A ship full of nurses and doctors arrive on Cape Gloucester to set up the 251st Station Hospital at New Britain in August 1944
U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph, Gift of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, from the collection of the National WWII Museum
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From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. A ship full of nurses and doctors arrive on Cape Gloucester to set up the 251st Station Hospital. "Hospital ship arrives with nurses and doctors to set up 251st station hospital on New Britain Island." Cape Gloucester, New Britain. August 1944
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1944-08-
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Items from the service of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, consisting of photographs of the 161st Signal Photographic Company Combat Unit #10 which served on Espiritu Santos, Guadalcanal, New Britain, New Guinea, Noemfor, Leyte, Samar and Luzon.
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Gloucester, Cape
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Nurses--American--New Britain
Ships--American--New Britain
Lifeboats--American--New Britain