Anti-aircraft gun on a US Coast Guard transport during the landing in Normandy, France; June 1944.

Protection against air attack

A Coast Guard assault transport which landed American soldiers on the coast of France during the invasion of the continent is now pressed into action to remove the wounded Americans from the beaches for transportation to another port for medical attention.

Removing the wounded

U.S. Army nurses sunbathe beside a 40-mm anti-aircraft gun and its crew aboard a Coast Guard-manned troop transport, returning to the States.