9-7979-15 ComSeventhFlt Det. "C". Assisted by an operating room technician, Lieutenant Commander John S. Lindsay of Schnectady, New York, performs oral surgery on the Navy Hospital ship Repose.
Aseptic conditions are required even for tooth extractions in this 750-bed floating hospital off Vietnam. [Portraits.] [Vietnam War.] [Scene.] Vietnam - faces of those who served.10/06/1967; VNT-16478-C-10-67; By JOC Robert D. Moeser, USN. Original public domain image from Flickr