Douglas A. Munro (U.S. Coast Guard), Medal Of Honor. KIA on Guadalcanal, September 1942

Douglas A. Munro

Coast Guardsman standing watch over 78-foot torpedo boat. Continual watch is kept. Higgins Industries, Inc., New Orleans, La.; 1942 July; LC-USW361-199

Torpedo Boat Guard

A Texan drove this flaming Coast Guard LCPV to the beach. Bursting in flame when machine gun fire exploded a hand grenade, this Coast Guard-manned LCVP, packed with troops, was piloted safely to the Normandy beach on D-Day by a 23 year old Texan Coast Guardmen. He unloaded his cargo of soldiers and, assisted by his engineman and bowman, put out the fire and made the run back to his Coast Guard manned assault transport in a hail of German machine gun and mortar fire.(rudeerude)