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Description:Palau islands. Marines help Army medical corpsmen remove wounded soldiers from a transport plane at the Leatherneck base on Peleliu in the Palau Islands. The soldiers, wounded on Leyte, remain overnight in the 440 bed transient hospital on the first leg of the air strip to rear bases. December 1, 1944. (USMC 101735)
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