Seabee and ambulance outside small hospital tent. Leyte, Philippine Islands. c. 1945

Gift of Will Green
Description: 

Photograph. Seabee and ambulance outside small hospital tent. Personal caption on photo front: "Emergency hospital - Tacloban, P.I." and on”reverse: "First tent up. Sick boy, ambulance and first casualty. Huston EM2/c fell out of coconut tree while trying to show a native how to climb up for nuts!"”Leyte, Philippine Islands. 1944-45

Image Information

Donor: 
Will Green
Accession Number: 
2010.338.139
Date: 
1944
1945
Location: 
Hometown: 
Branch: 
Theater of Service: 
Unit: 
64th Naval Construction Battalion
Campaign / Event: 
POW / KIA: 
Topical Subjects: 
Medical equipment & supplies--Philippines
Collection Level: 
Items from the service of Lieutenant Commander William Ross Brown. Brown trained at Camp Peary in Williamsburg, Virginia from 1943-1944 with the 64th Naval Construction Battalion before being shipped to the Pacific Theatre. Brown spent most of his time overseas in the Philippines, though he did visit Okinawa. Collection includes over 100 photographs, personal and military correspondence, newsletters, and insignia.
Geography: 
Leyte
Latitude: 
10.833
Longitude: 
124.917
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Medical equipment & supplies--Philippines