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80-G-205704 Bougainville, Solomon Islands

Bougainville, Solomon Islands
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Title: Bougainville, Solomon Islands
Caption: A wounded Marine raider with a piece of shrapnel in his brain awaits treatment on a litter outside a field hospital on Bougainville, 5 January 1944. Inside the tent, another tent, another Marine is having a hand amputated. According to the Navy doctor who treated the Raider, the first thing he asked after treatment was "I'll be able to go back up to the front in half an hour, won't I doc.?" Note M-1 rifles.
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Catalog #: 80-G-205704
Copyright Owner: National Archives
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Original Date: Wed, Jan 05, 1944
After this Year: 1939
Before this Year: 1945
Original Medium: BW Photo
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