Image:1944 NormandyLST.jpg

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Summary

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 )
Also The Coast Guard at Normandy "The Jaws of Death" (direct image URL )
Date

June 6, 1944
Author

Chief Photographer's Mate (CPHOM) Robert F. Sargent, U.S. Coast Guard
Permission
( Reusing this image)

Public domain; official U.S. Coast Guard photograph
Other versions

Many versions exist, with sometimes signifcant differences:

  • Defense Visual Information Centre photograph HD-SN-99-02700 (War & Conflict book #1041)
  • Naval Historical Centre photograph 26-G-2343
  • NARA image 26-G-2343/Vendor #93 (also different versions here, here, and here)
  • U.S. Army file #CG 2343

Licensing

Public domain This image or file is a work of a United States Coast Guard service personnel or employee, taken or made during the course of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image or file is in the public domain (17 U.S.C. § 101 and § 105).


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    Hephaestos, 16:17, 29 Mar 2004 Joseaperez, 10:39 6 jun, 2004 Joaotg, 03:10, 6 Jun 2004

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