1944 - CDR Frank Erickson flew a cargo of blood plasma in a Coast Guard HNS-1 helicopter from Brooklyn to a hospital in Sandy Hook, New Jersey in the first recorded lifesaving flight conducted by a rotary-winged aircraft.
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SAN FRANCISCO- The Coast Guard Cutter Pike sits moored at Sector San Francisco on a foggy December morning. The Pike, homeported here, is one of four 87-foot patrol boats assigned to Sector San Francisco. The Pike, along with the Tern, Sockeye, and Hawksbill perform all of the Coast Guard's missions in and around the San Francisco Bay. (Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Kevin J. Neff)
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