Creator(s): Department of Transportation. U.S. Coast Guard. Public Affairs Staff. Historian's Office. ca. 1967- ? (Most Recent)<br />Series: Moving Images Relating to Coast Guard Activities, 1967 - 1992<br />Record Group 26: Records of the U.S. Coast Guard, 1785 - 2005<br /><br />Production Date: 1944<br /><br />Scope & Content: Soldiers and Coast Guardsmen practice amphibious landings in the United States and Great Britain; they play cards, sleep, write letters, and mend clothes aboard a transport. Shows allied planes bombing German positions in France, jeeps going aboard LST's, and troops embarking in LCV's and transports for the invasion. Airborne troops drop on Normandy and amphibious forces go ashore. German prisoners taken in the invasion embark on U.S. transports. Wounded U.S. troops are transferred from LCI's to hospital ships. Shows wrecked war material on Normandy beaches.<br /><br />Contact(s): National Archives at College Park - Motion Pictures (RDSM), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road<br />College Park, MD 20740-6001<br />Phone: 301-837-3540, Fax: 301-837-3620, Email:
[email protected]<br /><br />National Archives Identifier: 5952<br />Local Identifier: 26.7<br /><br /><a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5952" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5952</a>
