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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-K-14425 (Color)

Christmas decorating at a Naval Hospital

Ensign Audrey Etie, a Navy Nurse, and two patients decorate a small tree, circa 25 December 1944.
Seaman Second Class Robert S. Whitaker, a survivor of USS Rich (DE-695), sunk during the June 1944 Normandy invasion, is at left. Another Normandy veteran, Ship's Cook Third Class John Elliot Hunter, is at right.

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

Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 510 pixels

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Note that the original Ansco transparency's color has shifted significantly over the years.

 

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18 December 2003