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Portrait of a corpsman with a stretcher
Description: Painting, Oil on Canvas; by Irwin Hoffman; C. 1943; Framed Dimensions 58H X 34W
Accession #: 88-159-FW as a Gift of Abbott Laboratories
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In training at Camp Lejeune, a Navy corpsman poses for this portrait wearing his full field kit and toting his stretcher. Inside the kits are many of the latest aids for treating the wounded.

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