Show Helicopters Now On Regular Coast Patrol NEW V YORK YORK The The regular use of sky Y helicopters for shore off-shore patrol and rescue assignments in this area was revealed last month by the US U.S. Coast Guard I The official announcement came shortly after a helicopter pter made the first lifesaving lifesaving life life- I saving sa flight in history by a lift direct air air- craft In the late afternoon of April 1st it dropped out of whipped gale skies to rescue a old lad Jad marooned on a sandbar The young oung fisherman had been stranded when his llis companion was blown far down the theba ba bay in their rowboat A Navy patrol flier spotted the boy on the sand spit and flashed the word to the Coast Guard air station at Floyd Flod Bennett Field where a number of Si Si- Si korsky helicopters are based Within a few minutes the rescue craft had risen into the storm shuttled across Jamaica Bay settled on the spit taken on its surprised passenger and lifted him to safety In an earlier emergency assi assignment a Y helicopter of the Coast Guard carried car car- ried ned blood plasma to the survivors of a destroyer destroyer de de- de- de explosion in N New ew York harbor under almost impossible flying conditions |