Keywords: groupshot people blackandwhite monochrome black and white 26-G-2047: Operation Avalanche, Invasion of Salerno, September 1943. They Helped Push the Nazis Back. These four crew members of a tank lighter attached to a U.S. Coast Guard manned transport helped push the Germans back from the beaches at Paestum, near Salerno. Manning a 50 caliber machine gun, Coast Guardsman Richard Cook, second from left, during the lighter’s first trip to the beach successfully broke up a Nazi machine gun nest. From left to right: Coast Guardsman Leonard Ruehle; Coast Guardsman Cook; US Navy sailor A.E. Lessard; and US Navy sailor Harry W. Lesson. (5/19/2015). 26-G-2047: Operation Avalanche, Invasion of Salerno, September 1943. They Helped Push the Nazis Back. These four crew members of a tank lighter attached to a U.S. Coast Guard manned transport helped push the Germans back from the beaches at Paestum, near Salerno. Manning a 50 caliber machine gun, Coast Guardsman Richard Cook, second from left, during the lighter’s first trip to the beach successfully broke up a Nazi machine gun nest. From left to right: Coast Guardsman Leonard Ruehle; Coast Guardsman Cook; US Navy sailor A.E. Lessard; and US Navy sailor Harry W. Lesson. (5/19/2015). |