Troop Train (1943) U.S. Office of War Information

[DashingDan]

WW2-era short film that shows, among other things, the loading of (US Army) light armored vehicles, trucks & motorcycles onto flats. Run time 13 minutes.

http://www.archive.org/details/TroopTra1943

[arizonachris]

Awesome! Thanks, Dan. (that's one heck of a way to take a shower!)

[DashingDan]

Hehheh, yeah it sure is. It really was a different world back then. I remember reading that most men from that period saw a doctor for the first time in their lives when they were inducted into the military.

[kin3]

Hehheh, yeah it sure is. It really was a different world back then. I remember reading that most men from that period saw a doctor for the first time in their lives when they were inducted into the military.

My dad was in WWII. We lived on a farm and I asked him what people did for doctors before WWII and he said if it was really serious they would send for the doctor but the person usually died before the doctor arrived. Used a horse and buggy for a ten to twenty mile trip to get doctor and same back.

[DashingDan]

I bet that's true for people all across the country, on and off the farm. And through the Depression years there were probably a heck of a lot of people who just had no way to pay for any kind of medical services, unless they could trade goods or labor for it.

[Hawk]

Back in those days Doctors actually believed in and practiced by the Hippocratic Oath. They would, in a lot of instances, barter their time just to be able to help the sick, unlike today's medical industry - controlled by the insurance and pharmaceutical companies, and soon - possibly the Government.

[kin3]

Dad said when they got back from Japan they landed in San Francisco and had a big boy haul them home. It didn't stop for anything and blew the whistle constantly he said.