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.
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