An American hospital train in Toul, France during World War I. Wounded U.S. soldiers on litters are removed from ambulances. The wounded soldiers leave a truck at a rail road station. They embark on an AEF (American Expeditionary Force) hospital train. Soldiers on litters are carried into the train. Wounded soldiers in the train.
An American hospital train in Horville, France during World War I. Wounded U.S. soldiers on litters are carried into a hospital train by other soldiers. Interiors of the train show patients. The patients read newspapers.
Amphibious landings of Allied soldiers in Agropoli, Italy during the Italian Campaign of World War II. U.S. soldiers of 34th Infantry Division and British soldiers move down the gangplank of a ship. Soldiers embark on LCTs (Landing Craft Tanks) which move them close to a beach, at which point the soldiers disembark into DUKWs (six-wheel drive amphibious trucks). DUKWs loaded with soldiers move towards the shore. They move up a beach. Infantrymen disembark from the DUKWs and move along the beach.
Sequence starts at Tontouta Air Base in New Caledonia, on the near left side of runway 2 in the area of the 13th Troop Carrier Squadron ( a.k.a. the Thirsty 13th) with their plane "Lady Eve" on the right. (The 801st Medical Air Evacuation Squadron was assigned to the 13th TCS on January 9, 1943, and remained with it until the end of the war. But they also flew on planes of the 63rd and 64th TCSs, and with the Marines.) Takeoff is on runway 11 at Tontouta Air Base. A pilot and a co-pilot at the controls in the cockpit of a C-47. A navigator at work. C-47s in flight west over New Georgia, 10 miles southeast of Munda, near Eghelo. The plane landing at Munda has no tail number and is probably a U.S. Marine Corps plane. They evacuate wounded soldiers from Munda airstrip on New Georgia Island in the Solomon Islands during World War 2. Doors of the aircraft are opened. An ambulance backs to the door of the aircraft. Litter patients are removed from the ambulance and loaded aboard the C-47.
Headquarter buildings and a hangar of Detachment 9 of U.S. Air Force 38th Rescue Squadron at Bien Hoa Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. USAF (United States Air Force) and VNAF (Vietnam Air Force) personnel check maps during a briefing session.
U.S. Navy UH-34D Sikorsky helicopters in flight over Vietnam during the Vietnam War. UH-34D Sikorsky helicopters parked on the deck of the USS Princeton (LPH-5). Aerial view of the UH-34Ds parked on a landing strip. The helicopters in flight.
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