Former submariner will finally be recognized [23 yo WWII pharmacist's mate performed appendectomy]

Sun-Journal [New Bern, NC] ^ | Feb 19, 2005 | Charlie Hall

[Always Right]

Liberals would arrest him for performing without a license.

[Solamente]

Mister Roberts?

[Socratic]

"Liberals..."

Liberals ask: "Is the War in Iraq worth it?" YOU BET! Beyond anything derived in a geopolitical sense, the renewed appreciation of our service personnel justifies it all. The derided Vietnam Generation has turned their ill-treatment into something which transcends what could have been ever lasting bitterness. By giving what they did not receive, they glorify the nation and themselves. By making sure that they recognize other's they bring long due recognition to themselves.

[Solamente]

No, I'm wrong. I think it was the movie "Ensign Pulver!"


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058060/

[MindBender26]

>Sixty-three years ago, Lipes performed a historic and controversial surgery aboard a submarine, saving a young sailor's life.

Typical liberal writer's slant on the news: Be anti-military whenever you can! What was "controversial" about the procedure. The opening paragraph makes that accusation, but the story has nothing to support it.

On sailor saved another's life, but ensure you throw some dirt on the act!

Today's journalists: Little bigoted pencil geeks. (If the writer, Mike Fieschko, can insert opinions, so can I!)b

[Run Silent Run Deep]

I knew that submariners were like demi-Gods but I didn't know we could perform operations too!

[Run Silent Run Deep]

DEMIGOD

A male being, often the offspring of a god and a mortal, who has some but not all of the powers of a god.

An inferior deity; a minor god.

A deified man.

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Yeah, that's about right.

[Calvin Locke]

Actually, Destination Tokyo, 1943

From the IMDB comment section:

"The appendectomy performed by amateurs under primitive conditions on the bottom of Tokyo Bay.
(Based on a true incident.)"

[Solamente]

I stand corrected. But who had the appendectomy at the Luao?

[MarineBrat]

The movie version of this that I saw was some type of comedy where a junior officer who was always in trouble had to remove the antagonist captain's appendix, while talking to a real doctor via radio. As I recall they had the captain drink mass quantities of liquor as anesthetic.

I think the young officer left a bag of marbles inside the captain. I miss all of those 60's military comedies.

[Solamente]

Um, Luau.

[Solamente]

Yeah, that's the one!

[Calvin Locke]

Burl Ives. I think Cagney was the CO in the original.

You're right, but I forgot to add that "Destination Tokyo" was probably the first to use the incident.

"Pulver" came much later, and did the luau treatment. And the marbles. Can't think of any previous mention
of doing such a thing.

[Solamente]

It's a good thing to repair those fuzzy memory synapses! Thanks!

[Calvin Locke]

You got me thinking of fuzzy memories. I looked up "EP" on IMDB.

Robert Walker Jr., Burl Ives, Larry Hagman, Walter Matthau, Tommy Sands, Peter Marshall, Jack Nicholson,
Richard Gautier, George Lindsey, James Farentino, Jerry Orbach, Michael Daves

I used to like reading the credits until the programming whizzes at the networks decided to squeeze them down.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Interesting WWII Navy Corpman Ping!

[ORECON]

I remember reading this story in "Readers Digest" back in the 1950's.