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Blood Transport

Date: 03 1945
Description: Loading crates of blood at Falalop Island. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle that document the care of the wounded...
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Wounded Marine in Iwo Jima

Date: 02 1945
Description: A marine from the USS "Samaritan" lays on a stretcher with his eyes bandaged.
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Iwo Jima Medical Facilities

Date: 03 1945
Description: 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 J...
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Hospital Kitchen

Date: 02 1945
Description: Two men make coffee in a ramshackle hospital kitchen, which consisted of a single, improvised burner. The grill is the innards of a human blood shipping ca...
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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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Flight Nurse in Training

Date: 1945
Description: Flight nurse student checking on two patients sleeping in bunks.
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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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Loading Wounded onto Ship

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Description: Wounded soldiers are being loaded onto a hospital ship in Iwo Jima.
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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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Loading Wounded Soldier onto Ship

Date: 1945
Description: Overhead view of men loading a wounded soldier onto a hospital ship.
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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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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 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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148th General Hospital

Date: 03 1945
Description: Three women getting water at a reservoir in the 148th General Hospital compound at Saipan. Several raised tents can be seen in the background.
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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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Hospital Ship USS Samaritan

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Description: Deck of the hospital ship USS Samaritan at sea. There are various forms of bedding and mattresses airing out on the railings and on the deck.
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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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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

Date: 02 1945
Description: Corporal William (Bill) Fenton lays badly wounded, waiting for medical treatment. There is a note on his shirt that reads "urgent." Fenton survived the inj...

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