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Sailors Learn Pill-Rolling To Treat The Merchant Fleet
At Sheepshead Bay training station the U S Maritime Service teaches hospital corps, purser and junior assistant purser roles to prepare merchant seamen for medical care aboard Liberty ships freighters and tankers. The program began December 7 1942 and aims to halt epidemics improve sanitation and provide frontline care until medical officers arrive.
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Sheepshead Bay
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Hospital Corps School
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