U.S. Army MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) at K-51 Inje Airfield in South Korea during the Korean War. A vehicle approaches an MP (Military Police) sentry-box along a road. An MP talks to a driver and the ambulance is allowed to proceed. View from the ambulance as it proceeds along a road on the mountainside. Korean maintenance workers stand at the side of the road. Another ambulance and vehicles coming in the opposite direction. The ambulance comes to an area studded with tents. A litter jeep and an ambulance come down a road. The jeep pulls ahead and stops. Ambulances pull up behind. U.S. Marine Corps 1st Medical Battalion Major Arbin T. Henderson walks back to an ambulance and talks to its driver. The ambulance goes past the jeep and pulls into a muddy and flooded hospital yard.
U.S. Army MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) at K-51 Inje Airfield in South Korea during the Korean War. Interiors of a surgical tent shows U.S. Marine Corps 1st Medical Battalion surgeons putting a mask over a wounded soldier's face to administer anesthesia, and work during a surgical operation. The doctors pass clamps and scissors during the surgery operation.
U.S. Army MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) at K-51 Inje Airfield in South Korea during the Korean War. Litter jeeps of U.S. Marine Corps 1st Medical Battalion come and stop near hospital tents. A sign reads 'United States Naval Medical Center'. One U.S. soldier buttons up his coat as he talks with another soldier. A sign at a medical center reads 'Medical D Co.' . Ambulances pull up. Litter bearers start to carry a man on a litter to a tent.
Scene opens with music playing and a large sign displayed reading: "2:oo AM, Band, Forks of Salmon Fire Camp." (Forks of Salmon is an unincorporated community of Siskiyou County in northern California, USA.) A band (named 2:00 AM) is playing and several people are dancing. Announcer states that the band members lost their home in the (still uncontained) fire, last Monday (August 31, 1987). A firefighter member of a Rocky Mountain team from Colorado, Wyoming, and South Dakota, wearing yellow shirt and red cap, expresses appreciation for welcome by Californians.
Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson gives a speech in Washington D.C., United States. Johnson stands at microphone. Trees in the background. Johnson speaks on the Korean War situation very early in the war. He talks about the development of a force in South Korea to ensure the security of the country in the face of attack from North Korea and from possible other countries assisting North Korea.
U.S. troops board a large troop transport ship via a gangplank. Troops on an intermediate deck of the ship. Some are sprawled out relaxing. View from above of more troops boarding a ship. Men and equipment on the pier below. American forces at various far flung places where the U.S. Army Services Forces facilitated their transport and logistic support. Fleeting glimpses of troops in: Ireland; Alaska; Trinidad; and South America. Troops jam the upper deck of a transport ship. Army Service Forces officers in a planning meeting. Naval officers on deck of a ship look through binoculars as U.S. Naval ships bombard the coast of Solomon Islands and landing craft carry marines in an amphibious assault. Next, a man is seen annotating a map of North Africa. Secret maps pertaining to Allied landings in Tunisia and Algeria. Animated map illustrates amphibious landings on North African coast, highlighting Casablanca, Oran, and Algeria. Landing craft carry troops and supplies that are piled up in the sand beach. Soldiers moving military supplies ashore, in fire brigade fashion. Soldiers working at desks in Offices of the Army Service Forces. Filing cabinet in background. Trucks on the move in remote locations. Supply ship being loaded at a terminal. Fuel drums and army vehicles a being loaded aboard ships. Officers seated at a conference table. Ordinary American enlisted soldiers in a griping session at an Army post in the United States. Camera pans over large formation of soldiers. Animated chart shows more than half of servicemen who are part of Army Service Forces (ASF), are unaware of that. Troops marching in review at a tropical location, where reviewing officers wear pith helmets. Chart illustrates lack of unit pride in ASF. Images of various ASF logos. Chart shows results of polling data from soldiers and service members. Signal Corps and Engineers elements of ASF have the greatest unit pride. But most think better of other branches of the Army. More troops marching, in steel helmets and carrying rifles with bayonets affixed. Troops marching overlaid by "50%" indicating that half don't believe their contributions to the war effort are significant. Troops lined up (for pay?). More charts expressing concern about low morale. A heavy gun firing. German paratroopers jumping from a formation of Junkers Ju 52 aircraft. Charts expressing prevailing U.S. troops view that Germany wouldn't be too hard to defeat. Chart showing lack of understanding about why the U.S. is fighting Germany. Image of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill seated in front of their key military officers at Casablanca Conference in World War 2. Chart shows U.S. soldiers believe that the greatest war effort is expended by the U.S. followed by Russia, with China and Britain providing little. Chart illustrates that only half U.S. troops want to get overseas and fight. Chart shows U.S. War Department films can correct this problem.
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