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These were taken during Russ's year, 1970 - 71.

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Russ thinks this is Tom Kohn. 
 
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The OR staff then.

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Looks like a party!  It was SGT Westphal's DEROS Party!!
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L --> R:  CPT Mathews (anesthetist, partially obscured), Tom Holland, Phil Calvi, Dan Boren, Bob Braun, Larry Chiara, Ken Gross?, Tom Kohn, Jim DeLoach, unidentified surgeon.

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"Did you ever see such a crew?  Boots shined, uniforms clean and pressed.
Mamasan would be proud.

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L --> R: Unidentified corpsman, MAJ Kuhn, Jim DeLoach (red hat), unidentified nurse.

But some still had work to do.
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And others were just run down!
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Russ says, "Not easy working 12 x 6, and sometimes even more.  I think that at the end of our tours, we were all at the end of our endurance."


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Page updated: July 7, 2003