Keywords: blackandwhite monochrome indoor black and white 80-CF-827-15-2: In one wing of hospital are sick officers. Pleasure of these two officers as they read of the Midway naval victory is indeed genuine because both have been in action against the Japanese. Lieutenant Junior Grade Jacob Kaplen, (in bed), was with the Pacific fleet task force that smashed at the Caroline, Gilbert, and Marshall Islands and is in the Chelsea Naval Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, as a result of the leg injuries he received in combat. Lieutenant Junior Grade is the other patient. Lieutenant Freeman, who was attached to the Utility Wing base force at Pearl Harbor last December 7 was in town when the treacherous attack began. Immediately, he headed for the naval air station to take part in the battle. Photographed June 1942. U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/05/03). 80-CF-827-15-2: In one wing of hospital are sick officers. Pleasure of these two officers as they read of the Midway naval victory is indeed genuine because both have been in action against the Japanese. Lieutenant Junior Grade Jacob Kaplen, (in bed), was with the Pacific fleet task force that smashed at the Caroline, Gilbert, and Marshall Islands and is in the Chelsea Naval Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, as a result of the leg injuries he received in combat. Lieutenant Junior Grade is the other patient. Lieutenant Freeman, who was attached to the Utility Wing base force at Pearl Harbor last December 7 was in town when the treacherous attack began. Immediately, he headed for the naval air station to take part in the battle. Photographed June 1942. U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/05/03). |