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Lieutenant Commander Joseph T. O'Callahan, USNR(ChC)

Gives "Last Rites" to an injured crewman aboard USS Franklin (CV-13), after the ship was set afire by a Japanese air attack, 19 March 1945. The crewman is reportedly Robert C. Blanchard, who survived his injuries.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

URL: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/g40000/g49132.jpg
Caption: Chaplain Joseph O'Callahan ministers to an injured man aboard USS Franklin, 1945. Photo 80-G-49132.

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