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Vietnam War Picture: Evacuated Patients on the Deck of an Amphibious Assault Ship


(Picture courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.)

South Vietnam - Medical evacuation patients on the deck of the Amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli (LPH-10) await transfer to the 22nd Casualty Station in Danang from which they will be sent to the States. Wounded Marines who cannot be returned to duty, or who require more than six days of hospital care are removed from the Tripoli and returned to the USA. (July 1967)

 

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