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

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.