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Photo # NH 85669:  USS Consolation off the Korean coast, circa 21 December 1951

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- EVENTS -- The Korean War, 1950-1953 --

Logistics & Support Activities in Korea during 1951-1953 --
Hospital Ships in Korean Waters


This page features views of Hospital Ship activities in Korean Waters in 1951-53.

For additional views of logistics and support activities in Korea during 1951-53, see:

  • Logistics & Support Activities in Korea during 1951-1953.

    For broader coverage of Korean War logistics & support efforts, see:

  • Korean War Logistics & Support, 1950-1953.


    For a precis of our Korean War images, and links to more comprehensive pictorial coverage of other aspects of that conflict, see:

  • The Korean War, June 1950 - July 1953 -- Introductory Overview and Special Image Selection.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 98785

    USS Consolation
    (AH-15)

    At anchor in Sok Cho-Ri, Korea, on 15 December 1951.
    Sok Cho-Ri was on the east coast of Korea 50 miles below the North Korean border. The hospital ship markings consist of three red crosses connected with a stripe.

    Photographed by Lieutenant B. A. McLawhorn.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the U.S. Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 625 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 85669

    USS Consolation (AH-15)


    Off the Korean Coast, circa 21 December 1951, during the first air evacuation of casualties directly from the battlefield to a hospital ship. A U.S. Air Force Sikorski H-5 helicopter is landing on board.

    Courtesy of Mrs. Joel T. Boone, 1977.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 109KB; 740 x 600 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98786

    USS Consolation
    (AH-15)

    A Sikorski H-5 helicopter of the 3rd Air Rescue Squadron approaching the ship's newly-installed helicopter deck, circa December 1951.
    The helo was carrying litter patients on the last leg of an operation in which 37 wounded American and South Korean Marines were evacuated from an airstrip in north central Korea.

    Official U.S. Air Force Photograph, from the collections of the U.S. Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 114KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99085

    HMS Belfast
    (British Light Cruiser, 1939)

    In the channel at Pusan, Korea, 2 April 1952.
    USS Consolation (AH-15) is also present, beyond Belfast's bow.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 103KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: 80-G-K-12234 (Color)

    USS Consolation (AH-15)

    In the channel, bound for Inchon, Korea, 8 May 1952.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 118KB; 740 x 610 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: NH 98793

    USS Haven
    (AH-12)

    Receiving wounded from the front lines, while anchored off Inchon, South Korea, in August 1952.
    Note the Marine HRS-1 helicopter approaching the landing float to starboard. A second float was moored to port. These were replaced in late 1952 by a helo deck on the fantail.

    Photographed by R. J. Franks, CCGT-3702.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the U.S. Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 71KB; 740 x 620 pixels

     
    Photo #: 80-G-K-16519 (Color)

    USS Haven (AH-12)

    Anchored in Inchon harbor, Korea, 14 June 1953.
    Photographed by PHAN L.R. Dylina.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 615 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: NH 97065

    USS Repose (AH-16)


    "Shipmates look on as Albert Owen, Commissaryman Second Class, USNR, ... explains just how he baked and decorated this 100 pound birthday cake."
    "The birthday cake was in commemoration of the U.S. Navy Hospital Ship Repose. One year ago September 20 the 'Queen of the Orient' pulled into Pusan Harbor, Korea. Since that time she has handled 9,487 bed patients and uncounted thousands of out patients. The 782 bed hospital ship, besides her crew, carries 25 doctors, 30 nurses and 199 enlisted Navy corpsmen."
    This photograph and caption was released by Commander Naval Forces Far East under date of 24 September 1951.

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

    Online Image: 122KB; 600 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 97169

    USS Haven (AH-12)


    "Inchon's 'Haven' -- A Navy nurse assists in the tedious operation aboard the Navy hospital ship Haven. There are 23 nurses serving aboard the Haven."
    Photograph and caption were released by Commander Naval Forces, Far East, under date of 4 September 1952.

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

    Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 625 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 97141

    USS Haven (AH-12)


    "Once again tender hands reached for the stretcher while a Navy Chief Hospitalman holds the bottle of plasma. Casualties from the front lines are picked up almost immediately after wounds have been inflicted and rushed to the Haven for hospitalization and further treatment."
    Photograph and caption released by Commander Naval Forces, Far East, under date of 16 August 1952.
    Note name "N. Riecer" on shirt of the sailor in the foreground.

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

    Online Image: 112KB; 600 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 97188

    USS Consolation (AH-15)


    "Marine Hero Recovers aboard Hospital Ship Consolation -- Francisco Gonzales, PFC, USMC, ... finds medical aid and good treatment aboard the hospital ship USS Consolation. Gonzales was returned from the Communist Forces on April 7, 1953 and was received by Marine "E" Company Medical aid station. He was given first aid and flown by helicopter to the Consolation where he is being given the best of medical treatment from Hospitalman third class William H. Phillips ...."
    Photograph and caption were released by Commander Naval Forces, Far East, under date of 17 April 1953.

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

    Online Image: 99KB; 590 x 765 pixels

     

    For additional views of logistics and support activities in Korea during 1951-53, see:

  • Logistics & Support Activities in Korea during 1951-1953.

    For broader coverage of Korean War logistics & support efforts, see:

  • Korean War Logistics & Support, 1950-1953.


    For a precis of our Korean War images, and links to more comprehensive pictorial coverage of other aspects of that conflict, see:

  • The Korean War, June 1950 - July 1953 -- Introductory Overview and Special Image Selection.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.


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    Page made 27 August 2000
    New images added 28 September 2005