Coast Guard Invasion Rescue Flotilla Men on Alert. They were the Death's-Head emblem of skull and crossbones on their helmets. These Coast Guard Invasion Veterans but theirs is an errand of mercy. Here, members of an 83-foot Coast Guard rescue cutter – part of the now famous flotilla which rescued hundreds of men from the cold Channel waters off France – keep alert watch while on patrol.

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Photo credit: © NB/USC / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: 17-a2-170, 26-, coast, guard, history, job, rdss, rg