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Photograph of United States Coast Guard servicemen moving military vehicles ashore during a landing at Sicily, Italy, circa 1943.Typed caption glued to verso: "U.S. Coast Guard aids Allied offensives. U.S. Army vehicles move ashore onto a beach in Sicily as men of the U.S. Coast Guard unload a landing vessel. The Coast Guard, a wartime branch of the U.S. Navy, observed its 153rd birthday on August…
Photograph of landing barges, manned by United States Coast Guard personnel, and amphibious trucks on a beachhead in Sicily, Italy, circa 1943.Typed caption glued to verso: "U.S. Coast Guard aids Allied offensives. Landing barges manned by U.S. Coast Guardsmen and heavily-laden amphibious trucks land supplies on a beach in Sicily for the use of Allied infantry advancing beyond the ridges in the…