Photograph. American servicemen wading towards a smoke-covered beach, as seen from the deck of a landing craft. Official caption on reverse: "2343 / From: Public Relations Division / U.S. Coast Guard / Washington, D.C. / Credit line must read 'Official U.S. Coast Guard Photo' / 'Into the Jaws of Death' / Down the ramp of a Coast Guard landing barge Yankee soldiers storm toward the beach-sweeping fire of Nazi defenders in the D-Day invasion of the French Coast. Troops ahead may be seen lying flat under the deadly machinegun resistance of the Germans. Soon the Nazis were driven back under the overwhelming invasion forces thrown in from Coast Guard and Navy amphibious craft. / In rewriting caption please mention 'Coast Guard.'" France. 6 June 1944