https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/6c43c715-4aad-40fb-88b4-749675821c2f Browse our products on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2YILTSD Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join This 1957 US Air Force film was produced by Herbert Kerkow Inc. and looks at the role of the Military Air Transport Service (MATS), which was established during WWII. It shows how wounded are quickly able to receive the best treatment in the U.S. through rapid aerial evacuation and which routes they take. It also focuses on the personnel needed to make this happen. It ends by focusing on the continued importance of the service beyond WWII, with the same routes used during the Korean War as well. 0:08 different military personnel being treated at St. Albans Naval Hospital in New York, 1:03 a man in uniform explaining a map showing the military’s hospital centers, 1:46 map showing evacuation route network of the Military Air Transport Service 2:34 a wounded man being visited by doctors at the 97th General Hospital in Frankfurt, Germany, 3:37 the patients being loaded onto a Boeing C-97 transport, 4:25 Boeing C-97 taking off from Frankfurt, 4:40 flight nurses ensuring that the patients are supplied, 5:27 patients playing a game of checkers, 6:17 cockpit receives a message and need to change course to Stephenville in Newfoundland, 6:54 C-97 on the ground and being unloaded in Stephenville, 7:28 a patient being handed over to the flying crew, 7:53 medical crew taking care of patients on board, 8:29 C-97 lands at Westover Air Force Base, 8:53 the flight crew hands over the patients to a flight surgeon, 9:12 a DC-3 flying, 9:38 a map showing the network of the air evacuation service in the US, 9:58 combat footage from the Korean War, 10:49 wounded soldiers being loaded onto a DC-3, 11:23 doctors taking care of patients in military hospitals, 12:07 a soldier being released from the hospital and kissing his girlfriend, 12:37 “The End” produced by Herbert Kerkow Inc. New York City 1957. The Military Air Transport Service (MATS) was activated on 1 June 1948. MATS was a consolidation of the Navy's Naval Air Transport Service (NATS) and the Air Force's Air Transport Command (ATC) into a single joint command. It was discontinued in 1966 as a result of the demands imposed by the Vietnam War, and superseded by the Air Force's Military Airlift Command (MAC) as a separate strategic airlift command. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD and 2k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsLqCgi17s8 Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:28:28 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/6c43c715-4aad-40fb-88b4-749675821c2f All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.