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Top Left: The Harbor boat brings in a load from a staging area at the embarkment of engineering port on field hospital. Harbor Boat "Army Queen" at San Francisco Pier. 1/14/43 Top Right: Chaplain George H. Bohlender and Chaplain Morris B. Chapper prepare for their first meal before going overseas. January, 1943 Bottom Left: From the shiphold a huge tonnage of ammunition is hoisted to be used in blasting the Japs from their Island stronghold. Attu Island, in the Aleutians. 1943 Bottom Right: First wave of assault groping their formation through a curtain of enveloping fog at Attu Island, in the Aleutians. 1943

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