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The flagship for U.S. operations on D-Day was the Coast Guard-manned assault transport USS Bayfield
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The Coast Guard on D-Day / June 6th, 1944 / Weather / Weather reports from Coast Guard cutters in Greenland caused Eisenhower to change the day of the assault / Landing Craft / 35 Coast Guard landing craft took U.S., Canadian, and British troops ashore in multiple waves / Photographs / Most of photos of D-Day were taken by Coasties, including “Into the Jaws of Death” / Matchbox Fleet / 60 wooden Coast Guard patrol boats saved over 400 soldiers and sailors that day / [hull: CG-83404]