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Normandy breakwater made from sunken ships : Photograph 1944.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Summary:
- Description: Normandy breakwater made from sunken ships in June 1944. Caption: "2963. From: Public Relations Division. U.S. Coast Guard. Washington, D.C. Official Coast Guard Photo. Violent storm battered Normandy Breakwater of sunken freighters druing invasion landings. Reducing the violence of a storm that blew in upon Normandy invasion operations soon after D-Day, a breakwater of sunken freighters shielded Allied landings and cut down the toll of destruction. Coast Guard officers, thoroughly briefed in their job, helped direct the planned sinking of 23 ships to form a breakwater. This photo, made by a Coast Guard Combat Photographer aboard an LCI(L), shows a mountainous wave spending its fury against the bulwark." Normandy.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource (viewed on June 12, 2019).
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