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USS Relief Surgery

Date: 04 1945
Description: View of the gloved hands of a pair of surgeons as they begin to operate on a patient in Japan. One person is holding a scalpel over a portion of an exposed...
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Flight Nurses during Aquatic Training

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Description: Six female flight nurses posing outdoors. The women are wearing bathing suits and holding life vests around their necks at the at Alameda Naval Air Strip d...
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Flight Nurses in Training Pool

Date: 1943
Description: Six female flight nurses in a swimming pool during aquatic training at the at Alameda Naval Air Strip. Four of the women are in a raft, and two women are i...
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Nurse Sleeping

Date: 04 1945
Description: A nurse sleeping at battle stations aboard the USS Relief in the China Sea. The nurse is wearing a jumpsuit and has a piece of cloth tied in her hai...
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Flight Nurse with Patient in Anoxic Chamber

Date: 1945
Description: A flight nurse in an anoxic faint chamber, used to simulate high altitude flying with little oxygen, placing an oxygen mask over a male patient's face. He ...
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Helicopter Evacuation of Wounded

Date: 1962
Description: U.S. helicopter evacuation of wounded Vietnamese fighter to hospital including treatment by U.S. service medics and corpsmen. A man with a bandaged head i...
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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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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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Soldiers at Vieques

Date: 1961
Description: Soldier in combat gear giving another a drink of water as treatment for symptoms of heat prostration at Vieques, Puerto Rico. A third soldier looks on in t...
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Sgt. Glen Meunier Wounded

Date: 06 15 1965
Description: U.S. paratrooper Sgt. Glen Meunier of Port Charlotte, Florida, laying on the ground next to a building after being shot through his right thigh by a rebel ...

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