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26-G-2002: Operation Avalanche, September 1943

26-G-2002: Operation Avalanche, September 1943. Coast Guardsmen Help Wounded Aboard. U.S. Coast Guardsmen help slightly wounded soldiers, including the German wearing a peaked cloth cap, come aboard the combat transport lying off Paestum, just south of Salerno and one of the invasion points. Coast Guardsmen manned combat transports and landing craft. Official Coast Guard Photograph. Photographed through Mylar sleeve. Courtesy of the Library of Congress: Lot-916. (2016/05/19).
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Caption: Operation Avalanche, September 1943. Coast Guardsmen Help Wounded Aboard. U.S. Coast Guardsmen help slightly wounded soldiers, including the German wearing a peaked cloth cap, come aboard the combat transport lying off Paestum, just south of Salerno and one of the invasion points. Coast Guardsmen manned combat transports and landing craft. Official Coast Guard Photograph. Photographed through Mylar sleeve. Courtesy of the Library of Congress: Lot-916. (2016/05/19).
Accession #: 26-G-2002
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