Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition! Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition! Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition and we'll all stay free! Praise the Lord and swing into position! Can't afford to sit around and wishin' Praise the Lord we're all between perdition and the deep blue sea! Praise the Lord we're on a mighty mission! All aboard, we're not a - goin' fishin; Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition and we'll all stay free!
CG Rescue Flotilla, the CG manned transports and the CG manned Landing Craft. All earned their pay this day.
For some reason, my childhood neighbors Dad just crossed my mind. He's getting up there now, but I remember him just mentioning that he was a boat engineer on the Coast Guard manned troop transport USS Bayfield. Never much detail.
Thanx Fireman 1st class Nelson, USCG.
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I just finished reading "The Bedford Boys". It's a compelling story of men from the Bedford Va National Guard who were modilized into the 116th Regiment of the 29th Division. Company A hit the beach at 0630 June 6. 19 soldiers from Bedford were killed that day, many in the first half hour, and altogether 22 died in Normandy. This made Bedford (pop 3,000)one of the hardest hit towns in America for casualties in WWII on a per capita basis.
As a result of this tragedy, the Army changed it's mobilization policies to prevent such a loss from recurring. I guess this was to the Army what the Sullivans were to the Navy. Tragedies both.
It was often said among the troops who landed on D-Day that you could tell if your coxswain was a Coastie or not just by the landing you made. If you had to swim to shore then he wasn't but if you got to walk (or run) in then you knew he was Coast Guard.
