Ran across this item of trivia. Will leave the photo up for a week or so, Then have to make room for other stuff.

From the “ RESERVIST” magazine , March 1964

Well, it’s happened.
A baby’s been born in a helicopter. He is definitely the first ever born in a Coast Guard helicopter, possibly the first ever born in a helicopter in this country.
He was officially logged in at 1 : 38 p.m. at 800 feet over Camden Point on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina. He and his mother, Mrs. Stella P. O’Neal, were reported doing fine when they landed ay the hospital 16 minutes later.
The father, Edward C. O’Neal, is a commissaryman second at the Ocracoke Lifeboat Station.
The delivery was performed by Public Health Service Surgeon Andy F. Horne, assisted by the crewman, Ronald W. Cox, aviation machinist’s mate second.
Pilot was CDR T. J. HYNES and co – pilot LT Vernon C. JONES.
The air station there got a “ hurry “ call for help from Nurse Kathleen Bragg, who is the entire civilian medical department of tiny Ocracoke Island.

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That's pretty cool. I have to ask, did the baby go on to become a CG aviator?

Nice find MasterMate!

Interesting to see that all the crew's names were listed. It seems in the last 20 years or so, writers have taken the lazy approach and single out only the pilot or even less.

We had a case in December that we launched on where the mother was delivering her baby breach and needed to be flown to a better hospital.

We kept playing out scenarios how we were going to handle delivering a baby in the small confines of an HH-65 cabin. I couldn't think of anything good coming of that at all.

Instead they gave her a C-section twenty minutes before we got there. So instead of delivering a baby, we had to fly a 10 week preemie to the hospital instead.

I'm just glad to know if we had to deliver the baby, there was at least a fourty plus year old precidence and we should have been able to do it.

Good for them.