MOBILE FIELD HOSPITAL [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: MOBILE FIELD HOSPITAL [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: AYY 382/3/2
  • Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: British, German and American wounded at the US Army's 48th Surgical Hospital at Feriana, Tunisia.
  • Description: American patients being fed in Ward 2. German prisoners in bed by the fireplace with a guard standing by, his back to the camera. An American patient drinking coffee. Another American is helped to eat by a nurse. Panning shot of the ward. In another ward Sergeant John Mauroni (wounded by an 88mm shell) receives the Purple Heart from the Commanding Officer of the hospital Major F C Mackenbrock. This is the shock ward containing patients needing blood transfusions.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1943-03-31
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company) Black, A W (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Mauroni, John (person) Mackenbrock, F C (person) United States Army, 48th Surgical Hospital (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Feriana, Tunisia (geography) Tunisia 1942-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event) North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 200 ft; Running time: 2 mins
  • Notes:
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    AYY 382/3/2

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