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Photograph of the Normandy Invasion   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Chief Photographer's Mate (CPHOM) Robert F. Sargent, U.S. Coast Guard
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Department of Transportation. U.S. Coast Guard. Office of Public and International Affairs. (04/01/1967 - 1985)
Title
Photograph of the Normandy Invasion
Description
  • Scope and content: Original Caption: Down the ramp of a Coast Guard Landing barge Yankee soldiers storm toward the beach-sweeping fire of Nazi defenders in the D-Day Invasion of the French Coast. Troops ahead may be seen lying flat under the deadly machine gun resistance of the Germans. Soon the Nazis were driven back under the overwhelming Invasion forces thrown in from Coast Guard and Navy amphibious craft.
  • General notes: This is the official title assigned by the Coast Guard.
Date 6 June 1944
date QS:P571,+1944-06-06T00:00:00Z/11
institution QS:P195,Q38945047
Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S)
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This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 513173.

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  • Record group: Record Group 26: Records of the U.S. Coast Guard, 1785 - 2005 (National Archives Identifier: 355)
  • Series: Activities, Facilities, and Personalities, compiled 1886 - 1967 (National Archives Identifier: 513164)
  • Former Local Identifier: 26-G-2343

NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-26-G-2343
Other Identifier: 05541
This is the NARA Internal Exhibit Tracking Number for the Public Vaults exhibit.
Search Identifier: siBig! Exhibit
Search Identifier: siLearning Center
Search Identifier: siNational History Standard Era 8

  • War and Conflict Number 1041
Source U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
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author name string: Department of Transportation. U.S. Coast Guard. Office of Public and International Affairs. 4/1/1967-1985
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reference URL: https://dp.la/item/f7bebd82d3be976e51c35c2de12b5d64
publisher: Digital Public Library of America
retrieved: 19 July 2023

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Original Caption: Down the ramp of a Coast Guard Landing barge Yankee soldiers storm toward the beach-sweeping fire of Nazi defenders in the D-Day Invasion of the French Coast. Troops ahead may be seen lying flat under the deadly machine gun resistance of the Germans. Soon the Nazis were driven back under the overwhelming Invasion forces thrown in from Coast Guard and Navy amphibious craft. (English)

determination method: determined by GLAM institution and stated at its website
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reference URL: https://dp.la/item/f7bebd82d3be976e51c35c2de12b5d64
publisher: Digital Public Library of America
retrieved: 19 July 2023

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