26-G-3708_Box 70_1:  Invasion of Leyte, Philippines, 20 October 1944.  Mercy Ship Leaves the Maelstrom.  From embattled Leyte Island, an American hospital ship moves serenely across the bow of Coast-Guard-manned LST.  Marked with the Red Cross and painted white, this mercy ship carries wounded American fighting men away from the flaming central Philippines.  Equipped with the finest surgical facilities and staffed with doctors and nurses, the hospital ship saves lives and starts casualties on the recovery road even as it leaves the zone of conflict.  U.S. Coast Guard photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.   (2015/12/15).
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