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26-G-06-08-44-4

Normandy Invasion, June 1944. US Coast Guard landing boat afire from Nazi machine gun fire and explosion in boat of American soldier’s hand grenade, June 1944. (5/19/2015). * U.S. Navy LCVP landing craft from the attack transport USS Samuel Chase (APA-26) approaches "Omaha" Beach on "D-Day", 6 June 1944. The boat is smoking from a fire that resulted when a German machine gun bullet hit a hand grenade. After discharging his load of troops the boat's coxwain, Coastguardsman Delba L. Nivens of Amarillo, Texas, assisted by his engineman and bowman, put out the fire and returned to their transport. Note the beach obstacles just ahead of the boat

Date
1944-06-06
Photographer / author
National Museum of the U.S. Navy United States Coast Guard photograph by Robert F. Sargent
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
photograph
Original size
2,457 × 1,721 pixels

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"26-G-06-08-44-4" (1944-06-06). National Museum of the U.S. Navy United States Coast Guard photograph by Robert F. Sargent, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:26-G-06-08-44-4_(17718411008).jpg

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