MEDICAL FACILITIES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA, TAN SON NHUT AB, VIETNAM Part 1

Description

Covers medical services available to personnel at 377th USAF Dispensary and activities of personnel assigned to the dispensary. (Shot list to follow.) 1) Shows ambulances parked outside dispensary. 2) Airman entering dispensary and picking up prescription at pharmacy desk. 3) Dentist working on officer's teeth. 4) Dr. Edwin M. Bradley (Maj), nurse and corpsman making rounds of ward, checking patients. 5) Corpsman using phorometer to check airman's eyes. 6) Corpsman taking blood sample. 7) Corpsman heating microscopic slides over Bunsen burner. 8) Corpsman stitching cut finger of Vietnamese worker. 9) Airman reporting for sick call, entering doctor's office and having wrist checked. 10) Corpsmen updating shot record and giving innoculations to personnel including Col Carvil A. Trudeau. 11) Scenes of Medical Evacuation UH-1D landing at heliport, wounded being placed in ambulance and ambulance leaving as helicopter takes off. 12) Corpsman filling prescription brought in by airman. 13) Corpsmen scrambling to ambulances. 14) Shows ambulance arriving at heliport. 15) Scenes of Medical Evacuation UH-1D landing and taking off from heliport. 16) Corpsman getting medical record from file and corpsman checking records. 17) Corpsman taking electrocardiograph reading of airman.

Collection

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

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities