Dental Technician 2nd Class (DT2) Eric Eclavea compares a prosthetic left eye he made with the right eye of 15-year-old Aida Balunso of Albay Province. Her left eye became infected after cataract surgery, and had to be removed, Eclavea is a maxillofacial prosthetic technician in the dental lab on board the Navy's newest hospital ship USNS MERCY (T-AH 19), which is on a five-month training and humanitarian cruise to the Philippines and other South Pacific ports
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Legazpi City
Country: Philippines (PHL)
Scene Camera Operator: PHC Chet King
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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dental
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us national archives
Date
01/04/1978
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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