The Chief of Surgery of the 251st Station Hospital double checks the medical instruments available to him and his staff on 15 August 1944 at Cape Gloucester, New Britain
U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph, Gift of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, from the collection of the National WWII Museum
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The Chief of Surgery of the 251st Station Hospital double checks the medical instruments available to him and his staff. "Instrument cabinets, surgical stock room of 251st Station Hospital, New Britain" and on reverse "SWPA-SigC-44-3977 Aug. 15, 1944 Instrument cabinets in surgical stock room (251st StaHosp, Cape Gloucester, New Britain) are inspected by Maj. Frank"Chief of Surgery, of Inde" 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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Hospitals--New Britain
Medical personnel--American--New Britain