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Man Overboard
From Jim Brusa 1956
Man Overboard
During flight quarters one day, close to southern Japan, when we were waiting for the planes to return, the man overboard horn blew and the ship made a tight turn. As I was on duty and my man overboard station was at the small boat launching site, I was there when they returned and asked for a stokes stretcher, the kind made of chicken wire. When the boat returned again, they had a body of a Japanese man. The body was placed into a body bag and the helo flew it to the nearest police station. Weeks later, the captain received a letter from a Japanese lady who thanked him for returning her husband to the land. He had been lost overboard from a fishing boat months before.
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