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Pollywogs lay on the surgeons table during a Line Crossing ceremony aboard USS Bismarck Sea (CVE-95), Equatorial Pacific Ocean, 1944-1945 : Photograph 1944-1945.

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Description: Sailors wait in line for a mock surgeon's table during the Line Crossing Ceremony on the deck of the USS Bismarck Sea, sailors dressed in medical uniforms help another sailor sit up. Official stamped caption on the back: "Released / If published credit must be given as follows 'Official Photograph U. S. Navy.'" Personal caption on the back: "All of us had to lay on this table and Royal Doctor put hot [illegible] in our mouth. It started raining here." Equatorial Pacific Ocean.
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