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[Photograph 2012.201.B1351.0800]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Landing on the coast of France under heavy Nazi machine gun fire are these American soldiers, shown just as they left the ramp of a coast Guard landing boat."
Date: July 6, 1944
Creator: Coast Guard Photo
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1351.0790]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Scene on deck of a coast guard-manned LCI boat, before she rolled her shell-torn hull and sank off the coast of France, between the furled stretchers and the barrels which shows bullet bashes lies the body of a dead American soldier, while the wounded x can be seen in the companionway."
Date: August 6, 1944
Creator: Coast Guard Photo
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1351.0799]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "With a heavy list to a port, this coast guard LCI craft pulls alongside a transport to evacuate her troops and wounded, just before she capsized and x sank during first invasion day."
Date: August 6, 1944
Creator: Coast Guard Photo
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1351.0798]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The crew of this fatally hit coast guard LCI craft has just vacuated troops and wounded to an assault transport and pulled away from the coast."
Date: August 6, 1944
Creator: Coast Guard Photo
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1351.0796]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "American troops waded through the surf to the Normandy shore from their landing craft on June 6,1944, as the Allies landed in France to open the final phase of World War II."
Date: June 6, 1944
Creator: United States. Army.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0875.0436]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Sgt. Willis W. Martin, 35, of Ardmore, Okla., wounded in right arm with 45th Division at Salerno, Italy."
Date: January 15, 1944
Creator: Nancarrow, T. G.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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