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Flight Nurse with Wounded
1945
Flight nurse, Gwen Jensen, wearing a jumpsuit and a cap, standing and waiting with near an airplane with marine Private First Class George Berier, left, and marine Corporal John H. Kerr, right, fro...
Wounded Marine in Iwo Jima
February 1945
A marine from the USS "Samaritan" lays on a stretcher with his eyes bandaged.
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.
Loading Wounded onto Ship
February 1945
Wounded soldiers are being loaded onto a hospital ship in Iwo Jima.
Laughing Wounded Soldier
October 1, 1945
Private First Class William Fenton, wounded in Iwo Jima, laughing after being returned to the United States, to St. Albans Naval Hospital. He is lying down in bed and has one arm behind his head an...
Flight Nurse and Wounded
March 1945
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 U.S. flag was first flown ten days before,...
