Robert Tucker Abbott, Naval Medical Research Unit 2 (NAMRU-2), Guam Island, Pacific Navy War trip, station numbers 105-256, April-October 1945.
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PrintR. T. Abbott was a medical malacologist. He became Assistant Curator and Associate Curator of the Department of Mollusks. He was a Navy bomber pilot during WWII, and later joined the Naval Medical Research Unit to study schistosomiasis, a disease affecting troops in the Pacific. This field book includes lists of stations and their numbers, with notes and drawings, for Abbott's field trip to Guam Island during a Pacific War trip. the stations are numbered 105-256 and the field notes are dated from April 13 to October 26, 1945.
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Apr 13, 1945
Oct 26, 1945
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