Aboard the Hospital Ship USS Repose off South Vietnam

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Description

The original caption for this photograph reads: Navy Nurses. Lieutenant Commander Dorothy Ryan checks the medical chart of Marine Corporal Roy Hadaway of Calera, Alabama aboard the hospital ship USS repose off South Vietnam. Miss Ryan, from Bronx, New York is one of 29 nurses aboard the hospital ship selected from 500 volunteers of the Navy Nurse Corps.

Citation

This primary source comes from the Records of the U.S. Marine Corps.

National Archives Identifier: 532500

Full Citation: Photograph 127-N-A704374; Navy Nurses. Lieutenant Commander Dorothy Ryan checks the medical chart of Marine Corporal Roy Hadaway of Calera, Alabama aboard the hospital ship USS repose off South Vietnam.; 4/22/1966; General Photograph File of the U.S. Marine Corps, 1927 – 1981; Records of the U.S. Marine Corps, Record Group 127; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/document/uss-repose-vietnam/, December 15, 2025]

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