US soldiers debarking from landing craft onto a beach, Normandy, 1944
Official U.S. Coast Guard Photo, Gift of Jeffrey and Mary Cole.
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Photograph. American soldiers debark landing craft onto a beach covered with barbed wire. Official caption on reverse: "2357 / From: Public Relations Division / U.S. Coast Guard / Washington, D.C. / Official Coast Guard Photo / Liberation Forces Strike in France / From Coast Guard landing craft, invasion troops emerge to help secure the Allied beachhead in Normandy. Coast Guard LCIs, LSTs and LCVPs rolled to the beaches packed with troops and fighting equipment. Coast Guard assault transports fed the smaller landing barges from off the French coast." Normandy, France. June 1944
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1944-06-
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This collection consists of 36 official United States Coast Guard photographs of the European and Mediterranean Theater of Operation. The bulk of the photographs depict scenes from the Normandy invasion.
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Normandie
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Landing craft--American--France
Soldiers--American--France
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy