Creator(s): Department of Transportation. U.S. Coast Guard. Public Affairs Staff. Historian's Office. ca. 1967- ? (Most Recent)
Series: Moving Images Relating to Coast Guard Activities, 1967 - 1992
Record Group 26: Records of the U.S. Coast Guard, 1785 - 2005
Production Date: 1944
Scope & Content: Soldiers and Coast Guardsmen practice amphibious landings in the United States and Great Britain; they play cards, sleep, write letters, and mend clothes aboard a transport. Shows allied planes bombing German positions in France, jeeps going aboard LST's, and troops embarking in LCV's and transports for the invasion. Airborne troops drop on Normandy and amphibious forces go ashore. German prisoners taken in the invasion embark on U.S. transports. Wounded U.S. troops are transferred from LCI's to hospital ships. Shows wrecked war material on Normandy beaches.
Contact(s): National Archives at College Park - Motion Pictures (RDSM), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road
College Park, MD 20740-6001
Phone: 301-837-3540, Fax: 301-837-3620, Email: mopix@nara.gov
National Archives Identifier: 5952
Local Identifier: 26.7
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