Minerva Jacket
![A man in a body cast is sitting on a bed smoking a cigarette A man in a body cast is sitting on a bed smoking a cigarette](/content/history/nhhc/our-collections/art/exhibits/conflicts-and-operations/wwii/navy-medical-art-of-the-abbott-collection/minerva-jacket/_jcr_content/mediaitem/image.img.jpg/1485788563301.jpg)
This device is a Minerva jacket. The boy fell from a gun turret, dislocating a vertebra in his neck. The plaster cast is lined with black felt to prevent body sores at Aiea Naval Hospital, Pearl Harbor.
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Wars & Conflicts
- World War II 1939-1945
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