Shells fired from battleship Texas exploded near Vierville on the Normandy coast, Jun 1944Battleship Texas firing at targets along the Normandy coast, Jun 1944A makeshift monument to a fallen American soldier at Normandy, France, Jun 1944Two Ohio United States Coast Guard men, John R. Smith and Daniel J. Kaczorowski, at their gun aboard a transport off Normandy, circa Jun 1944