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This Way to Recovery

A corpsman pulls a wounded soldier to safety
Description: Drawing, Pastel on Paper; by Irwin Hoffman; C. 1943; Framed Dimensions 32H X 37W
Accession #: 88-159-GD as a Gift of Abbott Laboratories
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While his comrades keep up a steady fire to discourage enemy marksmen, a Navy hospital corpsman drags a "casualty" to comparative safety in a foxhole. This is one of the grimly realistic portraits drawn at Camp Lejeune where Navy corpsmen are in training.

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Wars & Conflicts
  • World War II 1939-1945
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