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The Army Nurse Reel 2

Reel Number: 221045-06

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1944

Country: Pacific,USA

Location: Pacific

TC Begins: 21:50:33

TC Ends: 21:59:15

Duration: 00:08:42

The Army Nurse Reel 2 Shows activities in the training and service of army nurses. Reel 2 depicts various nurses' assignments, showing work at the following kinds of hospitals: Field hospital. Sign ‘Evac. Hospital’ - Evacuation hospital - blood bank refrigerator - ambulances - patients loaded - hospital trains - patients loaded - INT hospital train caring for patients on stretchers. Evacuation by plane - patients loaded - flight nurse tending patients. 21:52:43 General hospital in Theatre of Operation - INT wards - nurses taking patient’s temperature - sterilising surgical equipment - drugs and surgical equipment. Over-crowded ward. 21:54:07 Stars entertaining troops - Gary Cooper on stage and meeting troops and nurses - commentary points out first nurse to land on Bougainville signing autographs for GIs. Army nurses v Army WACS at baseball game. Nurses off duty - tourists - playing golf - swimming. Nurses entering military hospital. 21:55:27 Hospital ship at sea - INT wards - patients with nurse. Statue of Liberty. Debarkation hospital, ambulances arriving. General hospital in US - wards - nurses with patients, washing hair, applying dressings, massage. 21:56:59 Gen. Clark decorates nurses. Shows nurses who were prisoners of war for three years. CU nurses smiling. 21:57:54 Superintendent of Army Nurse Corps, Col. Florence A. Blanchfield, asks the audience to buy victory bonds to finance the care of wounded servicemen. WWII. Pacific War. Female PoWs.

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