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An LST Transports the Wounded

The wounded being loaded onto a landing craft
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Description: Painting, Oil on Canvas; by Joseph Hirsch; 1943; Framed Dimensions 25H X 45W
Accession #: 88-159-FQ as a Gift of Abbott Laboratories
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