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Signage on the perimeter of the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Photographer: Devry Becker Jones (CC0)
Taken: December 24, 2019
Caption: Signage on the perimeter of the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Additional Description: WWII
More than 18,000 service members were admitted to Walter Reed in 1943 alone. The increase in patients pushed the Army to purchase the old National Park Seminary nearby, to provide more space for recovering soldiers.
Submitted: December 24, 2019, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p505932
File Size: 7.013 Megabytes

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