the helicopter. A soldier places a box onto a jeep.
3rd Geneva Convention. U.S. assistance to rescue civilian hostages during insurrection in Congo. Proper treatment of prisoners, in Vietnam.
European hostages, rescued from Stanleyville, arriving at Leopoldville airport in the Congo, during insurrection there in 1964. Rescued persons deplane from U.S. Air Force C-130 aircraft by way of its rear cargo door and ramps. Sick and wounded are met by medical personnel who place them in ambulances. Next, text from 3rd Geneva Convention, of 1949, is displayed. Scene shifts to U.S. military advisers in Vietnam helping train Republic of Vietnam soldiers (ARVN) in proper treatment of prisoners; methods of taking prisoners with minimum of force; interrogation methods; and medical treatment of wounded prisoners. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Army Medical Service at work during the Korean War.
The role of the American Army Medical Service during the Korean war. U.S. Army Captain Carl Zimmerman introduces Major General George E. Armstrong, Surgeon General of the U.S. Army who speaks from Washington, DC, about the work of the medical service. Scenes from the Korean War. U.S. troops rushed from japan, in July 1950 after a Chinese offensive at the 38th Parallel. Troops disembarking from ship and unloading artillery. Medical personnel offloading from assault boats, including doctors, medics, ambulances and drivers. A crane offloads medical equipment and supplies from a ship. Nurses with a mobile surgical hospital unit. Medics remove a casualty from an ambulance, on a stretcher. U.S. infantry slogging through difficult terrain. An ambulance driven on a mud road. Korean refugee families. Children sit and eat. People walk. An old Korean man is helped into a car. U.S. C-54 transport aircraft unloading supplies and evacuating wounded on stretchers. Medical supplies being unloaded from an aircraft and loaded into a truck. Surgeons in a tent hospital. A doctor treats a patient who is receiving blood plasma in an IV. Medics moving with tanks and infantry. Walking wounded being assisted. U.S. wounded lying on the ground, attended by medics. The U.S. medics treat injured soldiers during a tank battle. Soldiers on tanks. Thousands of paratroopers jumping from aircraft, their parachutes filling the skies. U.S. Army wounded being treated on stretchers around the Yalu River. Tenth Corps Troops in long winter withdrawal. U.S. Marine aircraft evacuating wounded. Troops withdrawing by sea in Landing Ships.
Soft tissue wounds of U.S. soldiers and their recovery after successful surgical operations in Europe during World War II.
A film shows U.S. soldiers being hit by shell fragments and their recovery after surgery in Europe during World War II. A case of soft tissue wound shows a wound on the leg of a soldier who was hit by a shell fragment. Surgery on the wound shows gentle exploration revealing the path of a muscle. The skin incision is enlarged. A blood cord is evacuated. A shell fragment is removed. The wound is dressed. The wound after few days of injury. The wound is ready for skin grafting. The graft being stitched on the wound. Stitches are removed after few weeks and the patient is discharged. A case of multiple soft tissue wound shows a wounded soldier on an evacuation hospital bed. Two wounds on the left arm of the patient. X-rays of the arm of the patient. An incision is made to connect the two wounds. Margins of the wound are divided. Multiple wounds on the hand of a patient. The wound on the left arm after two weeks. The wound is ready for secondary closure or skin grafting. Strapping is done to bring skin margins together. Surgeons operate the same patient. The wound is stitched. The patient shows his hand after healing. A soldier with a wound just below his buttock. A soldier with a scar under scapula. Wounds on right leg and left arm of a soldier. Medics evacuate a wounded soldier. A surgical operation in progress. The soldiers smile after their successful recoveries from soft tissue wounds. U.S. troops during operations of World War II.
