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USCG-1

No caption. No date listed; probably June 6, 1944. Photo No. 205. Photo taken by "Sargent." The USCG-1, formerly CG-83300, escorted the first waves of landing craft into the Omaha assault area on D-Day morning. Her crew pulled 28 survivors from a sunken landing craft out of the English Channel right off the beaches before 0700, 6 June 1944. First in her class, she was originally commissioned as CGC-450 in 1941.

Date
1944
Photographer / author
U.S. Coast Guard
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
photograph
Original size
1,206 × 966 pixels

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Reason: a US government work (US Coast Guard).

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"USCG-1" (1944). U.S. Coast Guard, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USCG-1.jpg

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