Doctors operate on a soldier's arm, likely in Weymouth, England on 19 June 1944
Gift in Memory of Allan Voluck
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Doctors operate on a soldier's arm. Official caption: "ETO HQ 44 5287 Lynch 19 June. Credit---Signal Corps Photo. An American soldier, wounded on a beachhead in France, is operated on at a field hospital somewhere in England before being sent to a general hospital for recuperative treatment. 50th Field Hospital." Likely Weymouth, England. Censored on 21 June 1944. Passed for publication without censorship restrictions by SHAEF Field Press Censor on 14 May 1945.
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"1944-06-19"
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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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Weymouth
Latitude:
50.600
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-2.467
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
War casualties--England
Surgery--England