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NH 97517 U.S. Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland

Photo #: NH 97517 U.S. Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland
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Title: U.S. Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland
Description: WAVE recruits in the hospital training school ... enjoy a joke with one of the hospital's pharmacist's mates, Patrick La Rosa, engaged in one of the frequent, if not favorite, Navy pastimes 'swabbing the deck'. From left to right are WAVES Jean Rindall ...; Naomi Edwards ...; Charlotte Kofoid ...; Nancy Crane ...; Carol Peterson ...; Geneva Dudley ...; and Jean Aldo ... Quoted from the original caption released with this photograph effective 18 July 1945. Note: Pharmacist's Mate striker badges on the WAVES' sleeves; poster adminishing Don't ever call it a boat! Unless you can hoist it aboard a ship Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command.
Catalog #: NH 97517
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