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Cpl. Rudolph E. Engstrom rests in a shell hole on Iwo Jima, holding a piece of shrapnel that wounded him.

Reel 1 stresses the emotional strain of combat, showing battle scenes. Psychoneurotics await evacuation; a psychiatrist interviews a soldier; and men exercise at a rehabilitation center.
Reel 2, combat fatigue cases are reconditioned by battle…

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
- Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card.
- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
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This rarely seen U.S. Navy film BATTLE FATIGUE DEALING WITH FEAR was produced during or just after WWII, and attempts to explain the condition known as "Battle Fatigue" or what we now describe as PTSD or Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. It was…

The USS Oklahoma is centered in the picture depicted as a dilapidated iron from following the profuse bombing by Japanese warplanes.

Bombing of Hong Kong by the 14th Air Force.