Air Evacuation of Wounded U.S. Troops WWII Documentary “Perishable Rush”

Air Evacuation of Wounded U.S. Troops WWII Documentary “Perishable Rush”

Made in 1945 by the U.S. Treasury Department, PERISHABLE RUSH shows how the Army Air Forces during World War II flew wounded men from Pacific battle areas to mobile army surgeons hospitals, hospital ships, and finally major hospitals and eventually home towns in the United States. Uses a mix of actuality footage and fictional reenactments to follow a soldier from being wounded in action, cared for by medics on the battlefield, undergoing surgery in a mobile hospital near the front lines, recuperating in Guam, being shipped back to the United States, and convalescing in hospital near the soldier’s home town. The film ends with a plea to buy bonds as part of the Victory Loan.