Appendectomy at Sea. Returning from the merchant ship with the appendicitis-stricken member of its Navy gun crew, Coast Guardsmen gently transfer the gunner from the lifeboat to the Coast Guard convoy cutter. Dr. Thomas S. Hersey, the Public Health Service surgeon attached to the cutter, is to perform the operation aboard the pitching, tossing vessel in mid-Atlantic.

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Keywords: 17-a2-187, 26-, coast, guard, history, job, rdss, rg