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
Summary
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.
Tags
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
Date
01/01/1940
Location
africa
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
Public Domain