U.S. COAST GUARD RESQUES ALLIED AIRMEN. U.S.

U.S. COAST GUARD RESQUES ALLIED AIRMEN. U.S. Coast Guardsmen help injured Allied airmen aboard their cutter after tossing a line to the raft in which they were floating in the English Channel. The survivors, a RAF Flying Officer and a RCAF Flight Officer, were returning from a mission over Germany when they ran into an electrical storm which threw them off course. They ran out of gas and were forced to make a crash landing in the Guard cutter, on patrol off the Cherbourg Peninsula, found the wreckage of the bomber with the flyers floating nearby in a raft. Since D-Day (June 6, 1944), U.S. Coast Guardsmen Rescue Flotilla No. 1, operating under hazardous conditions, has saved hundreds of Allied fighting men off the coast of France.