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Up and About: 1918
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 12/09/2011 - 1:48pm.
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New York. June 17, 1918. "Stokes stretcher on Comfort." Continuing our tour of the facilities aboard the World War I hospital ship. View full size.
Since you ask....
Submitted by Chris Albertson on Sat, 12/10/2011 - 7:11pm.
...of course they're falsies!
Still in use today
Submitted by RGMBill on Sat, 12/10/2011 - 11:33am.
I pass one of these hanging on the wall as our emergency stretcher in the US Navy Command where I work.
Judging by the quality of the paint, etc., it might have been off this very ship.
Be right back
Submitted by mikendakota on Sat, 12/10/2011 - 3:19am.
I hear my name being called, I'm gonna just lean you over here for a second ...
In context
Submitted by Corona on Sat, 12/10/2011 - 12:47am.
There's something a little Red Eye about this photo.
Thought Balloon
Submitted by Vintagetvs on Fri, 12/09/2011 - 8:42pm.
"Please don't drop me please don't drop me please don't -- "
Thank Goodness
Submitted by Mr Mel on Fri, 12/09/2011 - 7:38pm.
I thought they threw him and the dog overboard.
That could be useful
Submitted by Dave K on Fri, 12/09/2011 - 7:17pm.
I have a kid who would go to work like that if she could. Some mornings, I have to wake her up with a defibrillator.
Still in use
Submitted by RMLamp on Fri, 12/09/2011 - 4:35pm.
When I retired off submarines in 1998 the Stokes stretcher was still in use. I never realized it was an eighty year old invention.
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