Invasion of Normandy
D-Day: National Archives 58

Private William Bonneville, U.S. Army, after an exhausting struggle with the chill currents of the English Channel, is wrapped in a blanket and given hot coffee in the galley of the Coast Guard Rescue Cutter (credited with more than 1,100 rescues since D-Day) that picked him out of the water. Source: U.S. National Archives, # 26-G-2690.

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Private William Bonneville, U.S. Army, after an exhausting struggle with the chill currents of the English Channel, is wrapped in a blanket and given hot coffee in the galley of the Coast Guard Rescue Cutter (credited with more than 1,100 rescues since D-Day) that picked him out of the water. Source: U.S. National Archives, # 26-G-2690.

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