| Aircraft Carrier Lake Champlain’s Men Donate Blood | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1619 |
| Catalog #: | 518406 | |
| Clip Number: | 518406-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 029-047 | |
| Timecode: | 00:02:28 - 00:03:09 | |
| Location: | Brooklyn, New York | |
| Year Shot: | 1956 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | HEALTH AND MEDICINE: Blood Donations & Transfusions LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, New York, New York MILITARY: Navy, USA | |
| Description: | The Aircraft Carrier ‘The Lake Champlain’ embarks on an errand of mercy as members of her crew assemble to donate blood to the Red Cross. A thousand of the crew volunteers for ‘Operation Blood’. It takes two days to complete and it’s a day off for all hand as 35 Red Cross Nurses assisted by 35 volunteer workers and navy core men proceed smoothly and about the job of collecting the thousand pints of sea going blood Brooklyn, New York The Aircraft Carrier docked in Brooklyn’s New York Harbor. MS - Members of her crew assembled. CUS - Nurse taking the blood pressure of a sailor. CUS - Sailor laying on a gurney as the nurse is taking his blood. MS - Volunteers marking the empty bottles that hold the blood. CUS - Sailor laying on a gurney, with one arm under his head smiling at the cameraman | |
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