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Penicillin Treatment; 555th Negro Paratroopers; Awards

Reel Number: 221431-04

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1944

Country: USA

Location: fort benning,Georgia,New York,Staten Island

TC Begins: 15:27:07

TC Ends: 15:33:54

Duration: 00:06:47

Penicillin Treatment; 555th Negro Paratroopers; Awards; Holloran General Hospital, Staten Island doctor gives injection to patient laying on stomach. Treating wound. Nurse gives patient shot in arm. CU syringe. Doctor treating deep wound in leg. (gory). 15:28:46 Black paratroopers of 555th (Triple Nickel) segregated unit adjusting parachutes on outdoor table; fit helmets, put on parachutes & safety chute & jog off to C-47. Boarding plane. 15:30:50 Jumping seen from inside plane. 15:31:26 Boarding plane. View from plane as chutes opening, drifting away. View from another plane. 15:32:08 Awards given by 3-star General. Four-star General George Marshall present. Family watches. Marshall pins Distinguished Service Cross on man. Hand shake. Kisses wife or ?? & mother. Medical Treatment; Medicine; Segregation; African-Americans; Award Ceremony; Hero; 1940s; 1944;

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