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Remember These Faces R2 of 2

Reel Number: 220324-03

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1945

Country:

Location: Pacific

TC Begins: 02:20:24

TC Ends: 02:29:22

Duration: 00:08:58

Remember These Faces R2 of 2 Troops on landing craft approaching beaches in second wave w/ supplies of medical equipment, plasma, clean water, cases of supplies transported to battalion aid center. Wounded arrive at aid station - some suffering from combat fatigue, shell-shocked, CU faces. 02:21:37 Military equipment & trucks on the move. Japanese field hospital taken by US - shots showing unhygienic conditions - clean up operations / hospital laundry. Medics working in “laboratory“ - man using microscope. Water tanker as sprinkler to damp down dust around field hospital. Division hospital sign - injured carried on stretchers - receiving transfusions. Doctor scrubbing up - operation, anesthetist pouring ether onto cloth mask. Whole blood transfusion. Blood taken from comrades. (GOOD). 02:23:47 Second morning - eleven miles inland, tanks & military vehicles. Wounded evacuated on stretchers w/ jeeps as ambulances. Jeeps over pontoon docks, wounded carried to landing craft gently & transported to hospital transport ship, hoisted aboard, some walking wounded. 02:26:30 Navy air transport planes for emergency evacuations. Army planes used to transport wounded - interior men on stretchers. Hospital ship - decks crowded w/ wounded. Doctor & nurse do rounds on decks. Operating theater - various medical procedures. Wounded recuperating in sun on deck of ship. Various shots of injured. CU faces - Buy War Bonds appeal. The End. WWII Pacific Battles; Fighting; Medicine; Medical Treatment;

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