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26-G-2047: Operation Avalanche, September 1943

26-G-2047: Operation Avalanche, September 1943. They Helped Push the Nazis Back. These four crew members of a tank lighter attached to a U.S. Coast Guard manned transport helped push the Germans back from the beaches at Paestum, near Salerno. Manning a 50 caliber machine gun, Coast Guardsman Richard Cook, second from left, during the lighter’s first trip to the beach successfully broke up a Nazi machine gun nest. From left to right: Coast Guardsman Leonard Ruehle; Coast Guardsman Cook; US Navy sailor A.E. Lessard; and US Navy sailor Harry W. Lesson. Official U.S. Coast Guard Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2015/5/19).
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Accession #: 26-G-2047
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