Onboard the US Navy (USN) Military Sealift Command (MSC), Hospital Ship, USNS MERCY (T-AH 19), an international team of doctors and medical assistants work to remove a thyroid goiter from a local resident patient, as the ship rests anchored in the Philippine Sea off of the coast of the Republic of Philippine City of Zamboanga. The USNS MERCY is on a scheduled five-month deployment to deliver aid and humanitarian assistance to the Pacific Islands, and Southeast Asia
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Usns Mercy (T-AH 19)
Scene Camera Operator: Josn Ryan Clement, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
27/05/2006
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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