Taxis to hell - and back – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Taxis to hell - and back, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The title, "Taxis to hell - and back," was the sort of gallows humor troops used for the landing craft that carried them ashore in Normandy in June 1944. This official Coast Guard photograph captures that shuttle service. Coast Guard crews ran many of the landing craft that moved infantry from transport ships through the surf toward the beaches on D-Day and in the days that followed. The image is a useful reminder that the invasion depended as much on small, crowded boats and their crews as on the warships offshore.
| Created / published | 1944 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver. |
| Genre | Gelatin silver prints 1940-1950. |
| Notes | From the collections of Encyclopedia Britannica. Official Coast Guard photograph. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Exhibited: Churchill and the Great Republic, Library of Congress, 2004, and other venues, 2004-2005. |
| Subjects | World War, 1939-1945--Amphibious operations--France--Normandy. Landing craft--American--France--Normandy--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,457 × 1,177 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218590 |
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