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WWII Red Cross Worker
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Betty Sullivan, a Red Cross worker, serves coffee in the interrogation room at Kobler Field, Saipan, for a B-29 flight crew that had just returned from a bombing mission. This photograph is one of a large of number of studies taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle during the latter stages of the war in the Pacific.
March 1945
Chapelle, Dickey, 1919-1965
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Red Cross Worker Serves Coffee
March 1945
Betty Sullivan, a Red Cross Worker, serving coffee and talking with B-29 crew at Kobler Field in Saipan. Sullivan is reaching for a large coffee pot and is surrounded by the men in their uniforms. ...
Conversational Therapy with Soldier
1945
Martha Pratt, assistant field director at the Red Cross hospital in Saipan, participates in conversational therapy with a soldier wounded in Iwo Jima. Pratt is sitting facing the soldier, and is we...
TAG Operations, WWII
March 1945
TAG operations on Falalop Island in the Pacific. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle during the latter stages of the war in the Pacific.
148th General Hospital
March 1945
Three women getting water at a reservoir in the 148th General Hospital compound at Saipan. Several raised tents can be seen in the background.
Iwo Jima Medical Facilities
March 1945
Medical facilities, Iwo Jima plus nine. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle in the aftermath of the landing at Iwo Jima.
Nurse Teaching Saipan Internees
March 1945
United States Army nurse, Mary Harrington, teaches female internees in Saipan, gathered outdoors in the grass with Saipan women. Harrington is smiling and holding a booklet. She is wearing a nurses...
