On guard at the entrance of Southern France invasion Planning Headquarters at an undisclosed port in the Mediterranean is Coast Guardsman George Mihalovitz, seaman first class, of Chicago, Ill.

Coast Guardsman standing watch over 78-foot torpedo boat. Continual watch is kept. Higgins Industries, Inc., New Orleans, La.

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). A Coast Guard sentry stands watch over a new torpedo boat under construction at a Southern shipyard. In addition to wooden torpedo boats, the yard also turns out many steel boats for the Navy. Higgins Industries Creator(s): Hollem, Howard R., photographer Re

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). A Coast Guard sentry stands watch over a new torpedo boat under construction at a Southern shipyard. In addition to wooden torpedo boats, the yard also turns out many steel boats for the Navy. Higgins Industries

A Coast Guard sentry stands watch over a new torpedo boat under construction at a southern shipyard. In addition to wooden torpedo boats, the yard also turns out many steel boats for the Navy. Higgins Industries, Inc., New Orleans, La.

"Two Ohio Coast Guardsmen John R. Smith, on the left, and Daniel J. Kaczorowski stand at their gun aboard a Coast Guard-manned invasion transport on which they served during the invasion of Normandy.", ca. 1941 - ca. 1945

"Richard Salter, CK 3/c, a talker of a gun station, aboard the U.S.S. Tulagi (CVE-72) off the coast of southern France.", 08/1944

SC 191872 - Pvt. Thomas J. Maliga, Mountaindale, N.Y., and the adjutant of Gendarmes of cherbourg on patrol at a street corner in Cherbourg. 17 July, 1944

Coast Guardsman standing watch over 78-foot torpedo boat. Continual watch is kept. Higgins Industries, Inc., New Orleans, La.