Photograph of Columns of Coast Guard LCIs Advancing upon the Beaches of France in the Wake of the Stars and Stripes

Original caption: Old Glory Moves to New Glory-Columns of Coast Guard LCI's, protected by barrage balloons against low flying Nazi strafers, advance upon the beaches of France in the wake of the Stars and Stripes. A Coast Guard combat photographer, going into the invasion on an LCI, caught this picture of the advance guard of the Liberation Fleet in the English Channel.



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