Museum Historian, Clay Farrington is pictured photographing an inert 60mm mortar shell. The inert shell will be displayed in a secured case in the museum’s new exhibit, “The Ten Thousand Day War at Sea: the US Navy in Vietnam, 1950-1975”, which opens to the public on October 9, 2019 at 10am. The shell was removed by Chief of Surgery at Naval Support Activity Da Nang, Captain Harry Dinsmore, USN. According to an interview with his son, Dr. Harry Dinsmore, Jr (an orthopedic surgeon) in 2010 for the Lewistown Sentinel "the young soldier was riding in a tank at the time with his head sticking out. The mortar shell hit him on the top of his shoulder, penetrating his skin and stopped just outside of his ribcage" The procedure to remove the mortar shell took about an hour, and six weeks later the Vietnamese soldier, who was 16 at the time, had recovered enough to return to duty. Dr. Dinsmore served in Vietnam during 1966-1967 as chief of surgery at the Naval Support Activity Hospital, DaNang, Vietnam. He returned to Bethesda Naval Hospital and retired from the Navy in November 1967. (US Navy photo by Max Lonzanida/Released)
| Date Taken: | 09.30.2019 |
| Date Posted: | 10.01.2019 12:05 |
| Photo ID: | 5801003 |
| VIRIN: | 190930-N-TG517-922 |
| Resolution: | 3917x2652 |
| Size: | 1.24 MB |
| Location: | NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, US |
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