Word: seadragon
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...Navy and pharmacist's mate whose emergency appendectomy on a shipmate--the first ever on a submarine--became one of the most famous lifesaving feats of World War II; of pancreatic cancer; in New Bern, N.C. When Seaman Darrell Rector fell ill on Sept. 11, 1942, aboard the Seadragon--which had no doctor on board and was a week away from the nearest port--Lipes, who had observed the procedure as a lab technician, was ordered to lead the surgical team. Using ground sulfa pills as an antiseptic and a gauze-covered tea strainer as an ether mask, he removed...
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