Today was that day in 1944… D-Day. As such I’m willing to guess you’ll see several posts on the subject of the Normandy Landings. Here are some great pictures I found over this past week, of course with Coast Guard related-ness, leading up to and on June 6, 1944. These were found on denverpost.com’s MEDIA CENTER.
(Above) A U.S. Coast Guard LCI, heavily listing to port, moves alongside a transport ship to evacuate her troops, during the initial Normandy landing operations in France, on June 6, 1944. Moments later the craft will capsize and sink. Note that helmeted infantrymen, with full packs, are all standing to starboard side of the ship. (AP Photo)
(Above) A U.S. Coast Guard landing barge, tightly packed with helmeted soldiers, approaches the shore at Normandy, France, during initial Allied landing operations, June 6, 1944. These barges ride back and forth across the English Channel, bringing wave after wave of reinforcement troops to the Allied beachheads. (AP Photo)
(Above) Under heavy German machine gun fire, American infantrymen wade ashore off the ramp of a Coast Guard landing craft on June 8, 1944, during the invasion of the French coast of Normandy in World War II. (AP Photo)
Kevin Stroyeck
Thanks, here is the link to the after-action report from LCI(L)-85's skipper LTJG Hendley, USCGR. Things were pretty hairy that day:
Concerning the LCI listing image; my late father, RM3 Roy A. Stroyeck,USNR, was aboard that vessel LCI(L)-85 as she attempted landing at Omaha Beach Red. She sank a short time later. LCI(L)-85 was carrying members of the U.S 6th Naval Beach Battalion.
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