Photograph of a German Flag Being Used as a Table Cloth While a Coast Guard Officer Plays Host to Two Army Officers at Tea. Tea for Three. A German flag, captured at "Hell's Corner," Carentan, France, is used as a table cloth while a Coast Guard officer plays host to two Army officers at tea aboard a Coast Guard-manned LST off the invasion coast of France. The officers are (l. to r.): Coast Guard Ensign Louis A. Schulte, 1511 Columbus Avenue, SANDUSKY, OHIO; Major Lloyd B. Patch, 204 Howard Street, BROCKTON, MASS.; and Major Carl A. Buechner, ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, FLORIDA. Ensign Schulte is engin
Photograph of a German Flag Being Used as a Table Cloth While a Coast Guard Officer Plays Host to Two Army Officers at Tea. Tea for Three. A German flag, captured at "Hell's Corner," Carentan, France, is used as a table cloth while a Coast Guard officer plays host to two Army officers at tea aboard a Coast Guard-manned LST off the invasion coast of France. The officers are (l. to r.): Coast Guard Ensign Louis A. Schulte, 1511 Columbus Avenue, SANDUSKY, OHIO; Major Lloyd B. Patch, 204 Howard Street, BROCKTON, MASS.; and Major Carl A. Buechner, ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, FLORIDA. Ensign Schulte is engineer officer aboard the LST, which landed troops in Normandy on D-Day. Major Batch, a 1938 graduate of Boston University, was awarded to DSC by Lieutenant General Omar Bradley for gallantry in action while participating in the capture of a German light artillery battery. Major Buechner, a 1939 graduate of the U. S. Military Academy, commanded an infantry battalion during the invasion of France.
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Keywords: 17-a2-170, 26-, coast, guard, history, job, rdss, rg
