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New York. June 17, 1918. "Stokes stretcher on Comfort." Continuing our tour of the facilities aboard the World War I hospital ship. View full size.
...of course they're falsies!
I pass one of these hanging on the wall as our emergency stretcher in the US Navy Command where I work.
Judging by the quality of the paint, etc., it might have been off this very ship.
I hear my name being called, I'm gonna just lean you over here for a second ...
There's something a little Red Eye about this photo.
"Please don't drop me please don't drop me please don't -- "
I thought they threw him and the dog overboard.
I have a kid who would go to work like that if she could. Some mornings, I have to wake her up with a defibrillator.
When I retired off submarines in 1998 the Stokes stretcher was still in use. I never realized it was an eighty year old invention.
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