Coast Guard's Roving Rescuers Cheat Death in the Channel. Two of the more than 1,400-- from their "doughnut" life raft, two fliers are helped aboard an 83-foot Coast Guard rescue cutter, after their mosquito bomber crashed in the English Channel, adding two more lives saved to the record of the Coast Guard's "match box" flotilla since D-Day. Seated in the raft is Michael Gribbin, RAF flying officer of Oxfordshire, England; and about to climb up the life net is Robert Griffith, RCAF flight officer, of Toronto, Canada, survivors of the mosquito crash. Coast Guardsmen in the picture are: Ensign N
Coast Guard's Roving Rescuers Cheat Death in the Channel. Two of the more than 1,400-- from their "doughnut" life raft, two fliers are helped aboard an 83-foot Coast Guard rescue cutter, after their mosquito bomber crashed in the English Channel, adding two more lives saved to the record of the Coast Guard's "match box" flotilla since D-Day. Seated in the raft is Michael Gribbin, RAF flying officer of Oxfordshire, England; and about to climb up the life net is Robert Griffith, RCAF flight officer, of Toronto, Canada, survivors of the mosquito crash. Coast Guardsmen in the picture are: Ensign Norris Nemer (back to camera), Commanding Officer of the cutter, 3900 Sunnyside Road, Minneapolis, Minn.' William Castleman (beyond Nemer), Chief motor machinist's mate, 5332 West Adams Street, Chicago, Ill.; and Leo Grahm (kneeling right), Quartermaster second class, 505 Trollinger Street, Burlington,
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