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D-Day Invasion and Coast Guard Operations

Historic black-and-white photos depicting landing troops and Coast Guard operations during D-Day in Normandy, showcasing military action and beach scenes.

Coast Guard Sub-Chasers Take Posts. This image depicts a 83-foot Coast Guard cutter maneuvering for position to guard a coastwise convoy against enemy submarines.
Coast Guard Sub-Chasers Take Posts. This image depicts a 83-foot Coast Guard cutter maneuvering for position to guard a coastwise convoy against enemy submarines.
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Breakwater of Sunken Ships Shielded Landings on Normandy in Violent Storm. Strategic sinking of 23 freighters, bow to stern, on D-Day Plus One and Two, created a breakwater behind which Allied invasion craft unloaded troops and supplies during a furious storm that ripped the Normandy beaches. Six Coast Guard Officers, all experts in dealing with treacherous surf currents, participated in the supervision of the sinkings and were commended for their efficient accomplishment of the task. Here, a mountainous wave beats against one of the sunken vessels, as landing operations proceed.
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FotoCollection First World War. With The Troops in Mesopotamia. Armored Car Crossing Diala River .. 1914-1918}. Diala, Iraq, Mesopotamia
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Looking toward Newburgh from Battle Monument, Military Academy, West Point. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1901. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Military training , United States, United States Military Academy, West Point (N.Y.)
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Sinking of the Avenger. This image depicts the torpedoing of the British aircraft carrier Avenger. Artwork by Hunter Wood.
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Overboard in Full Fighting Gear. A fighting Coast Guardsman is give rigorous training under battle conditions. Plunging into the sea, rifle, helmet and all, he swims for shore, preparing himself for such an emergency in the far-flung sea fronts of the war.
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Keeps Alaskan Vigil For Mariners (2 of 7). At the left in this photograph is Arie Van Der Meet, Jr., boatswain's mate second class, of Seattle, Washington, who is in charge of the U.S. Coast Guard Light Station at Cape Hinchinbrook, Alaska. After a one-year tour of duty as a light keeper, he will be rotated back to the States. Here he is pointing out the sights at the station to Commander James S. Muzzy, also of Seattle, executive officer of the NORTHWIND, during the ship's refueling visit to Hinchinbrook. Behind them is the station, located on the east side of Hinchinbrook entrance to Prince William Sound in the Gulf of Alaska. Perched 235 feet above the sea, it was established in 1910, and rebuilt in 1935. The lantern is 67 feet above ground on one corner of the white, square tower, and the 200,000 candlepower light is visible for 22 miles. A radiobeacon and air diaphone fog signal complete the navigational facilities at the unit. Mail for the four men assigned to the station is deli
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American Gunners Hit the Bull's Eye. American Gunners Hit the Bull's Eye. Three Coast Guardsmen, serving on an assault transport in the Southwest Pacific, exhibit a Jap battle flag, left by enemy fleeing before American invaders of Los Negros Island in the Admiralty Islands. The American marksmen find that the Jap flag makes a good target with its big red bull's eye. In the group, left to right: Norman A. Strang, carpenter's mate second class, of Germantown, Pa.; Robert E. Chard, carpenter's mate first class, of Greenwich, Conn.; and Joseph Jacenty, carpenter's mate first class of Chatham, New Jersey.
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Peter Pelican Wounded in Action. Always ready to administer unto the wounded, Coast Guardsman Dushan (right), pharmacist's mate first class, warily approached injured Peter P. Pelican, a shrapnel casualty in American forces maneuvers on some South Pacific isle. A group of soldiers, working on a sandbag parapet, pause to watch the treatment. His curiosity overpowering his good sense (if any), Mr. Pelican had poked his elongated beezer in the line of fire.
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Dawn Over The Dead. Silhouetted in the golden glory of a Pacific sunrise, crosses mark the graves of American boys who give their lives to win a small atoll along the road to the Philippines. A Coast Guardsman comes in the early morning to stand in silent reverence beside the resting place of an American comrade-- one of the graves in the parched coral sands.
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Madrid, 7/8/1963. A fire that started on the night of July 7 destroyed the barrages and the roof of the Las Ventas bullring. The incident was put out by firefighters, who left a checkpoint of two cars at mid-morning to prevent the reactivation of the fire.
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Operation Deep Freeze, Icebreaker EASTWIND, "Antarctic Sunrise". Scene taken from the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker EASTWIND during Operation Deep Freeze 1961, by LTJG Arthur Bleich, USCGR. Prize winning photograph of the Military Photographer's Contest Picture of the Year.
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Coast Guard Training. At a U.S. Coast Guard Training School, invaders of tomorrow are taught the difficult art of swimming ashore, weighted down with full battle equipment.
