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Franklin Hofele with Facial Wounds

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Description: Marine Franklin Hofele sits aboard the USS "Samaritan" with injuries.
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Two Doctors with Wounded Man

Date: 02 1945
Description: Two doctors attend to a wounded man on a stretcher in Iwo Jima.
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Flight Nurse in Training

Date: 1945
Description: Flight nurse student checking on two patients sleeping in bunks.
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Navy Doctors Performing Surgery

Date: 1945
Description: Three male medical personnel operate on a wounded soldier while a female medic administers anaesthetic.
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Flight Nurses Training in Anoxia Chamber

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Description: Flight nurses wearing leather suits, hoods, and oxygen masks during training in an anoxia chamber.
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WWII Red Cross Worker

Date: 03 1945
Description: 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 b...
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Wounded on the USS Samaritan

Date: 1945
Description: A badly wounded Sergent Frank W. Mrocykowski resting aboard the USS Samaritan. His head and eye are bandaged.
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Medical Personnel Tending to Wounded Soldier

Date: 04 1945
Description: Two medics tend to a wounded soldier laying on a cot at a field hospital at Okinawa.
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Field Hospital, Okinawa

Date: 1945
Description: J.H. Price and another medic administer fluids to a wounded soldier through an intravenous tube at a field hospital in Okinawa.
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Doctor Tends to Wounded Man

Date: 02 1945
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.
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Wounded Marine

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Description: Private first class, John W. Hood being tended to on the deck of the USS Samaritan. Hood suffered an abdominal wound in combat on Iwo Jima.
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Soldier Stacking Ammunition

Date: 1942
Description: A soldier stacks ammunition for a coastal gun in Panama near a stone wall. The soldier is being handed a case of ammunition. He is wearing a helmet and pan...
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Injured Marine After Treatment

Date: 1945
Description: Private first class, John W. Hood, wearing dogtags smiles after a blood transfusion on the USS Samaritan in Iwo Jima. He is bandaged and is holding ...
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Lieutenant Commander Aboard USS Relief

Date: 04 1945
Description: Lieutenant Commander J.C. Server, from the United States Navy Reserve, poses for a photograph aboard the USS Relief in the China Sea. He is wearing ...
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Smiling Wounded Soldier

Date: 1945
Description: Second Lieutenant Louis Connick smiling for a photograph aboard USS Samaritan, a hospital ship. He is lying in a bed and holding a cigarette. He is ...
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Soldier in Shower

Date: 1942
Description: A soldier from the 14th Infantry taking a shower with his pants on at a military base in Panama. The soldier is shirtless and has his arms raised behind hi...
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Flight Nurse with Wounded Soldier

Date: 1945
Description: Flight nurse, Gwen Jensen, with Private first class George Berier. Berier's head is wrapped in gauze, and he is preparing to take medicine. Jensen is weari...
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Flight Nurse on Plane with Wounded

Date: 1945
Description: Flight nurse, Gwen Jensen, on a plane with wounded soldiers. Jensen is wearing a jumpsuit. There are stretchers attached to the sides of the plane with wou...
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Nurse Feeding Wounded Man

Date: 1945
Description: A nurse aboard the USS Samaritan feeding a wounded soldier. The man is sitting up in bed as the nurse is raising a fork full of food to his mouth. T...
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Wounded Soldier Returned to United States

Date: 10 01 1945
Description: Private First Class George Bebbington, who was wounded in Iwo Jima, resting at the St. Albans Naval Hospital in the United States. He is smiling and relaxi...

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