Air evacuation of casualties on Okinawa, Japan by the 163rd Liaison Squadron. L-5B's land on extremely narrow road near Itoman, which serves as a makeshift airstrip. First Medical Battalion personnel place U.S. Marine causualties aboard Stinson L-5B aircraft. Several L-5Bs are seen landing, having wounded placed on board, and taking off again. Man with signal flag directs landings. One L-5B is seen being pushed backwards to the patient loading area, after landing. A wounded Marine on a stretcher is fastened into the aircraft which then takes off.
Air evacuation of Marine causualties from narrow road, near Itomen, Okinawa in 1945 during World War 2. A Stinson L-5B Sentinel ambulance aircraft of the 163rd Liaison Squadron lands and rolls past a flagman and waiting Marine with arm wound. View of the wounded Marine inside the airplane. View of L-5B taking off and in flight. Wounded Marine on stretcher being loaded on an L-5B and another being taken, on a stretcher, from an ambulance and loaded on an L-5B.
Japanese attack on United States Navy gunboat USS Panay anchored in the Yangtze River at Nanjing (Nanking), China. Ship crew and others evacuate the United States ship Panay after a Japanese air attack. Men transfer onto barges and pull away. Men jump into the river. Japanese aircraft in flight. Bullet marks on the ship. Barges approach the coast and views of the Panay sinking slowly in the background. Men unload their belongings on the shore. Gradually the ship sinks.
United States submarine Nautilus in the Arctic region. Ice scattered on the surface of the sea. Starboard side of the United states submarine Nautilus as it pushes against solid ice. Men at the bow of the submarine as a sea diver descends to check the bow of the submarine. Men on bow tend air hose and lines to the diver underwater. Bubbles on the water surface. The diver pops to the surface and comes along side. He climbs up the ladder and comes aboard. His helmet is removed. Men move onto the deck of the submarine as it moves in an area covered with pieces of ice. Water washes the stern of the submarine as it pitches up and down in the broken ice.
United States submarine Nautilus during an expedition in the Arctic region. Engine room of Nautilus. A man in the engine room releases lever to operate the shaft. Two rubber air hoses hang from the bulkhead. A technician secures Nansen bottle to a rack on the wall in submarine. He checks the bottle and takes down notes. Sir Hubert Wilkins and a man work on a pipe in the submarine as a line is attached to the pipe.
United states submarine Nautilus in the Arctic region during a polar expedition. Ice floats on surface of the water. A man at the bow of the submarine Nautilus is pulled aboard with a line. Two other men help him. A diver being helped by a man in the engine room to put on his helmet. The diver goes under water as the man holds an air hose. The diver comes out and removes his helmet. A man puts a thermometer in the diver's mouth to record his body temperature.
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