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Prawning Made 1888 England. Photogravure, from Sun Artists, Number 6 (1891) . B. Gay Wilkinson
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Photograph of Antiaircraft Fire Streaking Through a Night Sky. Tentacles of Flame Reach Up For Jap Raiders. Japanese night raiders, stabbing at American invasion forces near Garapan, capital city of the Marianas, are met by hot fire from anti-aircraft batteries. Like giant skyrockets, the Yankee fire pierced the sky and appropriately it happened on a July night -- close to the historic Fourth.
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Pioneer department. .
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Coast Guard Diver Saw Baby Ten Minutes: Then Headed For Duty On Pacific Bottom. Strange sights has Coast Guardsman Floyd D. Barnard, 23, seen on the floor of the Pacific, but he has only seen his baby daughter, Marlene, one year old, for ten minutes. The baby was born the day he left for duty in the Pacific aboard a Coast Guard cutter. A Boatswain's Mate second class, Barnard is the ship's diver. His wife, Doris, and the baby await his return at their home, 2514 James Avenue, North, Minneapolis, Minn.
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Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Sometimes seven lines play "strike" time. "Trolls" successful reefs, predatory fishing houses. September 1954. Guinea, Seroon
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Up And Over - A Coast Guard Dog In Battle Training. This image depicts a Coast Guard Fighter dog, leaping up and over a high barrier.
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String Session: Sino-American Harmony. Aboard a Coast Guard-manned transport at sea near India, Chinese Air Cadets and Coast Guardsmen are attracted to Coast Guard Combat Artist Joseph P. DiGemma, of Brooklyn, N.Y. and his violin. It is a session of Chinese-American harmony, as two Chinese musicians play on their two-stringed instruments, called Hu-ching. At right is Coast Guardsman Arthur Witt, seaman first class, of 1255 40th Street, Brooklyn. Artist DiGemma, who is a specialist third class, lives at 7312 Narrows Avenue in Brooklyn. The Chinese Air Cadets are en route to the United States.
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Field weather station on the small Schlicht.Gegentgr.Gegnedul. (28 / 2,1917.).
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Brig Water Witch, Wrecked On Coast of Rhode Island, March 19, 1896. Lifesaving Service Activities and Equipment, 1918. Department of the Treasury
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Photo collection Spaarnestad topics. Destroyances Netherlands 1941/1945. The port of Amsterdam. Result Activities German destruction commands. One of the ships can be sinked in the North Sea canal and the inputs of the different ports. The Netherlands
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Stars And Stripes Unfurled Over Mount Suribachi. This image depicts old glory unfurled to the breeze a few seconds after Marines planted it on Mount Suribachi, at the southern tip of Iwo Jima.
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Training of divers to the sailing and diver school.
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Embarking for Tarawa Invasion. Somewhere in the Pacific, a Marine division embarks with alligators and big guns for the invasion of Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands. Manned by Coast Guardsmen, LSTs carried the Marines to the Jap-held atoll and debarked them for the historic seizure of the enemy island fort.
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Soldiers in the sea. Wehrmacht soldiers entertain themselves in the sea. Probably 1942 in Bergen aan Zee.
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World War II. American soldiers on Omaha Beach recovering the dead after the D-Day invasion of France. June 1944, by U.S. Army Signal Corps photographer, Walter Roseblum.
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Giovanni Bognetti, President of the Italian Touring Club.
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Suez. From the album: Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF, 1914, Suez, by Major John Rose.
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Coast Guard invaders. This image depicts various theaters the Coast Guard was involved in.
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German soldiers on motorbikes. German soldiers drive on engines by the sea. Text strip of photo stuck.
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This Tells That Man Has Served His Country to Fullest. Indicative of fearless and "all-out" service to his country, this U.S. Coast Guard Honorable Discharge pin proudly is worn by the ex-fighting Coast Guardsman who unhesitatingly performed his duty in uniform until discharged. For him it is the "key" back to proud and helpful work as a civilian. It is an insignia to be respected.
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Washington's Mishap in the Allegheny River with Christopher Gist in 1753 When En Route to the Ohio Country to Deliver a Message from Governor Dinwiddie to the French Commander at Fort Le Boeuf. Original caption: Washington's mishap in the Allegheny River with Christopher Gist in 1753 when en route to the Ohio to deliver a message from Governor Dinwiddie to the French commander at Fort Le Boeuf. History of the United States of America - William T. Harris et. Al. p287 Vol 1.
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National Test Exercise - Operation Ivy , Nuclear weapons testing, Nuclear weapons, Civil defense, Operation Ivy, Marshall Islands, 1952. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization