Field Hospital Guadalcanal Solomons

During the making of HBO's THE PACIFIC, I served as a researcher with the duty of providing period film footage clips such as this one - shot on the same locations as the 10 part mini-series follows: Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

Now that the series is airing you might find these short clips interesting. I appolojize for the lack of audio, yet they were only intended as simple visual aids for the Prop and Art Departments. Nevertheless, by watching them you'll get an idea of what it was like in these remote island battlefield locations.

Here you see wounded are brought into a crude field hospital with palm frawns covering the top of the tent in hopes of hiding it from Japanese bombers. Wounded are then evacuated by Higgins boat-to be taken out to larger ships at sea which have proper operating theaters set up inside their massive hulls.

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