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"Surgical ward treatment at the 268th Station Hospital, Base A, Milne Bay, New Guinea. Left to right: Sgt. Lawrence McKreever, patient; 2nd Lt. Prudence Burns, ward nurse; 2nd Lt. Elcena Townscent, chief surgical nurse; and an unidentified nurse." |
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"Lt. Florie E. Gant tends a patient at a prisoner-of-war hospital somewhere in England." |
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"Hospital Apprentices second class Ruth C. Isaacs, Katherine Horton and Inez Patterson are the first Negro WAVES to enter the Hospital Corps School at National Medical Center, Bethesda, MD." |
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"Cmdr. Thomas A. Gaylord, USN (Ret'd), administers oath to five new Navy nurses commissioned in New York. Phyllis Mae Dailey, the Navy's first African-American nurse, is second from the right." |
