D-Day 63 years ago

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Troops and crewmen aboard a Coast Guard manned LCVP as it approaches a Normandy beach on "D-Day", 6 June 1944.

One of the spectacular actions of D-Day was the duel between the twisting snarling USS Emmons, a destroyer, and mobile 88 mm German guns on the Normandy cliffs near Port-en-Bessin. While searching out artillery which had been raking the support waves on the beach, she poured out 250 rounds of five-inch shells in the gun emplacements. (From here)

History here.