Coast Guard Helicopter Demonstrates Air-Sea Rescue with New U-Type Equipment. Survivor is A Coast Guard Sikorsky helicopter, flown by Coast Guard Commander F. A. Erickson from the Coast Guard Air Station at Brooklyn, , demonstrates the use of a new U-Type rescue harness in pulling shipwreck survivors from the Sea. The tests made off the Atlantic Coast were aimed to show the value of the device in rough seas, which would prevent the helicopter from alighting on the surface of the ocean. The "shipwreck survivor" in this simulated rescue is Coast Guardsman Lewis T. Marshall, Aviatio
Coast Guard Helicopter Demonstrates Air-Sea Rescue with New U-Type Equipment. Survivor is A Coast Guard Sikorsky helicopter, flown by Coast Guard Commander F. A. Erickson from the Coast Guard Air Station at Brooklyn, , demonstrates the use of a new U-Type rescue harness in pulling shipwreck survivors from the Sea. The tests made off the Atlantic Coast were aimed to show the value of the device in rough seas, which would prevent the helicopter from alighting on the surface of the ocean. The "shipwreck survivor" in this simulated rescue is Coast Guardsman Lewis T. Marshall, Aviation Machinist's Mate Second class of Peabody, Mass. Commander Erickson lives in Tacoma, Wash.
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