Medical emergency at sea, 1967

Medical emergency at sea, 1967

Aboard the USS Epperson, off Taiwan, April, 1967

Gunner's Mate 3C Charles Chauvin is attended to after he became ill during a patrol in the Formosa Strait. There was no doctor assigned to the USS Epperson, and the patrol had to continue, so Chauvin was taken by a Chinese Air Force H-19 helicopter to the Headquarters Support Activity Station Hospital in Taipei. He was discharged four days later, and retuned to his ship.

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