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Tsingtao, China, 1947.1947 ORIGINAL PHOTOS REVEAL CHALLENGES IN TRANSPORTING A US MARINE IN IRON LUNG FROM CHINA TO AMERICA.
Archive of photographs documenting U.S. Navy transfer of marine PFC Herbert E. Watts, polio victim in an iron lung, from the hospital ship USS Repose docked in Tsingtao, China, 1947. Included are (3) official 4 X 5-inch sepia-toned photographs, showing Watts in the iron lung prior to transfer from the ship; 2 prints with typescript paper annotations affixed to verso marked "Official U.S. Navy PHOTO", all 3 prints inscribed, "November 1947"; TOGETHER WITH (8) 2 ¾ X 4 ¾-inch photographs with deckled edges, 5 of which are inscribed verso, "USS Repose/ October 1947" including one marked, "Watts", showing the transfer of the patient to a truck on the dock. The month inscribed in one set of prints is presumably incorrect, as all images appear to portray the same event. The remaining 3 prints are inscribed, "Tsingtao, China, January 1948, one of which shows Pier 2 in the snow, and… Read More