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June 6, 2025
Eddy Priestly and D-Day’s Saviors
Over the course of the Normandy invasion, Flotilla One’s cutters saved 1,438 men.
June 28, 2024
Coxswain for all invasions — Robert Ward and the Joseph T. Dickman at D-Day
The story of D-Day hero, Silver Star Medal recipient and FRC namesake Robert Ward.
June 14, 2024
D-Day hero Jack DeNunzio and LCI-94 at Normandy
Jack DeNunzio’s final breath would be forever recorded for posterity by a Coast Guard photographer and a world-renowned Life Magazine combat photographer.
June 7, 2024
Into the Jaws of Death — Coast Guard landing craft at D-Day
Story and images of CPO Robert Sargent, “Into the Jaws of Death” photographer.
May 31, 2024
“Love your Freedom, because that’s what we fought for” — D-Day Gunner’s Mate Frank DeVita
“There’s a cemetery right above Omaha Beach with 9,400 dead GIs. I go there every year and I cry, and I cry. They made the biggest sacrifice. They gave their lives so that we have freedom today.” - Frank DeVita
Oct. 27, 2023
The Long Blue Line: William Trump — Coast Guard hero of D-Day
The Coast Guard-manned LCI(L)s, or landing crafts, were 158-feet long and 23-feet wide and were the smallest sea-going amphibious crafts involved in the invasion.
June 3, 2022
The Long Blue Line: D-Day, 1944—MoMM2 Swierc and the heroic saviors of CG-16
The night of the invasion was unbelievable. There was a continuous flash of light in the sky and we could hear the bombs. It was nonstop fire. - Motor Machinist’s Mate Second Class Mike SwiercNearly 80 years have passed since Motor Machinist’s Mate Second Class Michael J. Swierc served on the Coast Guard Cutter CG-16 off Utah Beach during the
May 30, 2022
The Long Blue Line: Seaman First Class Fletch Burton—he went in harm’s way so others might live free
Memorial Day we remember those who gave all.
June 4, 2021
The Long Blue line: “Lucky Ox”—surviving the killing fields of D-Day
Operation “Overlord” led to the defeat of Nazi Germany and end of the Second World War in Europe. "Lucky Ox" being one of the Coast Guard heroes of the operation.
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