An ophthalmologist and medical technicians prepare to remove a cataract from a patient in an operating room aboard the hospital ship USNS MERCY (T-AH-19). The ship is visiting various ports in the Philippines during the first phase of its five-month humanitarian medical service and training mission. While in the Philippines, U.S. Navy, Army and Air Force medical personnel embarked aboard the MERCY are providing treatment for indigent Filipinos, both ashore and aboard ship
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Country: Philippine Islands
Scene Camera Operator: PHC Chet King
Release Status: Released to Public
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Date
01/04/1987
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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