Invasion Camera Goes for $8,500,000 In War Bonds. Captain Ellis Reed-Hill, Chief, Public Relations Division, Coast Guard, holds the camera with which Coast Guard Combat Photograph S. Scott Wigle, of Detroit, Michigan, made the first D Day invasion picture sent by radio from London to America. The camera was knocked down for a record $8,500,000 War Bond purchase by the Community Savings Bank of Rochester, in the coast-to-coast War Bond auction conducted over the Mutual radio network. Bids totalled more than $12,000,000. Prints of the Wigle photograph, showing LCI's headed across the c
Invasion Camera Goes for $8,500,000 In War Bonds. Captain Ellis Reed-Hill, Chief, Public Relations Division, Coast Guard, holds the camera with which Coast Guard Combat Photograph S. Scott Wigle, of Detroit, Michigan, made the first D Day invasion picture sent by radio from London to America. The camera was knocked down for a record $8,500,000 War Bond purchase by the Community Savings Bank of Rochester, in the coast-to-coast War Bond auction conducted over the Mutual radio network. Bids totalled more than $12,000,000. Prints of the Wigle photograph, showing LCI's headed across the channel under barrage balloons, were presented to all who bought extra bond and stamps through Victory Auction Broadcast.
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Keywords: 17-a2-170, 26-, coast, guard, history, job, rdss, rg
