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Made in 1945 by the U.S. Treasury Department, PERISHABLE RUSH shows how the Army Air Forces during World War II flew wounded men from Pacific battle areas to mobile army surgeons hospitals, hospital ships, and finally major hospitals and eventually home towns in the United States. Uses a mix of actuality footage and fictional reenactments to follow a soldier from being wounded in action, cared for by medics on the battlefield, undergoing surgery in a mobile hospital near the front lines,...
Topics: Periscope Film, Stock Footage, World War II, War, Army, Red Cross, Blood, Sikorsky, R-4 Helicopter,...
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Made in 1945 by the U.S. Treasury Department, PERISHABLE RUSH shows how the Army Air Forces during World War II flew wounded men from Pacific battle areas to mobile army surgeons hospitals, hospital ships, and finally major hospitals and eventually home towns in the United States. Uses a mix of actuality footage and fictional reenactments to follow a soldier from being wounded in action, cared for by medics on the battlefield, undergoing surgery in a mobile hospital near the front lines,...
Topics: Periscope Film, Stock Footage, United States Force, World War II, Sikorsky, R-4 Helicopter, Army,...
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National Archives description "Summary: AVs shot through plexiglass of plane in flight, showing the snow-covered terrain and rugged countryside (Scenes are hazy. May be Chosin Res area.) Pan, supplies packed for parachute drop. In the bg, planes, C-119s, on Yongpo Strip. MS, supplies packed for airdrop, partly covered with snow. Pan, C-119 cargo aircraft at Yongpo (K-27). End of pan shows other planes. Walking wounded climbing aboard plane. Int of C-54. Men are carrying a wounded man, head...
Topics: Korean War, Korean War, 1950-1953, United States. Army, Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Aerial Operations,...
