Allied fleet underway in the Atlantic Ocean towards Normandy, France during World War II. A Coast Guards officer speaks into a microphone. Two officers on the bridge of a cutter as they talk. An LST ( Landing Ship Tank ) with an LCT ( Landing Craft Tank ) tied alongside. Equipment on the deck of an LCI. A patrol boat with an LCI ( Landing Craft Infantry ) tied up alongside. The patrol boat pulls up along side other patrol boats. The bows of the patrol boats with Liberty ships anchored in the background. A patrol boat underway. Another patrol boat passes in the background. American and Coast Guard flag fly aboard a patrol boat.
Allied fleet at Normandy, France during World War II. A Cutter being beached at a coast in Normandy. A Coast Guard patrol boat with a cargo net hanging over its side. The bow of a patrol boat and a wrecked landing craft in the background. A wrecked patrol boat. Soldiers walk past in the foreground. Patrol boats docked as American flags fly aboard them. Four patrol boats tied up along side one another. Men come out of a hatch on a patrol boat. Two men come near a ready box and grab two 20 mm magazines. Gun crew mans a 20 mm anti aircraft gun. A man puts on a magazine. A patrol boat and two cargo vessels anchored in the background.
Landing craft ferry Allied troops from pier in English port as they prepare for invasion of France during World War II. Two United States Coastguardsmen pose with members of British Women's Royal Navy Services (WRENS). Some British soldiers seated in a park with civilians on benches in the background. LCVPs ( Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) tied up at the pier in Weymouth, Dorset. American soldiers are assisted by U.S. Coastguardsmen as they board LCVPs, which pull away from the pier as they are filled (ferrying troops out to transport ships). Several Landing Craft Infantry (Large) are seen in the port, including LCI(L)s 494, 92, and 490. View of Weymouth from a boat flying a green flag, in the bay.
Allied fleet underway in the Atlantic Ocean towards Normandy, France during World War II. Two United States Coast Guard men aboard an LCI ( Landing Craft Infantry). A British battleship of the Warspite class underway at sea. A British transport ship underway. A British Coast Guard, with a Red Cross on his steel helmet, smokes a cigarette aboard a vessel. A destroyer of Livermore class underway at sea. An LST ( Landing Ship Tank) with a barge pushed up to the loading ramp. A Landing Craft Infantry loaded with soldiers at sea. A signal man mans a 24 inch signal light on the signal bridge of a vessel. He unlocks the pivot of the 24 inch signal light.
Allied fleet underway in the Atlantic Ocean towards Normandy, France during World War II. The barrel of an open 5 inch 38 caliber mount. A man in a foul weather gear on a lookout in the foreground. A man works on a blinker light. A transport ship underway in the background. A boat crew readies an LCM ( Landing Craft Mechanized ). Gears of a winch in operation. A U.S. Coat Guard Lieutenant in a blue uniform and a garrison cap with two men on the deck of the ship. An anchor chain comes up. A hawsepipe as a stream of water goes down and washes the chain. Coast Guardsmen on the deck of a transport ship as they get ready to lower a gangway. Coast Guardsmen make a splice in a line.
Allied fleet underway in the Atlantic Ocean towards Normandy, France during World War II. Interior of a troops compartment aboard a ship. Allied soldiers check rifles in the compartment. Two soldiers clean a water cooled 30 caliber browning machine gun. Two soldiers clean the firing mechanism of a machine gun placed on a tripod stand. A soldier cleans the barrel of a carbine. Men clean a machine gun.
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