U.S. Army paratroopers are seen heading toward C-47 transport planes and boarding them for a planned post-war airborne exercise in the Philippines. A large number of C-47 transport aircraft are seen with engines running on an airfield. They begin to taxi out for takeoff. View of a C-47 plane in flight, carrying an advance trooper who parachutes out carrying a radio beacon which he is next seen setting up the "Eureka" part of Signal Corps "Rebecca/Eureka" system. Closeup of the equipment and the trooper setting it up. He assembles a long radio antenna attached to the transmitter. View of three C-47 aircraft in flight heading toward the paratrooper drop zone. Animated drawing shows how the aircraft, carrying the "Rebecca" airborne interrogators, home in on the Eureka signal from the ground. Next, paratroopers are seen exiting aircraft over the drop zone. View from another airplane of the troopers' chutes opening and them descending from the C-47s. Parachutes are silhouetted against cloudy skies. Paratroopers landing, some roughly, on the ground.
U.S. Marines in the Philippines during World War II. Marines aboard a landing craft and ships underway at sea. They fire guns. Smoke due to firing and bombardment. Smoke arises as a landing craft explodes. Mountains in the extreme foreground.
U.S. Marines in the Philippines during World War II. Marines aboard a ship underway at sea. They wear life jackets. A wounded marine on litters lying aboard the landing craft. Medics treating the wounded. A marine watching the enemy actions through binoculars.
A film about aerospace medical evacuation and first aid operations for injured soldiers during the Vietnam War. A doctor enters the Clark Air Force Base hospital building in Philippines. A sign on the building reads ' Emergency' Wounded soldier on a bed in an operation theater. Doctors and nurses prepare to operate the patient. X ray films of the wounded soldier reviewed before surgery begins. Doctors perform the surgical operation. Doctor comes out of the operation theater. Sun rises from behind the clouds. A nurse walks down the corridor of the hospital. A soldier walks after recovering from the injury.
A film about aerospace medical evacuation and first aid operations for injured soldiers during the Vietnam War. Two nurses get ready and leave for Clark Air Force Base hospital in Philippines. Nurses walk through the corridor of the hospital. A doctor talks to a wounded soldier in bed. Soldier moves his arm to show the progress. Nurses talk to different wounded soldiers as they recover at the hospital.
A film about aerospace medical evacuation of wounded American soldiers during the Vietnam War. A United State Air Force Military Airlift Command C-141 aircraft lands at an airport in Philippines to pick up wounded American soldiers and ferry them back home. View of medical air evacuation equipment tied down in the aircraft's cargo hold. Trailers pull up near the aircraft. Men unload cargo from the aircraft and put it onto the trailer. Trailers pull away from the airport. Airmen prepare the interior of the aircraft for medical air evacuation.. Seats being put up. Poles being erected. Oxygen masks and other medical equipment being set up aboard the airplane.
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