Leroy Bowen as he looked when he joined the Coast Guard and participated in the D-Day invasion of Omaha Beach - and the way he looked in 2004. - Photo from 2004 anniversary edition of Home News Tribune

One of the "Great Generation"

USCG Medical Officer aboard an LCT prepares a blood transfusion for a crewman hit by German shell fragments. The vessel pulling away from Omaha Beach was hit three times by an enemy shore battery.(rudeerude)

Blood transfusion

"Bilgewater", mascot of the US Coast Guard Academy, "models" the new cap design for Coast Guard cadets, 1945.  Caps, coats, newspapers, silk shawls, rare medieval manuscripts - cats can see only two possible uses for any of them - sleep on them if they are comfy, or scratch them to shreads if they are not ... Best regards, JR.