Songs of Home on the Eve of Battle. Jamming the forecastle of a Coast Guard combat cutter in the Mediterranean, the men who smashed into Southern France are entertained with songs of home and jive numbers in the final hours before Europe's second D-Day. In the distance is the packed bay of an undisclosed Mediterranean port from which the invasion fleet steamed to the attack.

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Keywords: 17-a2-170, 26-, coast, guard, history, job, rdss, rg