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Description Landing on the coast of France under heavy Nazi machine gun fire are these American soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division, shown just as they left the ramp of a Coast Guard landing boat.
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NARA image 26-G-2343/Vendor #93 (direct image URL [1])

Also on NARA's Pictures of World War II page (direct image URL [2])
Author Chief Photographer's Mate (CPHOM) Robert F. Sargent, U.S. Coast Guard
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Public domain; official U.S. Coast Guard photograph
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This image or file is a work of a United States Coast Guard service personnel or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image or file is in the public domain (17 U.S.C. § 101 and § 105, USCG main privacy policy and specific privacy policy for its imagery server).

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6 June 1944

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