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| | Euphoric Reality :: Pro-military, pro-America, anti-stupidity. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Another Coast Guard LCVP skipper said, “My eyes were glued to the boat coming in next to ours, and on the water in between, boiling with bullets from hidden shore emplacements, like a mud puddle in a hailstorm. |
 | | The Coast Guard lost more vessels that day than on any single day during its history, mute testimony to the ferocity of the German defenders and the bravery of the crews who took the infantry right to the enemy’s doorstep. |
 | | Carrying out the Coast Guard’s time-honored task of saving lives, albeit under enemy fire on a shoreline thousands of miles from home, the cutters of Rescue Flotilla One saved more than 400 men on D-Day alone and by the time the unit was decommissioned in December, 1944, they had saved 1,438 souls. |
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