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| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | 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 J... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | At Iwo Jima Airfield #1 Gwen Jensen, a flight nurse, talks with wounded Marines who are about to be evacuated by airplane. Mount Surabachi, from which the ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Coast guardsmen shuttle landing craft back and forth from the anchorage to the beach of Eniwetok Atoll, bringing in fighters and s... |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Corporal William (Bill) Fenton lays badly wounded, waiting for medical treatment. There is a note on his shirt that reads "urgent." Fenton survived the inj... |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | A marine from the USS "Samaritan" lays on a stretcher with his eyes bandaged. |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Two doctors attend to a wounded man on a stretcher in Iwo Jima. |
| Date: | 02 01 1945 |
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| Description: | Axel Olson, father of Sgt. Truman O. Olson, deceased, receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor from Col. W. Lutz Krigbaum on behalf of his son, who was k... |
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| Description: | Wounded soldiers are being loaded onto a hospital ship in Iwo Jima. |
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| Description: | Deck of the hospital ship USS Samaritan at sea. There are various forms of bedding and mattresses airing out on the railings and on the deck. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of men loading a wounded soldier onto a hospital ship. |
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| Description: | Wounded soldiers are led from the USS Samaritan, a hospital ship. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Marines, killed in action, lie on stretchers covered with ponchos on the beach at Iwo Jima. Four marines attend to the dead. Tents, military boats, and an ... |
| Date: | 05 19 1945 |
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| Description: | Colonel Robert S. Allen, photographed in Germany only a few days after being wounded and captured by the Germans. It was a German surgeon who amputated his... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Colonel Robert S. Allen, a well-known journalist before World War II, lost his arm while on active duty in Europe. He is seated here with Dr Anton Dvorak, ... |
| Date: | 05 30 1952 |
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| Description: | Two members of the Oregon Veterans of Foreign Wars drill team and some of the crowd gathered at Forest Hill Cemetery during services to dedicate a marble m... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of wounded soldiers being transported to the USS "Samaritan". |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Wounded men are laying in a foxhole in Iwo Jima waiting to be moved to another location. |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Lt. Commander Leonard (Leo) Thelen, Commanding Officer of the hospital, taking the pulse of a Marine line officer whose legs have been injured by shrapnel. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A badly wounded Marine suffers with an abdominal injury in Iwo Jima. A medic is sitting near him checking his identification tag. |
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| Description: | Marine Franklin Hofele sits aboard the USS "Samaritan" with injuries. |
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