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World War II Coast Guard veteran visits cutter in Port Townsend for Fourth of July | Peninsula Daily News
![The Coast Guard | Fighting for the Right to Fight: African American Experiences in World War II: Exhibit at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans The Coast Guard | Fighting for the Right to Fight: African American Experiences in World War II: Exhibit at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans](http://righttofightexhibit.org/images/coast-guard/stewards.jpg)
The Coast Guard | Fighting for the Right to Fight: African American Experiences in World War II: Exhibit at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans
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![American soldiers aboard a U.S. Coast Guard assault transport off the coast of Normandy, France, 1944 | The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories American soldiers aboard a U.S. Coast Guard assault transport off the coast of Normandy, France, 1944 | The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories](https://49fe30bb3aa7406c16dc-5c968119d095dc32d807923c59347cc2.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/2002.119.021_1.jpg)
American soldiers aboard a U.S. Coast Guard assault transport off the coast of Normandy, France, 1944 | The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories
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