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D20385-4
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- 1945-09-26 (Creation)
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Miss Mary Conolly, at the center wearing a nurse's cap, helped care for the 50 refugee children that were brought to Tacoma on the S.S. Admiral Eberle on September 25, 1945. The ship carried over 4,500 army officers and men, Red Cross workers, liberated American civilians, Filipino immigrants and a USO troupe back from the Pacific war theater. The Tacoma Red Cross took in, and cared for the children that were on the ship by converting their bandage and dressings room into a nursery for them. The Junior Red Cross arranged for donations of new toys so that each child took away a toy when they left - the first toy many of them had ever owned. (TNT, 9/29/1945, p.9)
World War, 1939-1945--Children--Tacoma; American Red Cross Pierce County Chapter (Tacoma); Refugees; Conolly, Mary