Burning LCVP crusing toward Normandy, France, 1944

Official U.S. Coast Guard Photo, Gift of Jeffrey and Mary Cole.
Description: 

Photograph. Burning LCVP [landing craft, vehicle, personnel] cruising toward a coast. Official caption on reverse: "2342 / From: Public Relations Division / U.S. Coast Guard / Washington, D.C. / Official Coast Guard Photo / Texan Drove This Flaming Coast Guard LCVP to the Beach / Bursting in flame when Nazi machine gun fire exploded a hand grenade, this Coast Guard-manned LCVP, packed with troops, was piloted safely to the Normandy beach on D-Day by a 23-year-old Texan, Coast Guardsman Delba L. Nivens, coxswain, of Amarillo. Nivens unoladed his cargo of invaders and, assisted by his engineman and bowman, put out the fire and made the run back to his Coast Guard-manned assault transport in a hail of German machinegun and mortar fire." Normandy, France. 6 June 1944

Image Information

Donor: 
Ms. Mary E. Cole
Accession Number: 
2002.119.015
Date: 
06/06/1944
Location: 
Hometown: 
Branch: 
Theater of Service: 
European Theater of Operations (ETO)
Unit: 
Campaign / Event: 
Normandy (June 1944)
POW / KIA: 
Topical Subjects: 
Landing craft--American--France
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy
Collection Level: 
This collection consists of 36 official United States Coast Guard photographs of the European and Mediterranean Theater of Operation. The bulk of the photographs depict scenes from the Normandy invasion.
Geography: 
Normandie
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Landing craft--American--France
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy