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Flight Nurse and Wounded

Date: 03 1945
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 ...
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Marine Corps Reserve Recruits

Date: 08 10 1950
Description: Lieutenant Adrian Davis (left) of Tilton Terrace, a medical officer of the Madison Marine Corps Reserve, is shown giving an injection to new recruit, Pfc. ...
Poster

The More You Help, the Quicker I'll be Back

Date: 1943
Description: Office of Civilian Defense Design No. 9, "The Marine." The poster features a wounded marine sitting with a gun held in one hand, framed against a forest ba...
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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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Transporting Wounded Soldiers

Date: 1945
Description: Overhead view of wounded soldiers being transported to the USS "Samaritan".
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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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Medic and Wounded Marine

Date: 1945
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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Franklin Hofele with Facial Wounds

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Description: Marine Franklin Hofele sits aboard the USS "Samaritan" with injuries.
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Wounded Marine on Ship Deck

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Description: A wounded Marine lays on a stretcher on the deck of the USS "Samaritan" in Iwo Jima. The man later died.
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Wounded Marine on Ship Deck

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Description: Marine Roy Elgin Jones lays wounded on the deck of the USS "Samaritan" in Iwo Jima. A medic sits next to him filling out a card on a clipboard.
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Madison Soap Box Derby Sponsor

Date: 07 12 1952
Description: Carlos Bast (right) stands with representatives of his two sponsors for the Madison Soap Box Derby. J.J. Werner and Jack Meyers of Prescription Pharmacy of...
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Divison Surgeon Okinawa

Date: 1945
Description: Captain Don Knowlton, a U.S. Marine division Surgeon, posing for a photograph outdoors in Okinawa, Japan. He is wearing fatigues and a helmet and is standi...
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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 Wounded

Date: 1945
Description: 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, an...
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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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Wounded Men on the USS Samaritan

Date: 1945
Description: Private First Class George Pantaloni in a plaster cast aboard the USS Samaritan. He is lying in a cot and smiling. Behind him are more cots with oth...
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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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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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Laughing Wounded Soldier

Date: 10 01 1945
Description: 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...
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Wounded Marine on Phone

Date: 1945
Description: A woman with a badge marked "Bell Telephone System" is holding a telephone cradle while handing a wounded marine a telephone receiver. The marine is lying ...

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