Original 1947 AP Wirephoto showing a U.S. Coast Guard rescue of merchant seaman Thomas S. Kozlowski, who was stricken with acute appendicitis while aboard the tug Eugenia M. Moran. According to the original AP caption, a rubber boat carrying Kozlowski is being hauled aboard a Coast Guard aircraft about four miles off New Haven, Connecticut. The plane then transported him to Floyd Bennett Field for transfer to a Marine Hospital. Chief Aviation Pilot Kenneth Canion of Victoria, Texas, flew the aircraft. Photograph and separate original caption are mounted together on black archival paper with period tape. Overall size approximately 8½ x 7¼ inches. Came from the archive of a Pittsburgh area newspaper.
