WWII - 1944, Westward is Bataan, Aboard USS Hopewell (DD-681) Aitape Harbor, New Guinea, 22Apr44; Air Evacution Unit Stationed at 92nd Evacuation Hospital on OWI, Schouten Islands, 22Apr44

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - 1944 US Navy, Aboard USS Hopewell (DD-681) Aitape Harbor, New Guinea, 22Apr44 View from deck of ship’s stack, US flag on staff behind. ?? turns over camera. 22:55:59 LS DD on calm sea, pan to show other ships of fleet or convoy? 22:56:34 Men below decks loading 127mm ammunition into conveyor; pulling out of storage containers. 22:58:16 MCU Gun barrels uncovered. Officer seated at control panel w/ binoculars, fleet on horizon in distance. 22:59:03 MCU helmeted man at gun sight; another w/ binocular sight; another w/ telescope site. MCU hand on sheaf of papers. 22:59:59 MCU man at gun sight; sheaf of papers. 23:00:13 Title: New Guinea Evac Nurses Get Around. 23:00:16 Female nurse carrying case, w/ two GIs into building. Int. w/ woman & officer at desk. Officer at blackboard wipes off chalk information. Three Evacuation nurses entering barracks room seen from inside. One sits reading letter. 23:00:56 Two in civilians clothes washing out laundry under faucet in tub, Lux soap on shelf. LIne w/ drying clothes, nurses hang clothes. Ironing. 23:01:23 Nurses in shorts etc. out w/ dog on leash; across wooden bridge, play w/ dogs. 23:01:41 CU alarm clock, woman out of mosquito netting turns it off. 23:01:53 Nurses eating at communal mess table. Get up & leave; in office getting papers. 23:02:14 C-47 w/ light taking off. Aerial over bay, airbase. Landing seen from ground. Unload bundles / tents into truck. Nurse checking paperwork; ambulance backed up & men on stretchers into C47. Woman checks tags against papers. 23:03:09 C47 taking off in air. Interior w/ nurse attending men on stretchers, take temperatures, pulse. 23:03:34 C47 landing seen w/ ambulance in foreground & high mountains behind. LS unloading stretchers from ambulance, into C47. MS unloading C47 stretchers w/ men. WW2 Operation Hollandia; Navy Ship; Destroyer; NOTE: USS Hopewell provided shore bombardment, 22Apr44, during Aitape landing while w/ 7th Fleet. NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk