# U.S. COAST GUARD CAMERAMEN AT D-DAY INVASION NORMANDY JUNE 6, 1944 22794

Photographed by U.S. Coast Guard cameramen with additional scenes provided by the U.S. Navy and Army Air Forces, United States Coast Guard Report No. 4 is a short war film that shows the work of the USCG during the Allied invasion of Normandy as part of Operation Overlord. The film opens with footage of “D Day +3,” showing viewers destroyed or damaged tanks, trucks, and landing craft on the beaches of Normandy. The film then cuts to January 1944 where Coast Guard men train moving from ship to shore in Chesapeake Bay (01:22). A month later, men wait on transport ships as they make their way across the Atlantic; men crowd into the bunks on ship (02:11). Some write letters while others sew repairs to kill time. In March, Navy and Coast Guard barges practice landings along the British coast (02:48). LST and LCIs practice maneuvers required for beach landings (03:24). Trucks drive off one of the LSTs. Aerial footage shows viewers Allied planes as they bomb Nazi targets in France (03:55). A jeep is loaded onto a ship in preparation for the invasion (04:18); K-rations are moved aboard as well. On “D Day -3,” troops climb into LCVPs and leave the English town for the Navy transport ships (05:20). On 5 June, men wait on the LCIs to depart, waving to the crowd of British civilians (06:10). Troops sit for a church service at a port of embarkation (06:52). A Coast Guard officer briefs his men (07:23). LSTs and Transports move out into the English Channel. Warships move ahead (08:07),…

- Kind: Film
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/22794uscgcamermanatdday)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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