Image:1944 NormandyLST.jpg

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Description

A LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) from the U.S. Coast Guard-manned USS Samuel Chase disembarks troops of the U.S. Army's First Division on the morning of June 6, 1944 (D-Day) at Omaha Beach.
Source

Famous Coast Guard Photographs (direct image URL [1])
Also The Coast Guard at Normandy "The Jaws of Death" (direct image URL [2])
Date

June 6, 1944
Author

Chief Photographer's Mate (CPHOM) Robert F. Sargent, U.S. Coast Guard
Permission
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Public domain; official U.S. Coast Guard photograph
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Public domain This image is a work of a United States Coast Guard service personnel or employee, taken or made during the course of a serviceman or employee's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain (17 U.S.C. § 101 and § 105).


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