A view taken from a hospital ship of two smaller ships loaded with Army nurses preparing to disembark at 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. A view taken from a large ship of two smaller ships loaded with Army nurses preparing to disembark on Cape Gloucester. "251st Station Hospital nurses disembark at Cape Gloucester, New Britain." Cape Gloucester, New Britain. August 1944
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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
Hospital ships--American--New Britain