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This film about helping disabled veterans of World War II to help themselves back into civilian life was shot mostly at Bushnell General Hospital in Brigham City, Utah in 1945. It was produced by the National Association of Mutual Casualty Companies…
Scope & Content: Reel 1, Charles McGonegal, who lost both hands in World War I, uses hooks to shave, tie his shoestrings, and put on his vest and coat. The control of his artificial hands is explained. He adjusts various hooks to change their width…
This film on the rehabilitation of an injured soldier who lost his hands in action stars Harold Russell, the Academy Award-winning lead actor in "Best Years of Our Lives." In this film, Harold Russell plays an American soldier who lost his hands in a…
These brave men helped Franklin Roosevelt defeat the three dictators.
J.R. Farrar, amputee instructor, shot these scenes of amputee rehabilitation using the family 8mm movie camera. I apologize for the fuzzyness of the images, but this was in the…
J.R. Farrar, amputee instructor, shot these scenes of amputee rehabilitation using the family 8mm movie camera. I apologize for the fuzzyness of the images, but this was in the…
DOCUMENTARY: Veterans' hospital (Mason General Hospital, Brentwood, NY.) showing ten week treatment program for men with psychological problems stemming from combat; men enter the hospital, go through the orientation, admission, and evaluation…
An amputee patient and nurse at Bushnell General Military Hospital in Brigham City, UT during WWII.
Class C Pass for Bushnell General Hospital. Issued to Donald M. Canny. The pass is a small blue card printed with information about entitlements and priveledges to the bearer of the card. Donald's information is typewritten on the blanks of the card…
Small card of a bus schedule between various points in Brigham City - 6th North Main, City Hall, and Bushnell Hospital. Busses left every hour or so and the trip from one end to the other took 20 minutes. Cab prices and phone numbers on the reverse.
Small card of a bus schedule between various points in Brigham City - 6th North Main, City Hall, and Bushnell Hospital. Busses left every hour or so and the trip from one end to the other took 20 minutes. Cab prices and phone numbers on the reverse.…
Black and white photograph of Senator Truman and Colonel Hardaway at the orthopedic shop at Bushnell General Hospital in Brigham City, Utah.
An amputee veteran at Bushnell Hospital displays his new artificial leg
A WWII veteran at Bushnell General Military Hospital walks on a balance beam as part of his physical rehabilitation.
A WWII veteran at Bushnell General Military Hospital walks up and down stairs as part of his physical rehabilitation.
A WWII veteran at Bushnell General Military Hospital walks on uneven platforms as part of his physical rehabilitation.
A WWII veteran at Bushnell General Military Hospital walks through an obstacle course as part of his physical rehabilitation.
An amputee patient and nurse at Bushnell General Military Hospital in Brigham City, UT during WWII.
Photograph of paratroopers just before they took off for the initial assault of D-Day
A man with an artificial leg practices climbing stairs at Bushnell Hospital.
Black and white photograph of patients from Bushnell riding horses. There is a low wooden building to the left, and the gravel pit at the mouth of Wellsville Canyon can be seen in the background.
Still image from a black and white film strip of amputees playing ping pong. Games were part of vocational rehabilitation activities at the hospital, which specialized in treating soldiers with amputated limbs.
The telephone lounge at Bushnell General Hospital, Brigham City, Utah, where operators in another part of the room help service men place their calls.
A view of Bushnell Hospital looking northwest from the mess hall at the two-story ward buildings
Nurses look through microscopes in the Bushnell labs, probably at slides of wound cultures
Black and white photograph of Dr. Robert D. Smith shaking hands with the last patient to leave Bushnell General Hospital. Photo is taken outside building 15.
Black and white photograph of patients in front of a building at Bushnell. Side rather than straight-on angle. 1945. Includes one black patient.
Nurses gathered on the steps of a building at Bushnell Hospital
A view of the Bushnell parade grounds from the administration building
The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States was the forced relocation and incarceration during World War II of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry who lived on the Pacific coast in camps in the interior of the…
This video depicts the story of the Distinguished 100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Combat Regimental Team. The men in these units, comprised almost entirely of persons of Japanese ancestry, fought with uncommon bravery and valor against our…
A video explaining the rise of the Japanese Internment camp in America.
This rare film shows the training of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team of the United States Army. The 442nd was a regimental size fighting unit composed almost entirely of American soldiers of Japanese descent who volunteered to fight in World War II…
The United States Army Nurse Corps (AN or ANC) was formally established by the U.S. Congress in 1901. It is one of the six medical special branches (or "corps") of officers which – along with medical enlisted soldiers – comprise the Army Medical…
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt committed American forces to the Allied cause in World War II.
San Pedro, California April 1942. The last Redondo Beach residents of Japanese ancestry leaving by truck for relocation.
Awaiting orders to detrain at Camp Shelby, a quartet of Japanese-Americans swing out to the accompaniment of a Hawaiian ukulele
Japanese prisoners of war being guarded by Americans--probably in the Philippines
It's "Present arms!" for members of the 442nd Combat Team, Japanese-American fighting unit, as they salute their country's flag in a brief review held the day of their arrival at Camp Shelby, Miss.
Colored soldiers guard Hitler's "Her envolk." An answer to Nazi philosophy of master race. Members of a military police battalion guard prisoners of war at a camp somewhere in France.
Japanese funeral, 1930
Japanese study exhibit in a Box Elder High School classroom
Capt. Ezekia Smith, 370th Inf. Regt., 92nd Div., receives treatment at the 317th Collecting Station, for shell fragments in face and shoulders suffered near Querceta, Italy. Here, surgeon stitches the wound. Fifth Army, Pietrasanta Area, Italy.…
Back to a Coast Guard assault transport comes this Marine after two days and nights of Hell on the beach of Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands. His face is grimey with coral dust but the light of battle stays in his eyes.