48 VIETNAM
Disease specialists
examine blood samples
to find the local strain
of malaria that posed
a threat to American
forces in Southeast Asia.
A wounded Marine
undergoes surgery in
November 1967 at a medical
suite aboard USS Tripoli,
a helicopter assault ship
in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Cpl. Bernice Scott
of the Army Nurse
Corps joins the medical
team during an
operation at the 2nd
Surgical Hospital in
Lai Khe, a town north
of Saigon, in 1969.
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