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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 106290

USS Mercy
(AH-8)

Preparing to hoist aboard a patient in a stretcher off Mios Woendi, a small island near Biak off northwestern New Guinea, circa 1944-1945.
Note the other patients in the boat awaiting transfer.

Donation of Captain Stephen S. Roberts, USNR (Retired), 2008.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

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Image posted 17 April 2009