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Flaming LCVP speeds toward Normandy coast during invasion : Photograph 1944.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Summary:
- Description: Flaming LCVP speeds toward Normandy coast during invasion in June 1944; notice the defended coastline in background. Caption: "2342. From: Public Relations Division. U.S. Coast Guard. Washington, D.C. Official Coast Guard Photo. Texan drove this flaming Coast Guard LCVP to the beach. Bursting in flame when Nazi machine gun fire exploded a hand grenade, this Coast Guard-manned LCVP, packed with troops, was piloted safely to the Normandy beach on D-Day by a 23-year-old Texan, Coast Guardsman Delba L. Nivens, coxswain, of Amarillo. Nivens unloaded his cargo of invaders and, assisted by his engineman and bowman, put out the fire and made the run back to his Coast Guard-manned assault transport in a hail of German machinegun and mortar fire." Normandy.
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