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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

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.

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22 November 1999