"Ralph A. Bard, Under Secretary of the Navy, pauses in a tour of the U.S. Naval Hospital, San Diego, to talk with a Marine wounded in the recent conquest of Peleliu in the Palau Islands.  The patient is Pfc. Lewis R. Juergens, USMC, of 950 South Floyd Street, Louisville, Ky., formerly of Chicago, who was hit by shrapnel on the third day of the invasion, and who reached the hospital only a week ago."
Public Relations Office, Eleventh Naval District, United States Navy
Original print (Serial SD(c) 7972 (44) purchased and digitalized by uploader.