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A LCVP (Landing Craft,Vehicle, Personnel) from the U.S. Coast Guard-manned USS Samuel Chase disembarks troops of the U.S.Army's First Division on the morning of 06.06.1944 D-Day at Omaha Beach. 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.