A U.S. Navy training film about the treatment and recovery of Marines wounded in Saipan during World War II. An ambulance jeep pulls away from hospital building. Litter patients being unloaded from an ambulance. Wounded Marines on stretchers being placed aboard a landing craft at a beach. A hospital boat also comes for evacuation of the wounded Marines. Walking wounded move up the gangplank of hospital ship USS Bountiful (AH-9). Litter patients being hoisted aboard the USS Bountiful.
A U.S. Navy training film about the treatment and recovery of Marines wounded in Saipan during World War II. An aircraft carrier underway in the Pacific Ocean. Smoke rises from the coast of Saipan as battle continues. U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 aircraft as critically wounded Marines are being loaded aboard the aircraft. Marines aboard the aircraft. Aircraft taxis and takes off for Honolulu. Litter patients being loaded aboard a PB2Y Coronado flying boat. Fruit and juice crates being loaded aboard an aircraft. U.S. flag flies aboard a ship.
The natural beauty of Pagsanjan Falls in Cavinti, Laguna province (near Manila), Philippines. View of the Talahib Falls, the first waterfall encountered by boat riders after passing through Pagsanjan Gorge. A boat sails down rapid waves at the Pagsanjan River. Violent waves of the Pagsanjan River. A boat reaches the Pagsanjan Gorge. Boat sailing in more peaceful waters.
Pedestrians and transport in Manila, Philippines. Pedestrians, carabao, supply carts and tranvía trams cross over the Puente de España connecting the Binondo and Santa Cruz districts of Manila. A tranvía tram, cars and horse-drawn calesas moving on Escolta Street, the business center of Manila.
As film opens, Brigadier General William H. Rupertus, Assistant Commander of the First Marine Division (on the left) and Major General Alexander McCarrell "Sandy" Patch (in the center) Commander of the U.S. Army 23rd Infantry Division (the Americal Division) and his Assistant Commander, U.S. Army Brigadier General Edmund Sebree, are seen looking at a map on Guadalcanal, during World War 2. Rupertus converses with Patch and shakes his hand. He then shakes hands with Sebree, as both of them laugh at some comment made. General Sebree salutes General Rupertus, who returns his salute, and the three of them walk away. Close up of General Patch, posing for the camera. He fastens the chin strap on his steel helmet and then releases it. Closeup of General Rupertus, posing for the camera.
Japanese kamikaze suicide pilot divers attack hospital ship USS Comfort (AH-6), during action off Okinawa, Japan. Damaged USS Comfort. A sign : 'U.S. Navy ship, USS Comfort'. Wounded nurses and casualties are carried and transfered to a van. Burial services are held at a military cemetery on Guam: coffins draped with the flags of the United States are carried to the cemetery. The nurses who treated the casualties shown mourning. The flag draped coffins. Graves of the Americans and the flag of the United States at the Guam cemetery. (World War II period).
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