WWII - 1945, Okinawa: Medical Evacuation of Wounded. 22Apr45

WWII - 1945, Okinawa: Medical Evacuation of Wounded. 22Apr45 Medical personnel on DUKWs w/ medics flags. Large banner on poles w/ red cross, hospital tents behind,men relaxing throwing baseball. LS w/ several banners visible. MS w/ ship behind banner. 22:36:39 Ambulance arriving. 22:36:55 Hospital ship, walking wounded helped aboard from landing craft . Stretchers unloaded & carried up gangway. Bow of US Navy Hospital Ship Relief from small ship; wounded on stretchers w/ tags put on; unloading stretchers onto floating dock; lowered from dock into LCP landing craft . 22:39:10 Slate: 22Apr45, camera Sgt J. Du Bois. DUKW approaching floating dock, island in BG. Turning back canvas & unloading stretchers. POV DUKW to shore. Stretchers from ambulance into DUKW on land. 22:40:22 Slate: 22Apr45 same. DUKW slowly beach & into water, past ships offshore. 22:41:27 Slate: Same. DUKW alongside ship. 22:41:36 Intersection of two dirt roads, MP directing traffic & DUKW past, jeeps, trucks thru. MCU DUKW full of crates. CU sign: Ammo Dump B / King Street / 1176 Engrs Road Maintenance Begins. 22:42:37 Slate: same. Overhead of stretcher w/ wounded, leg in cast, unloaded from ambulance into truck or DUKW, blanket put under head. 22:43:43 Slate: same. POV from DUKW pst ships in harbor & to hospital ship; stretcher onto floating dock. 22:44:16 Pallet w/ crates of blood unloaded from ship; CU crate & markings. Men loading into DUKW. 22:44:50 Slate: same. POV on water in LCP, to hospital ship. View into LCP w/ wounded from ship, stretcher carried up gangway on side of ship & into interior. 22:45:57 View of DUKW leaving shore tents for beach. POV looking back of DUKW w/ wake, another following. Approaching floating dock w/ LCP tied to it & stretchers & walking wounded loaded into LCP. Overhead of man on stretcher in LCP. Heading to shore w/ four stretchers. GOOD MCU of crew. WW2; Ships; Medical Treatment; Injured;