Surgery being performed in an evacuation hospital in Normandy, France on 16 June 1944

Gift in Memory of Allan Voluck
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Surgery being performed in an evacuation hospital. Official caption: "ETO HQ 44 5965 Goodman 16 June 44. Credit---Signal Corps Photo. Doctors working in surgery of an evacuation hospital, removing piece of shrapnel from wounded Yank. 128th Evac. Hosp. [Normandy] France." Censored by SHAEF Field Press Censor on 27 June 1944. Passed for publication without censorship by the American Expeditionary Forces Field Press Censor on 14 May 1945.

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"1944-06-16"
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Photographs from the service of Allan Voluck, who served as a photographer with the 3908th Signal Service Battalion in Europe.
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Normandie
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Medical aspects of war--France
Surgery--France
War casualties--France