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Advanced dressing station in West Africa. An operation is performed in a camouflaged operating station while native Africans in the medical unit assist the medical officers. Africans in this group include nursing orderlies, stretcher bearers, ambulance drivers, enlisted personnel and mess servants. The majority come from the coastal and central (Ashanti) districts

Hospital units at work. American Field Service Units at work somewhere in the African Desert

Hospital units at work. American Field Service Units at work somewhere in the African Desert

Africa Partnership Station (APS) Sailors load Project Handclasp medical supplies onto a supply truck for donation to the Ghanaian Navy Western Command hospital.

Medical personnel from the 48th Tactical Fighter Wing's Flying Ambulance Surgical Team (FAST) tend to patients during a MEDFLAG exercise. Medical personnel from the U.S. European Command conduct three MEDFLAGs annually, in conjunction with medical personnel of various African countries. The program emphasizes security and medical training while providing humanitarian/civic assistance to the host country

Indian troops in East Africa. These photos show scenes in Indian shipyards busy turning out trawlers and other Naval craft. The floor is being fitted in one of the many new trawlers which are being built for India's defence. The Serang is directing lifting operation

A U.S. Army UH-60A Black Hawk helicopter lifts off as members of the 98th General Hospital's Rapid Deployment Team set up a casualty station during a demonstration conducted as part of the U.S.-African Medical Symposium. Medical personnel from the U.S., Botswana, Burundi, Chad, Ghana, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Uganda and Zaire are attending the three-day symposium, which is sponsored by the U.S. European Command

U.S. Negro troops on way to Liberia. Negro members of an American Army engineer's unit, on a transport bound for Liberia, Africa, take their daily setting up exercises on deck. The men are wearing a new light type of life preserver which allows freer movement than the older bulkier type formerly used

Africa Partnership Station (APS) Sailors and Sao Tomeain military personnel move hospital beds from a landing craft utility to a local hospital designated from Project Handclasp.

Advanced dressing station in West Africa. An operation is performed in a camouflaged operating station while native Africans in the medical unit assist the medical officers. Africans in this group include nursing orderlies, stretcher bearers, ambulance drivers, enlisted personnel and mess servants. The majority come from the coastal and central (Ashanti) districts

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Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).

Image source: British official photo from OWI.

Title and other information from caption card.

Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

Film copy on SIS roll 33, frame 867.

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01/01/1940
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africa nitrate negatives united states office of war information photo station africans west africa stretcher bearers ambulance drivers mess servants ultra high resolution high resolution office of war information farm security administration library of congress