Main contributor: United States. Army Air Forces. / Date: 1945 / Genres: Nonfiction films. / Collection: IUL Moving Image Archive / Language: English

Date:: 1945
Main contributors:: United States. Army Air Forces.
Summary:: Shows how the Army Air Forces during World War II flew wounded men from Pacific battle areas to hospitals and 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, recuperating in Guam, being shipped back to the United States, and convalescing in hospital near the soldier's home town.

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