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Show On Every Beachhead, It's the Coast Guard That Puts 'Em AsW j ' Coast guardsmen landed the marines ma-rines at Tulagi. They were under fire at Guadalcanal. They were in there again at Tarawa. They manned landing Darges storming the beaches of Cape Gloucester and Bougainville, Kwajalein and Eniwe-tok Eniwe-tok in the Marshals, Hollandin and Wakde and Biak In the invasion of Dutch New Guinta. i More recently, when navy task forces moved against Saipan in the j Marianas, coast g'jard'imen operat- ed assault transports and tank landing land-ing ships, and coxswains and gun crews were at their posts in the LCVPs that swarmed to the Saipan beaches. On the other side of the world, coast guardsmen landed 'em in North Africa, on Sicily and at bloody Salerno. On D Day when the Liberation Lib-eration Armada swept across the English channel to breach Hitler's vaunted Festung Europo in Normandy, Nor-mandy, coast guar-lvaer. were un- -u A it co jljih Asiiore der the terrific Nazi fire that mnrt a literal hell of the beach ,tt LSTs Las HPrBted transS Lbrs, LCIs and landing barges in hose heavily mined waters. A nt l" a of coast guard 83-footcrsdl bb' match boxes"-boldy lessly poked amidst wreckage Z, 800 American and Allied soldiers H sailors n the first 24 hours of sion under heavy shell-fire from G,r man si :,re implaccmcHs. |