Photo #: NH 80005
"Samaritans Afloat"
Poster from the "What the Navy is Doing" series, published
by the Navy Recruiting Bureau, New York, circa 1918.
It depicts USS Mercy (ID # 1305, later AH-4) and scenes
aboard a Navy hospital ship, among them surgeons at work, removal
of a metal fragment from a Sailor's eye, X-ray examination, use
of a Stokes stretcher for hoisting a patient on board, patients
in their bunks, and convalescents in the ship's solarium. Some
or all of these scenes may have been taken on board Mercy.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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