A nurse feeds a hospital ward full of wounded soldiers who lay in beds with mosquito nets above them at Cape Gloucester, New Britain on 15 August 1944
U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph, Gift of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, from the collection of the National WWII Museum
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A nurse brings food up the aisle of a hospital ward full of wounded soldiers who lay in beds with mosquito nets above them. "Patients in ward of 251st Station Hospital, New Britain. (Mosquito netting to protect from malaria.)" Cape Gloucester, New Britain. 15 August 1944
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08/15/1944
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Items from the service of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, consisting of photographs of the 161st Signal Photographic Company Combat Unit #10 which served on Espiritu Santos, Guadalcanal, New Britain, New Guinea, Noemfor, Leyte, Samar and Luzon.
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Gloucester, Cape
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Nurses--American--New Britain
Hospitals--New Britain