With Stew under my arm, I'd been brought aboard from the rescue boat naked as a plucked pigeon, holding Timothy's wooden-handled knife as my only possession from our time on the island. Took my USS Sedgewick temperature, looked in my mouth and ears, took my blood pressure. She hummed and quivered along, pitching gently over the smooth sea, temporarily secured from hunting German U-boats.ĭown in sick bay, the ship's hospital, I sat on a cold metal stool while the doctor checked me out. RESCUED 12-YEAR-OLD BOY PHILLIP ENRIGHT AND HIS CAT FROM UNCHARTED CAY X SURVIVORS OF SS HATO TORPEDOED APRIL THIS YEAR X BOY AND CAT SEEM TO BE IN GOOD CONDITION X PROCEEDING CRISTOBAL X AUGUST 1942-The navy's Caribbean command received a priority dispatch from the USS Sedgewick :
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