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NH 75346 USS SANCTUARY (AH-17)

USS SANCTUARY (AH-17)
Title: USS SANCTUARY (AH-17)
Caption: When every bunk and every ward was filled, cots were obtained from the fleet and set up on the weather deck and filled with happy British, Australian, and Javanese ex-prisoners to whom even the cots seemed like a bit of heaven after three and a half years in a Japanese prison camp, September 1945.
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Catalog #: NH 75346
Copyright Owner: Naval History and Heritage Command
Original Creator:
After this Year: 1940
Before this Year: 1949
Original Medium: BW Photo
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