French Coast dead ahead--helmeted Yankee soldiers crouch, tightly packed, behind bulwarks of a Coast Guard landing barge in the historic sweep across the English Channel to the shores of Normandy [graphic].

French Coast dead ahead--helmeted Yankee soldiers crouch, tightly packed, behind bulwarks of a Coast Guard landing barge in the historic sweep across the English Channel to the shores of Normandy [graphic]. still image Photographic prints 1940-1950. gmgpc [1944] Photograph by U.S. Coast Guard. No. 2340. Joseph J. Spagnola Collection. World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns & battles--France--Normandy. Military personnel--American--France--Normandy--1940-1950. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b38734 No known restrictions on publication.