Page 11 of the wartime history of USS Petrof Bay (CVE-80) describes an intensive 60-hour mass-casualty relief effort treating roughly 300 wounded and burned men, and then recounts the ship's volunteer medical response to one of the Pacific War's worst non-combat disasters: the catastrophic explosion of the ammunition ship USS Mount Hood, which inflicted over 250 casualties aboard the nearby repair ship USS Mindanao. Project: 218461