Beach Battalion "Ducks" Enemy Fire On Riviera Invasion
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Beach Battalion "Ducks" Enemy Fire On Riviera Invasion

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Photograph

Beach Battalion "Ducks" Enemy Fire On Riviera Invasion

1944
Gelatin silver print
18.7 x 24.2 cm.
Museum accession
Inscriptions verso-(printed) "2760" "From: Public Relations Division U.S. Coast
Guard Washington, D.C." "Official U.S. Coast Guard Photo"
"Beach Battalion 'Ducks' Enemy Fire On Riviera Invasion" A first wave
Beach Battalion is snapped by a Coast Guard Combat Photographer as it
lay (sic) low under the fire of Nazi guns on the beach of Southern
France on D Day. One invader operates a walkie talkie radio directing
other landing craft to the safest spots for unloading their parties of
fighting men." "In rewriting caption please mention 'Coast Guard.'"
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