Keywords: blackandwhite monochrome black and white Lot-741-8: U.S. Coast Guard, WWII. Port Security’s A Coast Guard Job. Fields of Death. Row on row, 2,000-pound blockbusters wait at the seaside for shipment to Allied airmen busy pulverizing the Axis. A sharp-eyed Coast Guardsman walks through the rows of bombs that represent future “crosses among the poppies” for the enemy. Guarding the bombs from saboteurs is part of the Coast Guard’s port security job. U.S. Coast Guard Photograph. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. Photographed through Mylar sleeve. (2016/06/03). Lot-741-8: U.S. Coast Guard, WWII. Port Security’s A Coast Guard Job. Fields of Death. Row on row, 2,000-pound blockbusters wait at the seaside for shipment to Allied airmen busy pulverizing the Axis. A sharp-eyed Coast Guardsman walks through the rows of bombs that represent future “crosses among the poppies” for the enemy. Guarding the bombs from saboteurs is part of the Coast Guard’s port security job. U.S. Coast Guard Photograph. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. Photographed through Mylar sleeve. (2016/06/03). |