File:80-G-205704.jpg

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A wounded Marine raider awaits treatment on a litter outside a field hospital on Bougainville

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English: A wounded Marine raider with a piece of shrapnel in his brain awaits treatment on a litter outside a field hospital on Bougainville, 5 January 1944. Inside the tent, another tent, another Marine is having a hand amputated. According to the Navy doctor who treated the Raider, the first thing he asked after treatment was "I'll be able to go back up to the front in half an hour, won't I doc.?" Note M-1 rifles.
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