American soldiers aboard a United States Coast Guard assault transport; Normandy; June 6, 1944.

Approaching the Normandy coast

Smoke streams from a landing craft hit by machine-gun fire as it approaches Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944.



Scene from the landings

US Coastguardsmen in action by firing an AA gun to fend off enemy attack. Likely in the Pacific, ship unknown.

ack-ack gun blazing

Coast Guard Lt. R. J. Campbell walks by a group of captured German officers aboard a US Coast Guard ship, taking them to England; 1944.

Free sailing to England

USS LCI(L)-326 (on the right) off-loading 90th Infantry Division troops into LCVPs (Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel = Higgins boat) for landing on Utah Beach, Normandy, France; June 6, 1944.

Bound for Utah Beach

LCM landing craft, evacuating casualties from the invasion beaches, brings them to a transport for treatment, on D-Day, 6 June 1944.

Evacuating casualties

A US Coast Guard crewed landing craft heading to Omaha Beach, June 6. 1944...

On the Way

  As part of the massive amphibious force created for The Normandy Invasion, LCI(L)-93 took part in the landings at Omaha Beach on D-Day, 6 June 1944. After offloading its second cargo of American troops, the vessel became stranded between the shore and a sandbar. German Artillery then opened fire on the vulnerable ship, seriously wounding several soldiers and Coast Guardsmen. 
  Badly damaged, LCI(L)-93 was lost as a result of this action.



Landing Craft Infantry (Large); R.I.P.

German POWs captured at Anzio, Italy are loaded into USS LST-381 to be taken away to a collection point; 3 February, 1944.


Cargo for return voyage

USS LST-351 beached at Normandy, France, with three crew members posing in front of the Landing Ship Tank; summer, 1944.


Posing in front of LST

LST-68 beached at Oro Bay, New Guinea, South Pacific Ocean, as US Marine casualties returning from the battle zone in Cape Gloucester, New Britain and transferred into waiting WC54 ambulances; 8 January, 1944.

Combat casualties transferred

USS LST-68 beached at Cape Gloucester, on the northern side of the far west part of the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea. unloading vehicles and supplies; June 1944.

Supplies coming in

A Coast Guard operated landing craft moves wounded U.S. soldiers from Eniwetok atoll, Marshall Islands, in the South Pacific; February 1944.

Transporting casualties

U.S. Coast Guardsmen ferrying supplies past an LCM-3 (Landing Craft Mechanized) which has taken a direct hit at Tarawa  Atoll, north-east of Australia, in the Central Pacific Ocean; October, 1943. 

Ship to shore supplies

U.S .Coast Guardsmen with captured Japanese soldiers at Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, South Pacific; February 1944. 


Ride on a boat

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.

Hope they made it safely back

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

 Coast guardsmen line the rails to give a hand to GI Joes coming up over the side of a Coast Guard-manned assault transport for last-minute invasion maneuvers somewhere off the coast of England. Helmeted and carrying fighting equipment, the American soldiers are on their way to practice amphibious landing in preparation for the invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europe. Coast Guardsmen manned these landing crafts in the battle drills and in the D-Day assaults.

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