17-6-7 Garand Picture of the day
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How many M1 Garand Rifles can you find?
The wait aboard the LCI (L) -326 for the men of the 90th US Infantry Division en route to Utah.Beach
the 90th landed in the 6 to 8 June 1944
Photo by Harold A. Barclay crossed during the LCI (L) -326,
The Coast Guard-manned USS LCI(L)-326 was commissioned on 31 October
1942 and was assigned to Coast Guard-manned LCI(L)-Flotilla 4. After
proceeding across the Atlantic to Bizerte, North Africa from Norfolk, where she
had arrived after shakedown exercises, she made preparations for the invasion of
Sicily on July 9, 1943. Two months later she landed troops at Salerno.
Proceeding to England as part of the same flotilla, now renamed Flotilla 10, late in
October 1943 she arrived at Plymouth on November 3, 1943, and was engaged
from then until D-day in amphibious training on the beaches of Southern England,
for the invasion of Normandy. On June 6, 1944, she landed troops at Utah Beach
and from then until her departure from Falmouth on October 5, 1944, was
engaged in transporting troops, acting as a cross channel guide and in other
operational and logistical duties.
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Arriving at Charleston, South Carolina on October 24, 1944, she proceeded to
Jacksonville, Florida, where she was drydocked and underwent repairs and
overhaul until December 12, 1944, when she returned to Charleston and then to
Little Creek, Virginia and Solomons Island, Maryland, where new officers and
crew were given amphibious training. She departed Norfolk December 26, 1944,
for San Diego, California, arriving via Key West and the Canal Zone on January
22, 1945, for amphibious training at the Naval Repair Base until April 3, 1945.
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