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WWII American Field Service AFS 1944
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keywords: WWII, Pacific Theater, American Field Service, AFS, Ambulance Drivers, Field Medics, India WWII, Burma WWII
Synopsis: American patriots who mostly for medical reasons were unable to join a US military service branch during WWII take a note from their AFS brethren of WWI volunteer to be ambulance drivers and medics for the British and find themselves on the frontlines of some of the toughest fighting of WWII...(read more)
- Date: 1944
- Duration: 00:06:05
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: India, Burma
WWII American Field Service AFS 1944
All volunteer group of 1,000 American men serving in WW2 who were either discharged or not allowed to enlist in the U.S. military for mostly medical reasons. Film shows AFS soldiers serving as British Ambulance drivers and assisting in field medical operations.
Shot List:
00:09:55
Disembarking train in Bombay with locals carrying bags and travel items on their heads
00:10:13
Arriving at British headquarters in Bombay
00:10:42
Departing AFS units driving ambulances 2,000 miles across India to the Burma front
00:11:31
Arrival at post on the Burma Front against the Japanese. Scenes include local villagers, elephants carrying construction materials, building air raid cliff trenches and bunkers, stretchers loading wounded personnel into transport vehicles
00:13:03
With the threat of the base being overrun, AFS volunteers destroy all equipment that could be of use to the Japanese enemy soldiers
00:13:28
Evacuation of the base to air transport