Training film for U.S. troops with the Army of occupation in Germany after world War II
Opens with bell tolling Victory against Germany in World War II. Next, a slate reads: "Victory Leads to Peace," and a farmer is seen with cattle pulling a plow. But narrator says "the problem now is future peace," and a map of Germany is shown overlaid with "Your Job in Germany." A cartoon of a soldier is superimposed on the map, along with one of a World War 1 American soldier and a figure of possible future soldier with similar mission. Camera focuses on parts of German aircraft in a jumbled heap. Closeups of weary defeated German soldiers at end ot World War II. Glimpse of Adolf Hitler speaking and haranguing an audience from a podium in an animated and forceful way. Swastika flags displayed from houses in a quaint German town. Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Reich Minister of Propaganda, at a microphone. Glimpse of a German concentration camp. But as they appear, each of the Nazi elements promptly disappears, showing the scenes without such Nazi symbols and persons. Skeleton remains of bombed buildings. Flower displays. Bucolic German rural countryside and quaint old villages in peaceful settings. Camera focuses on a book titled "German History." Chapter I, titled "Blood and Iron," shows Image of Otto von Bismarck. German troops march in a parade. Narrator states that "under Bismarck, the German empire was built." (He formed the German Empire in 1871, unifying Germany with himself as Imperial Chancellor, while retaining control of Prussia at the same time.) The film shows mounted German lancers as it alludes to Bismarck's campaigns against Denmark in 1867; Austria in 1866; and France, in 1870. Germany's leaders celebrating its status, in 1871, as the mightiest power in Europe. Troops marching and girls dancing nearby. Farmers plowing field with a horse and cow. Classic peaceful rural alpine scenes with local people in agricultural pursuits. A group of local German musicians playing folk music as village people dance outdoors. Back to the book, Kaiser Wilhelm II is shown on Chapter 2, entitled: "Deutschland über Alles." Gathering of German soldiers in Pickelhaube (spiked helmets). A German Big Bertha howitzer firing. German troops marching against Serbia; Russia; and France (with view of war damaged French cathedral). German invasion of Belgium (with view of clock tower resting in rubble). German troops seen in Italy, walking past battle-damaged buildings. German Zeppelin dropping bombs on British targets and view of bombed out London neighborhood. Next scene shows a capsized ship with survivors running across its hull. Film slate labels the scene as United States, as if it is a U.S. ship attacked by Germany. (Actually, it is the Austro-Hungarian Battleship, SMS Szent Istvan, torpedoed, by Italian torpedo boats, during World War I.) Next, American soldiers in trench are seen going "over the top" and into "no man's land" on the western front of World War 1. Glimpse through a window of Kaiser Wilhelm II, after defeat of Germany, in 1918. View of Germans in a Beer Garden. Picturesque view of German town. A German orchestra performing. American soldiers marching out of Germany, with flags waving. Back to the history book,as chapter III is revealed, entitled "Today Germany, tomorrow, the world," and featuring Adolf Hitler. German troops invading Austria (where a civilian lies dead on the ground). German troops entering Czechoslovakia (where local people in tears render the Nazi salute). They march into Poland (where a girl weeps over someone, not seen, on the ground). They march into France (where a wounded, bandaged child cries in a bed). Next, is a scene from England, where a British child victim of bombing lies dead in the remains of a shelter. German troops invading Norway, Holland, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg and Russia (where a woman tries to rouse a dead woman). They invade Yugoslavia (where women sit near coffins of children) and Greece (where a woman rescues a naked child). A U.S. merchant ship explodes after being torpedoed by a German submarine (unseen). Scenes of destruction with people plucking dead victims from rubble of buildings. American troops invading Normandy, France on D-day, June 6, 1944. Several American soldiers fall to German gunfire on the beach. Wounded American soldiers being transported in jeeps on the battlefield and being placed on landing craft for evacuation. Americans walking past huge piles of destroyed aircraft parts. A landing craft filled with wounded American soldiers. American wounded and dead on a battlefield. Sailors abandoning a burning American ship by jumping into the sea. A sailor picked up in a life boat. A wounded American soldier being dragged from the beachhead at Normandy. Various wounds being treated by U.S. Medical Corps personnel. More scenes of American wounded being moved on stretchers. Scene shifts abruptly to German people folk dancing. Film concludes with question marks about the future.
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