EVACUATION OF WOUNDED FROM KOREA Reel 2 · Part 2

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Summary: Scenes in Korea and Japan. Air evacuation of wounded -- examination and treatment in hospitals -- Al Jolson performances. Street scenes in Korea showing damaged buildings, U.N. troops, etc. (Shot list to follow.) Reel 1: Caption Sheet Date: Sept. 15, 1950. MS Al Jolson giving a performnnce for hospitalized soldiers at Tokyo General Hospital. Shots of Jolson and the patients. MS Wounded soldiers (33) being taken off a C-54 at Hanida AFB and put in ambulances to be taken to Tokyo Gen. Hospital. Personnel have just arrived directly from battle zone K-9. MS Interior of ambulance, stretchers along the side. INT Patients being removed from a C-54. MC An officer watching the unloading of wounded. Caption Sheet Date: Sept. 22, 1950. MC: Al Jolson getting out of a C-47 in Japan and being greeted by Brig. Gen. Kelly. INT Wounded soldiers inside a C-54. MC Busses being used as ambulances. INT Wounded being carried into the receiving room of Tokyo General Hospital and being questioned. Caption Sheet: no date given. CS Wounded soldiers reading a newspaper. MS Wounded being loaded into C-54 at Hanida AFB, Japan. MS C-54 taxiing. INT Bus ambulance. Wounded being taken out of ambulance and into a receiving room. CU Sign: "Tokyo Army Hospital." MC A ramp forr unloading of C-46. Sign, "374th Troop Carrier Wing, Hospital Evacuation". Tachikawa Air Base. MS Loading wounded into an ambulance (several shots). INT Ambulance on trip to hospital. MS Wounded man on rollaway table being taken to the wards. Reel 2: Caption Sheet Date: Sept. 22, 1950. MLS C-47s parked on an airfield in Japan. CU Sign: "Al Jolson, Accompanied by Harry Akst". Caption Sheet: no date given. MS Wounded being taken out of an ambulance and being loaded into a C-54. MS Ambulances beside a C-54. Caption Sheet Date: Oct. 3, 1950. Seoul, Korea. Korean civilians walking along street. CU Korean children. MS Damaged buildings (several shots); North Korean prisoners sitting on the ground; Korean civilians on the streets; a platoon of Koreans near a damaged building; shell crater; Korean civilians on street; a road blockade on one of the streets. CS Four soldiers beside a building (Associated Press Bldg). LS Looking thru a doorway past a gate at civilians in the streets. INT A large room, charts placed in order (interior of R.R. station used as Governmental assembly office). MS Damaged buildings in Seoul. CS Korean shoe cobbler. MC Korean civilians on the streets (several shots). MS Damaged buildings. MS U.N. troops on trucks. CU A Korean civilian with an American flag. CU A destroyed home -- civilians cleaning up debris; an old Korean man walking along the street. MC A destroyed building. Reel 3: Caption Sheet Date: Sept. 15, 1950. CU Al Jolson singing at Tokyo Gen. Hospital. CS Patients listening to Jolson. CS Patients clapping. MS Tokyo Army Hospital entrance. CU Sign, "Tokyo Army Hospital". CS Jolson and Akst getting out of a staff car; Jolson running to the center of the court yard; Jolson talking. Caption Sheet Date: Sept. 31, 1950, Korea. CU Sign, "D&C Co., 1st Med. Battalion, 1st Marine Division." MS Jeeps in front of a building. MC Marine helicopter landing, and a wounded marine being unloaded. MS A medical building -- 1st Marine Division Hospital. CS Wounded men on the porch of the building; a wounded man being treated and examined. CS Wounded being put onto a jeep for transfer to Air Evacuation center. Capt. Sheet Date: Oct. 1, l950. CS Wounded being loaded into a C-54. LS C-54 taking off. MC Wounded being unloaded from an ambulance and taken into hospital; being examined and partially treated. Capt. Sheet Date: Sept. 19, 1950. MS Wounded being unloaded from a C-46 at Tachikawa Air Base. Caption Sheet Date: Sept. 15, 1950. MC: Ambulances near a C-54. Wounded being unloaded. Ambulances leaving after loading of wounded. Caption Sheet Date: Sept. 22, 1950. MS Al Jolson getting out of a C-47 and walking across the ramp to waiting staff car. Good (Orig Neg)

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Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations

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Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities