George Kritzman narrates his journey back from a hill in Korea after being wounded out of service in this documentary short subject.
For 1951, with its dry recitation of facts, this must have been a shocker in the movie theaters. The elaborate mechanism of getting a wounded soldier from the battlefield to home is portrayed for the first time I know of. I believe it includes the earliest mention of Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals in cinema, eighteen years before M.A.S.H. hit the movie screens.
Most significantly, it made clear the process of the return and the fact that it did not end when the plane touched down. Veteran's Administration budgets went up and my mother spent twenty years as a volunteer at these hospitals.
For 1951, with its dry recitation of facts, this must have been a shocker in the movie theaters. The elaborate mechanism of getting a wounded soldier from the battlefield to home is portrayed for the first time I know of. I believe it includes the earliest mention of Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals in cinema, eighteen years before M.A.S.H. hit the movie screens.
Most significantly, it made clear the process of the return and the fact that it did not end when the plane touched down. Veteran's Administration budgets went up and my mother spent twenty years as a volunteer at these hospitals.