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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97029

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"During the many long weeks of healing the patients must use wheelchairs and crutches until they learn how to walk with a synthetic limb. Shown is PFC Charles Moody of Institute, West Virginia, who was injured near Taegu, Korea, while serving with the First Cavalry Division."
Photograph was probably taken at Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington, DC. Quoted sentences are from the original caption, released with the photo on 1 February 1951.

Official U.S. Army Photograph, from the "All Hands" collection at the Naval Historical Center.

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14 October 1999