U.S. COAST GUARD RESCUES ALLIED AIRMEN.

U.S. COAST GUARD RESCUES ALLIED AIRMEN. Wrapped in blankets, RCAF Flight Officer Robert Griffith of Toronto, Canada, thanks U.S. Coast Guardsmen who rescued him and RAF Flying Officer Michael Gribbin of Oxfordshire, England, from the sea after a crash landing in the English Channel. Forced down when their plane ran out of gas in an electrical storm on their return from a mission over Germany, the two flyers were picked up by a Coast Guard cutter operating off the Cherbourg Peninsula. He is about to leave the cutter at a port in France to be taken by ambulance to a hospital. Since "D-Day", June 6, 1944, men of U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Flotilla No. 1, operating under all conditions off the French Coast, have rescued hundreds of Allied fighting men.