MISSION REPORT - RESCUES - 04

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14 SEPTEMBER 1944
 First Lieutenant Frederick F. Hoss, evacuated a soldier with an acute appendix from Wardo Bay, Biak. He landed in the open sea and transferred  the patient from a barge to his ship. The patient was taken to the 92nd General Hospital at Owi.

EVACUATED: 1 soldier with acute appendicitis

AIRCRAFT TYPE: OA-10A*
 USAAF SERNO: 44-33882  (CV-336)**
CALLSIGN: "Daylight ??" 
CREW: (Pilot) 1st Lt. Hoss, Frederick F. Jr., (Co-Pilot) 2nd Lt. Leroy R. Nelson


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 The narrative of these rescues was compiled and published in April 1946 from logbooks of pilots, notes, letters, and other
information by secretary Marina G. de Guzman in Pampanga, Philippines.

  * Aircraft produced at Canadian Vickers Ldt, Cartierville, Quebec, Canada
 ** Canadian Vickers contract number that was unique to each aircraft produced by at the Cartierville, Quebec plan
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