Shore Patrol servicemen examining downed Spitfire on a Paestum beach, Italy
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Photograph. Two Shore Patrol servicemen examining a downed Spitfire on the shoreline of a beach; LST-359 is in the background. Official caption on reverse: "From: Public Relations Officer / U.S. Coast Guard / Washington, D.C. / Official U.S. Coast Guard Photo / Forced Landing on Invasion Beach / Combat ended with a forced landing on the beach at Paestum, Italy, for this Spitfire being examined by a U.S. Coast Guardsman and soldier. Note the three swastikas painted on the cockpit of the plane. U.S. Coast Guardsmen manned combat transports and landing craft, one of which appears in the background." Paestum, Italy. No date
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01/01/1944
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This collection consists of 36 official United States Coast Guard photographs of the European and Mediterranean Theater of Operations. The bulk of the photographs depict scenes from the Normandy invasion and feature the USS Samuel Chase (APA-26).
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Paestum
Latitude:
40.417
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15.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Mustang (Fighter plane)--Italy
Airplanes--American--Italy
Landing craft--American--Italy
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy