Amphibious Assaults and Landings

Historic images of soldiers in landing crafts during World War II amphibious assaults, demonstrating military strategies on beaches.

Supply Line to Europe. A large convoy of merchant ships move over smooth seas in the Atlantic under the watchful protection of a Coast Guard combat cutter. At least 15 ships are visible from this outlook on the bridge of the cutter.

"Julia," The Alligator Crawls Up on Saipan. Packed with invaders, an amphibious tractor crawls through the waters off Saipan to stab into Jap defenses on that strategic Jap island of the Marianas, less than 1,500 from Tokyo. The alligator's name, painted on its side, is "Julia." This picture of Pacific invasion was made by a Coast Guard combat photographer from a landing barge heading in toward the beach.

Strange New "Enemy" Opposes Coast Guard's Latest Landings. This image depicts Coast Guardsman moving toward the shore of a remote island in the Aleutians where they will install aids to navigation to guide shipping in the Northern Sea lanes. Their landing was met by hundreds of lumbering, angry sea lions whose mating season they disturbed.

First Waves at Iwo. This image depicts landing crafts, part of the first waves at Iwo Jima.

Good Neighbors. Coast Guardsmen watch these Schouten Island natives, apparently happy to be rid of their Japanese conquerors, as they pay a friendly visit via outrigger canoe, to a Coast Guard-manned LST, after the Allied invasion of Noemfoor Island in the Pacific.

Coast Guard-Manned LCIs Landed 'Em in Southern France. Columns of infantry landing craft steam through the waters of the Mediterranean with the beaches of Southern France as their goal. Manned by Coast Guard and Navy crews and loaded with troops, these LCIs struck in the early morning of August 15 and quickly established beachheads between Marseilles and Nice.

Supply Line to Europe. A large convoy of merchant ships move over smooth seas in the Atlantic under the watchful protection of a Coast Guard combat cutter. At least 15 ships are visible from this outlook on the bridge of the cutter.

U.S. Coast Guard Officers and Crew watch the explosion of a depth charge. This image depicts U.S Coast Guard officers and crew intently watch the explosion of a depth charge calculated to burst the plates of any enemy submarine within range.

While Wounded are Brought. While wounded are brought aboard a Coast Guard manned transport during the invasion of Sicily, other troops leave to join the invasion forces.

Ready For Action. This image depicts a Coast Guard gun crew, wearing the new steel combat helmets, standing alert and ready for action aboard a Coast Guard cutter.

Hells Ahead. This image depicts amtracts rushing the beaches of Iwo Jima.

On The Bounding Main. This image depicts a Coast Guard cutter plowing through the mountainous waves on anti-submarine patrol.

Battle Drill. This image depicts Coast Guardsmen performing a battle drill at their gun.

Coast Guard Cutter Sinks Sub. This image depicts the Coast Guard cutter Spencer before it engages with and destroys a German submarine.

Changing "Sea Horses" in Mid-Stream at Peleliu. Coast Guard-manned landing barges are blocked by coral reefs in the shallow surf off Peleliu Island, so pontoons and derricks are moved up under heavy Jap mortar fire and supplies are transferred into alligators. Tracs on the alligators enable them to crawl over the reefs and move on to the beachhead. These transfers were made under fire at the height of the battle for the vital southwest pacific island in the Palaus group, only 515 miles from the Philippines.

Over the Oil "Pipeline" to Europe. Closely guarded by U.S. Coast Guard fighting craft the steady stream of vital oil flows in tanker convoys over the Atlantic to Europe. Here, the gun watch aboard a tanker eyes the parade of ships and the horizon where lurking U-Boats may be waiting for a chance to loose torpedoes.

Landing Barges Maneuver for Smash into Southern France. A swarm of LCVPs, many manned by Coast Guardsmen, maneuver in Mediterranean waters in last minute preparation for the sweep against the beaches of Southern France. Hundreds of these landing barges, packed with troops and handles by Coast Guard crews, established a new European beachhead early today. (Aug. 15).

Coast Guard Still Nation's Helping Hand; First Fleet Celebrates 155th Anniversary. From ship to ship - A Navy Destroyer transfers one of its crew, who has been stricken with appendicitis, for immediate operation aboard a Coast Guard-manned troop transport in Mid-Atlantic. A blinker signal message from the destroyer was all that was necessary for the Coast Guard to start immediate preparation for the ailing man's transfer and surgical care. That's the way it has been since the nation's first fleet was established on Aug. 4, 1790. It's the way it is today as the Coast Guard gets set for the celebration of its 155th anniversary on Aug. 4, 1945. The Coast Guard has been many things to many people - a sea-going handyman, a Navy fleet of mercy, the nation's helping hand through 155 years of "surf and storm and howling gale".

The Busy "Island Hoppers" Manned By Coast Guardsmen for Army in Pacific War. This image depicts the troops relaxing aboard a Coast Guard-manned army FS (Freight Supply) somewhere in the far Pacific.

All Quiet on the Atlantic Front. This image depicts a Coast Guard cutter guarding a convoy of merchant ships.

Mercy Accompanies Invasions (1 of 4). Following the invasion lines, mercy machine are lowered from a Coast Guard manned transport into an invasion craft for transportation to shore. Coast Guardsmen handle the machines as carefully as if they already contained wounded. The vehicles, plainly marked with the Red Cross, accompany the troops spearheading the attack against the Nazis.

""What bothered us"". This image depicts Coast Guard-manned invasion barges during training off the East Coast of the United States.

A Coast Guard "Duck" Takes To The Sea. Coast Guardsman launch a reconnaissance plane from the deck of their cutter somewhere in the Pacific. In a matter of seconds skilled hands man the boat crane that lifts the plane from its cradle and lowers it over the side. Two Coast Guardsmen ride the wings in the launching process to keep the ship in balance. Once in the sea, the lines are cast off and the "Duck" as the crewmen call it skims the surface and flies away.

Coast Guard Brings Wounded Invaders From Saipan. Out from the shell-torn beaches of Saipan where stubborn Japanese resistance rolled up American casualties of more than 9,000 killed, wounded and missing, a Coast Guard-manned landing craft moves with a load of wounded invaders toward a Coast Guard-manned assault transport anchored off shore. Three weeks of bitter fighting finds the Yankees in possession of seven-eighths of the Jap stronghold in the Marianas.

Invasion Bound. This image depicts artwork of a Coast Guard-manned LST en route to an invasion, painted by Coast Guard Combat Artist John J. Floherty Jr. (Alt. Name of artist - John F. Floherty).

Survivors of a U-Boat attack rest aboard a ship. They are looking weary and anxious, having escaped a harrowing experience. The image shows the aftermath and resilience of those who have miraculously made it through the attack.

Christmas At Sea. This image depicts a Coast Guard cutter crossing the shipping lanes, guarding a convoy of supplies to America's fighting men.

A photograph of the U.S.S. Arizona in 1919. This image was taken by the Navy Department photographer and assigned the identification number 43701. It is one of several photographs captured during military activities in World War One. The U.S.S. Arizona is depicted in the photo.

Enlisted Man Takes Over The "Pulpit". This image depicts a Sailor preacher leading hymn singing and gives the Lord's word to his shipmates aboard a Coast Guard manned LST the day before hell broke loose on Iwo Jima.

Photograph of Sailors on Lookout. This image depicts a Coast Guardsmen looking through binoculars.

Alert for Submarines. This image depicts a Coast Guardsman on the lookout for submarines.

Photograph of Men Moving a Body on Deck of Ship. The image shows men transporting the wounded or dead.

Victory Brings Coast Guardsmen No Rest. Ramming the sixth Nazi U-Boat she encountered within 12 hours left the gallant Coast Guard cutter Campbell with a 12-foot hole in her side below the waterline. The cofferdam resting on deck was constructed to plug the hole and is about to be slid over the side. Her engine room flooded, the Coast Guard cutter had to be towed 800 miles to an unnamed East Coast port for repair.

Coast Guard Fire Fighters. This image depicts a Coast Guard fire fighting boat. Converted fishing trawlers were equipped with modern fire fighting devices and manned by U.S. Coast Guard men.

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Prauwen at a submarine in the waters of the Dutch East Indies, c. 1920 - c. 1930 photograph Part of photo album of the Kleiterp-Vermeulen family with recordings of the Dutch East Indies. Dutch East Indies, The paper. photographic support submarine. rowing-boat, canoe, etc. Dutch East Indies, The

Coast Guard Anti-Submarine Patrol. Two U.S. Coast Guard planes are shown somewhere over the Atlantic Coast as they go down the ramp and head for the North Atlantic Convoy Patrol.

Coast Guard Firefighters. This image depicts a demonstration of the Coast Guard's hoses in Boston.

Waves of Men and Waves of Water. This image depicts Coast Guard-manned landing barges during training in the South Pacific.

Coast Guard Gives a Hand with the Casualties. Wounded in the assault upon the shores of the Riviera in Southern France, an American soldier is eased up over the side of a Coast Guard-manned assault transport from a landing barge. Coast Guardsmen carefully handle the stretcher on which the wounded invader reclines.

Marines behind the cannons on a torpedo ship in warfare in reconnaisance in the Adriatic Sea, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLII, No 50, December 12, 1915.

Convoy Gun Crew. This image depicts Coast Guardsmen manning the cutter's guns.

Admiral Evans leaving the Mayflower after calling on the President, Naval Review, Oyster Bay.. Hawley C. White Company

Pacific Patrol. This image depicts a sunset on the Pacific as protective guns on a Coast Guard cutter stand out against the setting sun.

Off. From the album: Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF, 1915, Çanakkale Bogazi, by Major John Rose.

Outline at Queen Victoria in the event of war prisoners in 1944.

Coast Guard Cutter. This image depicts a Coast Guard cutter engaging a German submarine.

The Coast Guard Captures 28 Germans Seeking To Operate Greenland Weather Base. This image depicts a Nazi expedition to Greenland's waters end in frustration and capture after a dramatic chase.

Coast Guard's Dog Team Trip on Baffin Island. The dog teams are aroused, and the Eskimos apply the whip. This is about the only language the dogs understand - they are not pets, as we know our dogs. The men will ride some of the time, but will also do a lot of mushing, or traveling on foot. Officers and crew of the Coast Guard Icebreaker Eastwind line rail to watch a sight most of them have never seen before, and may never see again. Equipment needed for the hydrographic mission is loaded on the sledges, strong wooden vehicles with low runners, curved at the tip. Hooded parkas protect the men from the bitter cold.

H-Hour at Iheya Shima. The tongue-like ramp of a U.S. Coast Guard-manned LST-831 emerges from the vessel's open jaws as Marines of the second division prepare to pour ashore on Iheya Shima, small island lying northwest of Okinawa. The attacking Marines met virtually no opposition.

Photograph of Landing Barges Moving Toward Shore at Saipan. Saipan, Another Jap Bastion, Falls to the Yanks. In go the landing barges, loaded with Yankee fighters and manned by Coast Guardsmen, to sweep the beaches of Saipan and thrust the Jap defenders, fighting fanatically, back into the canefields and ravines of Saipan, Jap stronghold in the Marianas. Standing off the coast is a Coast Guard-manned assault transport, from which the invasion "buggies" swarm to shore.

Picking Up Survivors. (FRANCE) 14/7/44 - Just released by US Navy censors is this picture of US Coast Guard and Navy small craft picking up survivors from a sunken vessel. Only the stack and masts of which are visible above the waters of the French coast. (OFF Coast Guard FOTO) Signal Corps Radio Telephoto from London, #1400.

War album 26, picture 7160.

The Wounded Come Back from the Far Pacific. Down the gangway from a Coast Guard-manned invasion transport, wounded Yankee fighters are assisted as Coast Guard crewmen wish them good luck. The wounded are being debarked at a mid-Pacific base where they will be hospitalized. They are casualties from the recent invasions in the expanding fringe of American attack. Aboard the Coast Guard-manned transport, they received expert medical care and with the best of facilities.

Stars and Stripes Over the Marshalls. From a Coast Guard-manned combat transport, this picture of the shore of Ninni Island in Kwajalein Atoll shows the American flag waving in triumph after Marines had swarmed ashore and captured the Jap stronghold. Coast Guard and Navy crews manned the landing craft.

Coast Guard Rescue Craft Shelled by Nazis. Twin spouts boil close off the stern of a U.S. Coast Guard invasion rescue craft in the English Channel as Nazi shore batteries pour shellfire into the mighty Allied liberation fleet. Their wooden hulls exposed to heavy fire, these Coast Guard 83-footer rescued hundreds from the channel as enemy fire scored hits on invasion ships.

Photograph of Cuban Patrol Boat With Refugees Off Anguilla Island. Communist Cuban Naval PT boat off Anguilla Island.

The Fog Warning, Winslow Homer still image. Postcards. 1905 - 1915. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Fishermen

The Coast Guard Links British and French Railroads. Out of the massive jaws of the U.S. Coast Guard-manned (LST) (landing ship, tanks) rolls a string of railroad cars, loaded with vital war supplies in England and delivered in France. The Coast Guard-manned ship ferries rolling stock from a British port to a French beach railhead, forming a floating link between the railroads of the two countries. Priceless hours, unloading and reloading, are saved by running packed cars into the track-equipped tank deck of the LST and carrying them across the English Channel to roll down a tracked ramp onto French rails. From this point, trainloads of war equipment and supplies move smoothly and swift off to the fighting front.

Coast Guard Depth Charges Score in Last U-Boat Killing, USS Moberly. Off Point Judith, Rhode Island, crewmen of the Coast Guard-manned Frigate USS MOBERLY watch the surface boil as a pattern of depth charges scores the final kill in the long, uphill battle against Nazi vessels, the Coast Guard ship destroyed the submarine on Sunday, May 6. The MOBERLY operates as a unit of the Atlantic fleet.

Filipino Youngsters Welcome Coast Guard Beach Party. Hitting the beaches of Leyte Island in General MacArthur's historic return to the Philippines, a Coast Guard beach party is warmly welcomed by Filipino children who appeared on the beaches soon after the Japs had been driven inland. The Coast Guardsmen went in from invasion transports in landing barges and tank lighters. Soon after the original strike, miles of Leyte's shorefront was piled high with the supplies for the peaceful American liberation forces.

Exploding Depth Charge. This image depicts a depth charge exploding from the perspective of someone on a Coast Guard ship.

Coast Guard Fighter-Writer Pitches in on Salvage Craft. Coast Guardsman Daniel Henkin, specialist first class, of Washington, D.C., is covering as a fighter-writer, the invasion of the Palau Islands in the Far Pacific. But here, Henkin lends a hand in a salvage boat's operations, helping to haul a broached landing barge off the beach of Angaur Island.

""Thar She Blows"". This image depicts Coast Guardsmen letting go a depth charge.

Photo collection First World War. Le Navire de Guerre "Hamidie" entrant Dans Le Port d'Odessa. 1914-1918}. Odessa, Ukraine

Rome Italy may 1951 Vintage photograph of Italian military sailors on a small boat in a harbor during the 1950s

Coast Guard Searches Wreckage of Ill-fated Airliner. This image depicts Coast Guard vessels searching the wreckage of Linea Aeropostal Venezolana Flight 253 which caught fire and crashed in the Atlantic Ocean.

Scene During Battle Practice, A Salvo Striking the Water. 1911 - 1918. National Archives at College Park - Archives II (College Park, MD). Photographic Print. Department of the Navy. Fourth Naval District. Philadelphia Navy Yard. 1909-9/1947. Photographs of Early Naval Flight and Gunnery Practice

For Victory -- The Price is High. On the beach at Saipan, a dead Marine is moved by litter bearers to the burial ground as bitter Jap resistance rolled up heavy casualties among the invasion forces of Army troops, Marines, Coast Guardsmen and Navy fighters. Three weeks of fighting brought the fall of Garapan, capital city of the Marianas, and hemmed the stubborn Nips in a strangling corner on the northern coast of Saipan.

Photo collection First World War. The British Advance in The West. Kite Balloon About to Ascend 10/7/16. July 10, 1916

Mercy Accompanies Invasions (4 of 4). Fighting U.S. Coast Guardsmen in the invasion barge tenderly help this wounded warrior aboard the Coast Guard manned transport transferring him to another point for more extensive treatment of his injuries. Thanks to new discoveries and improvement off older medical treatment; the percentage of fatalities among battle wounded has been slashed in this way.

Gunnery. This image depicts a gunner and his gun.

KAMERAD! Capture By Coast Guardsmen Ends Nazi Weather Plot In Greenland. This image depicts a boat of Germans surrendering to a Coast Guard combat cutter after a 70 mile chase through ice-clogged waters off of Greenland.

View of Coast Guardsmen. This image depicts a group of men on board a Coast Guard ship.

Major Project. 1939-01-01T00:00:00. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Coast Guardsmen Train French Troops. This image depicts Coast Guardsmen training Free French and Algerian soldiers in amphibious landing.

Salvage Crew in the Solomons. Three Coast Guardsmen from a Coast Guard-manned assault transport in the South Pacific are engaged in salvaging useful material from battered and beached Japanese landing craft on an island near Guadalcanal. They are, left to right: Peter Caruso, seaman second class of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Frank Brewer, fireman first class, of Chicago, Illinois; and Lieut. (j.g.) Gordon C. Reinoehl, of Jasper, Texas.

War album 26, picture 7163.

Lower Away. Down goes a jeep from the deck of a Coast Guard-manned assault transport into a landing craft, also manned by Coast Guardsmen, during amphibious maneuvers of Coast Guard and infantry units somewhere in the European war theatre.

Airview- Looking West to Spectacle Island , Islands. Photographs of the First Naval District

Photograph of Cesar Romero with Fellow Coast Guardsmen Aboard Transport.

Coast Guards plane evacuates injured sailor. This image depicts a Coast Guard plane evacuating an injured sailor from the vessel S.S. R.E. WILSON.

Photo collection First World War. With the British Navy in War Time (Liverpool). Unloading Cotton From a Ship at the Docks. 1914-1918}. Great Britain, Liverpool

Photograph of Painting of a Sinking Ship. This image depicts a painting by Coast Guard Combat Artist William Goadby Lawrence.

In Arctic Waters. In arctic waters, a Coast Guard cutter on patrol duty inspects a fjord for any sign of enemy activity. It was in such surroundings as this that a Coast Guard cutter apprehended Nazis endeavoring to set up a secret radio station. No waters are too remote for a Coast Guard ship to penetrate, and many "skippers" are more familiar with the Arctic Circle than they are with their homes ashore.

Invasion of Southern France. This image depicts artwork of the preparation of an invasion barge during the invasion of southern France, painted by Coast Guard Combat Artist Tore Asplund.

'Gib'. From the album: Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF, 1914-1916, Gibraltar, by Major John Rose.

The Coast Guard Marks Navigation Channels. Among the difficulties in keeping buoys functioning properly during winter is their becoming coated with ice and capsizing, making them useless to mariners. Here the crew of a Coast Guard Cutter, with axes and a hose, free an ice-encrusted buoy, a hazardous task at best.

Instantaneous Marine View.. Unknown maker, American

Men and Might. This image depicts the gun-bristling deck of an LST, shown for the first time in a photo taken by a Coast Guard officer who's ship participated in the American storming of the Aleutians.

Learning to Be Nimble on Deck. Sailing a schooner is part of the experience of cadets in training for officers' commissions at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. Connecticut. Though cadets no longer receive all their training aboard ship, they still spend weeks at sea as well as with small boats on the Thames River. Traditions of the Coast Guard are based on its personnel's skill in seamanship.

Coast Guard Gunner. This image depicts artwork of a Coast Guardsman manning a machine gun while soldiers board a barge during the invasion of the Marshall Islands, drawn by Coast Guard Combat Artist Sandor C. Klein.

War album 108, Figure 33237.

Fire Fighters of The Pacific. This image depicts forces advancing ever closer to Japan. The burden of security work has become lighter along our own Coast line and heavier in the distant pacific zones.

Tribute to naval personnel, Saint -Malo, 1920 - 1939 in the First World War photograph SAINT-MALO baryta paper gelatin silver print beach. saluting with flag. reunion, memorial gathering (~ veteran soldiers) SAINT-MALO

Shore Leave the Hard Way. Coast Guardsmen from the Asbury Park, NJ station bring a man ashore from a stranded freighter. Forced aground during a raging northeaster off the New Jersey Coast, the ship presented a life-saving problem which the Coast Guard solved with their breeches buoy equipment.

After the Hell of Shells. Beauty of Leyte's palm-fringed beaches is marred by the devastating shellfire of American Naval guns that preceded the amphibious assault that drove a liberation wedge into the central Philippines. Coast Guardsmen and troops, rifles readies, move cautiously along the shore, wary of Jap snipers hiding in the cover of the toppled trees.

Gen'l H. Haupt. A.J. Russell (American, 1830 - 1902)

Coast Guard Lookout In Pacific. This image depicts a Coast Guard combat cutter skirting an island "somewhere in the South Pacific." Lookouts keep an unceasing watch for signs of the enemy.

Sos by Mirror from Life Raft. Sunlight reflections from mirrors have been found practicable in simulated rescue tests made by Coast Guardsmen attached to an East Coast air station. Mirrors, stowed in the gear of life rafts, are used to flash sunlight signals to passing planes. Here, Coast Guardsmen Donald Patterson, aviation machinist's mate third class, of Zanesville, Ohio, signals a plane as Philip Jacobs, aviation machinist's mate, of Philadelphia, Pa. mans the oars of the life raft somewhere off the Coast.

War ship, presumably French off the coast of southern France, c. 1900 - c. 1910 photograph Part of photo album of a French amateur photographer with recordings of a family, Distillery Delizy & Doistau Fils, the army and sights in France. South France paper. photographic support sailing-ship, sailing-boat (with NAME) South France

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