Several Army nurses prepare to disembark onto Cape Gloucester, New Britain in 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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From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. Several Army nurses, most in turbans or head wraps, prepare to disembark onto Cape Gloucester. "251st Station Hospital nurses disembark at Cape Gloucester, New Britain." Reverse: "Florence Sugar, Washington D.C. at companion war (Red Cross)." Cape Gloucester, New Britain. August 1944. Florence Sugar [Covey] is pictured in the foreground in the Red Cross uniform.
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1944-08-
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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
Ships--American--New Britain