M62 · Later oral-history excerpt · official Navy Medicine publication

Joseph Pollard: a Navy doctor’s journey of survival, part 2

Pollard’s recollection of treating and moving Yorktown’s wounded.

Author
Joseph Page Pollard, interviewed by Jan K. Herman · Navy Medicine
Date
Published 5 June 2013 · interview date not supplied on this page
Passage
Dressing-station overflow, forward aircraft elevator and stretcher evacuation passages

What has been checked

Official Navy Medicine excerpt read on 24 October 2026. Original audio and unabridged interview not inspected.

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A published excerpt of retrospective testimony. Not a complete medical return or a verified tactical chronology. The surrounding modern captions are not used as evidence for the battle’s strategic result.

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