A U.S. Medical Post at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Vietnam during operation 'Dust Off' of the Vietnam War. Two members of ambulance crew talk to an NCOIC (Non Commissioned Officer in Charge) at the medical post and board an ambulance. The ambulance pulls up. A red beacon on the ambulance. The NCOIC receives a call at the medical post. He writes on a paper and gives assignments to members of ambulance crew.
A film describes functions of Administrative Sections of a U.S. Army evacuation hospital in the European Theater during World War II. Ambulances bring casualties at a receiving tent in an evacuation hospital. Medics remove wounded soldiers on litters from ambulances and carry them to receiving tents. Brief examination of the casualty is made in a tent by doctors to determine whether the case is of extreme emergency. Personal belongings and equipment of the patient are registered. A copy of medical record is forwarded to the registrar. EM (Enlisted Man) assigned to the registrar's office assists in storage and safe keeping of the belongings of the patient. The patient is taken to the sorting tent where an officer expert in wound diagnosis examines the patient to determine the priority of treatment. Morphine is administered to the patient. Transfusions are given to patients suffering from shock in shock tents (post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, in modern terms).
A film describes functions of Professional Sections of a U.S. Army evacuation hospital in the European Theater during World War II. Enlisted Men take X-ray pictures of a wounded soldier in the X-ray tent of the evacuation tent. Doctors examine the X-rays in a tent. Patients are taken to pre-operative tents where they are examined. Instruments are readied and arrangements are made before the surgery is performed. The patients are placed on operating tables in a tent. Surgeons operate on the patients.
A film describes functions of Administrative Sections of a United States Army evacuation hospital in the European Theater during World War II. Hospital patients holding chow trays walk. U.S. soldiers lined up to receive food outside a mess tent. A dietician, a mess officer and his staff prepare plan for meal. A soldier pushes a portable steam table to bed cases in a tent. Food is served to the wounded, recuperating patients.
A film describes functions of a U.S. Army evacuation hospital in the European Theater during World War II. Copies of field medical record are distributed to patients before their discharge. The patients who can not walk are carried on litters to ambulances. An ambulance pulls away. Litter cases are loaded aboard transport aircraft and hospital trains. Ambulances move toward waiting LSTs (Landing Ship Tanks).
An American Hospital Train in Souilly, France during World War I. The hospital train arrives at an evacuation hospital in Souilly. Tents set up at the evacuation hospital. Wounded soldiers of U.S. 364th Infantry on litters being unloaded from the train. The soldiers on the litters are carried into a tent.
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