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Julia A. Hill, as a Nurse

Date: 1905
Description: Julia A. Hill, member of the Menomonie High School class of 1905, depicted as a nurse, attending to a wounded soldier. Part of a yearbook created by classm...
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Loading Wounded Soldier onto Ship

Date: 1945
Description: Overhead view of men loading a wounded soldier onto a hospital ship.
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Deck of USS Samaritan

Date: 1945
Description: View from the deck of the hospital ship, the USS Samaritan, at sea. There are other ships and a shoreline in the background.
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Wounded Men Disembarking from Hospital Ship

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Description: Wounded soldiers are led from the USS Samaritan, a hospital ship.
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General Ward at the United States Naval Hospital

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Description: Interior of the general ward at the United States Naval Hospital, established in 1834 on the original site of Fort Nelson. Patients sit in chairs or lie in...
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United States General Hospital

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Description: View of Ward 15 of the United States General Hospital No. 7, as designated by the surgeon-general in 1918. Intended for returning soldiers' physical recons...
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United States General Hospital

Date: 1920
Description: Interior of the United States General Hospital No. 7, as designated by the surgeon-general in 1918. Intended for returning soldiers' physical reconstructio...
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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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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 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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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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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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General MacArthur Greets a Soldier

Date: 12 14 1943
Description: Four Star General Douglas MacArthur greets Lieutenant Lyle Hershey of Lansing, Michigan, during a tour on Goodenough Island, in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea...
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Three Soldiers in Hospital Pajamas

Date: 1944
Description: Three soldiers in hospital pajamas gaze up at the sky. The middle soldier is on crutches, and the soldier on the left leans on a tent rope. A jeep, more te...
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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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