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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

Notes and Documents, Summer 1944

Description: Notes and Documents column including resolutions honoring Colonel A. N. Leecraft, an announcement of a memorial to Joseph Samuel Murrow, excerpts from accounts of the Masonic lodges, a list of the recent acquisitions to the society's library, a list of names for the Oklahoma War Memorial, a list of military camp papers received by historical society, a list of Oklahoma newspapers, and the minutes for the quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical society held on Apri… more
Date: Summer 1944
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Oklahoma War Memorial - World War II: Part 5

Description: Article continues to honor the men from Oklahoma who have died fighting in World War II after the last publication of a similar list. The country would continue to be a major player in the war until 1945.
Date: Winter 1944
Creator: Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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