"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.

Catcap.

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"

Dempsey was in the United States Coast Guard during World War II.