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WWII - Color, 1944, Saipan: Fighting; Field Hospital & Wounded Arrival, Chow-line

Reel Number: H1368-07

Color: Colour

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1944

Country: Northern Mariana Islands,USA

Location: Garapan,Saipan

TC Begins: 10:43:27

TC Ends: 10:51:16

Duration: 00:07:49

WWII - Color, 1944, Saipan: Fighting; Field Hospital & Wounded Arrival, Chow-line Pan men advance across hillside, huge smoke column BG (dark). Explosions, smoke rising. 10:44:15 Heavy tank fires-, marines away from smoking building . Tank w/ heavy smoke beyond. 10:44:47 CU Marine disarms Japanese aerial bomb; bomb removed & loaded in truck. 10:45:39 CU pistol beside illegible slate. 10:45:43 MS Wrecked building. 10:46:00 MS 2nd Div. field hospital bldg, heavily damaged, marines standing by jeep, one w/ bandaged face. 10:46:19 MS Arriving ambulance jeeps come in. 10:46:33 MS Jeep passes towing trailer w/ wounded. MS Patients checked in. Men in & out under Receiving sign. CU Jeep ambulance passes, it backs up to hospital. Wounded unloaded on litter. 10:48:20 MS Patients in first-aid tent. 10:48:35 MS Patients in chowline. 10:50:02 Marines advance into Garapan, shooting rifles. 10:50:17 Out of focus. 10:50:33 Heavy fire & flame thrower working (good). Explosion set off. 10:50:59 Tank fires. WW2; Invasion; Marines; Daily Life; Injured; Wounded; Fighting; NOTE: Good color & subject.

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