Us Wounded Loaded Onto Planes (1944)

Unused / unissued material - date and locations unclear or unknown. Injured soldiers on stretchers are unloaded from a truck and put onto a DC3 aeroplane in an airfield. Blurred shot of the plane taking off. GIs sit around cooking pots on a fire. DC3 plane comes into land at an airfield. Medical trucks stand on the airfield. Aerial shots of coastline and ships on sea below us. Views of countryside as we come into for a bumpy landing. DC3s take off. More shots of wounded in stretchers being loaded onto planes. More aerial shots as we fly over sea. Stretcher cases tended to in the open air by medics. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont