USS Peleliu Photo Gallery

These photos feature the work of the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, serving on the USS Peleliu during the Pacific Partnership humanitarian mission to Southeast Asia and Oceania in 2007.

Photos from:

• The Philippines
• Viet Nam
• Papua New Guinea
• Solomon Islands
• Marshall Islands

The Philippines

Captain Downs directing line movement at Tabaco Elementary on July 2, 2007. [original = 75KB]

Viet Nam

	Site survey on July 15, 2007. [original = 82KB]
	Medical personnel from the USS Peleliu provide dental care to a young Vietnamese boy on July 16, 2007. [original = 88KB]

Papua New Guinea

	Medical clinical at Josephstaal, Papua New Guinea, on August 9, 2007. [original = 51KB]
	HHS Public Health Service Officer teaches a Papua New Guinean in Josephstaal how to thread a pipe on August 10, 2007. [original = 99KB]
	Papua New Guineans at a well in Josephstaal on August 11, 2007. [original = 90KB]
	CDR John Moroney of the HHS Public Health Service with a traditional dancer in Josephstaal, Papua New Guinea, in August 2007. [original = 56KB]
	LCDR George Hanley distributes a few toys to children at Modilon Hospital in Madang, Papua New Guinea, on August 13, 2007. [original = 37KB]
	LDCR Edward Dieser teaches a class in Papua New Guinea on August 14, 2007. [original = 15KB]
	LCDR George Hanley with Dr. Gideon Kendino, Papua New Guinea Defense Force, on August 16, 2007. [original = 25KB]
	LCDR George Hanley with the Honorable Leslie V. Rowe, U.S. Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu, on August 17, 2007. [original = 17KB]
	LT Tracy Branch examines a patient in Bunabun, Papua New Guinea, in August 2007. [original = 51KB]
	Patients waiting to see HHS Public Health Service health care providers at the clinic in Bunabun, Papua New Guinea, in August 2007. [original = 63KB]
	Registered patients wait their turn in line at the clinic in Bunabun, Papua New Guinea, in August 2007. [original = 70KB]
	Ceremonial dancers in Papua New Guinea pose for a photo with HHS Public Health Service personnel during the USS Peleliu’s humanitarian mission to the Pacific Region on August 7, 2007. [original = 74KB]
	HHS Public Health Service environmental health officers at the Asuramba Internally Displaced Persons Center in Papua New Guinea in August 2007. [original = 74KB]
	U.S. Public Health Services personnel in Papua New Guinea as part of the USS Peleliu’s four-month humanitarian mission to the Pacific Region in August 2007. [original = 63KB]
	U.S. Public Health Services personnel in Papua New Guinea as part of the USS Peleliu’s four-month humanitarian mission to the Pacific Region in August 2007. [original = 69KB]
	U.S. Public Health Services personnel in Papua New Guinea as part of the USS Peleliu’s four-month humanitarian mission to the Pacific Region in August 2007. [original = 68KB]
	An HHS Public Health Service environmental health officer inspects an uncovered well in Papua New Guinea during the USS Peleliu’s humanitarian mission to the Pacific Region in August 2007. [original = 72KB]
	An HHS Public Health Service environmental health officer discusses clean water issues with a water treatment plan operator in Papua New Guinea during the USS Peleliu’s humanitarian mission to the Pacific Region in August 2007. [original = 55KB]

Solomon Islands

On August 23, 2007, Lt. Tracy Branch of the HHS U.S. Public Health Services (USPHS) comforts a local child before examining him during a medical screening at Voza Medical Clinic, Solomon Islands, in support of the humanitarian mission called "Pacific Partnership." (Photo by U.S. Navy Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Patrick M. Kearney) [original = 166KB]

Marshall Islands

	On August 31, 2007, aboard the USS Peleliu, Vietnamese Dr. Ngo Hanh (left) and CAPT Michael Wilcox, a general surgeon with the U.S. Public Health Service of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, performed back surgery on a resident of Majuro Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, where the ship spent 10 days on its humanitarian mission, called "Pacific Partnership," through East Asia, Melanesia and Micronesia. (Photo by U.S. Navy Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class (SW) Jennifer R. Hudson) [original = 141KB]
	The U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Marshall Islands, the Honorable Clyde Bishop, receives a U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) coin from CDR John Moroney, an HHS USPHS Commissioned Corps officer on board the USS Peleliu on September 1, 2007. [original = 200KB]
	The last nine USPHS Commissioned Corps officers deployed to the USS Peleliu to participate in the "Pacific Partnership," on September 7, 2007. Front row, left to right: LT Tracy Branch; LCDR Aimee Treffiletti; CAPT Kathleen Downs; and LT Nazmul Hassan. Back row, left to right: LCDR George Hanley; CAPT Michael Wilcox; CDR John Moroney; LCDR Stephen Piontkowski; and LCDR Edward Dieser. [original = 67KB]
	CDR John Moroney, HHS U.S. Public Health Service, collects a water sample in the Republic of the Marshall Islands in September 2007. [original = 270KB]
	LCDRs Stephen Piontkowski and Edward Dieser and LT Nazmul Hassan at a water system assessment in the Republic of the Marshall Islands in September 2007. [original = 188KB]
	HHS U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Officers conduct a water-quality assessment in the Republic of the Marshall Islands: LCDR Doug Hanley (looking down the tank); LCDR Stephen Piontkowski (at far right); LT Nazmul Hassan (in background). [original = 221KB]

Last revised: November 20, 2007