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USN 709032: Preparing for surgery calls for more than a doctor, October 1953

USN 709032: Preparing for surgery calls for more than a doctor, October 1953. Hospital Corpsman Second Class Eileen Paluzzi prepares the IV while Hospital Corpsman Third Class Maria A. Myers readies surgical equipment on board USNS George M. Goethals (T-AP-182). Photograph released October 26, 1953. Master Caption: Navy Accepts Women Volunteers for Duty on the High Seas. For the first time in history, the U.S. Navy has accepted volunteers for duty on the high seas from women in the enlisted WAVES. Those eligible were WAVES of the Hospital Corps to fill sixty-three billets on ships of the Military Sea Transportation Service. Official U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
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Caption: USN 709032: Preparing for surgery calls for more than a doctor, October 1953. Hospital Corpsman Second Class Eileen Paluzzi prepares the IV while Hospital Corpsman Third Class Maria A. Myers readies surgical equipment on board USNS George M. Goethals (T-AP-182). Photograph released October 26, 1953. Master Caption: Navy Accepts Women Volunteers for Duty on the High Seas. For the first time in history, the U.S. Navy has accepted volunteers for duty on the high seas from women in the enlisted WAVES. Those eligible were WAVES of the Hospital Corps to fill sixty-three billets on ships of the Military Sea Transportation Service. Official U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
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