US Coast Guard on the on the 5th and 6th June 1944.

Mute 35mm b/w footage shot by US Coast Guard cameraman Chief Photographer’s Mate Whitwer on the US CG-manned attack transport USS Samuel Chase (Assault Group O-1) on the 5th and 6th June 1944. 01:00:54 An ex-Channel ferry converted into an assault ship belonging to Assault Group O-4?with US Rangers on board on USS Samuel Chase’s port quarter with the Dorset coast in the background: a US CG officer on the Chase’s port bridge wing peering through binoculars at invasion craft belonging to Force O heading for France: a sequence of shots of two columns of US infantry landing craft heading out into the English Channel past the coast of Dorset - filmed on Chase’s port side next to a 20mm Oerlikon gun position. 01:02:09 A Gleaves/Benson-class US Navy destroyer steaming at high speed across the English Channel and overtaking the USS Samuel Chase on its starboard side: US infantry landing craft steaming in two parallel columns on Chase’s port quarter, with the English coast receding in the background: views of a column of US attack transports heading across the English Channel on Chase’s port bow (possibly the USS Henrico the closest to the Chase). 01:03:01 An ex-Belgian cross-Channel ferry converted into an infantry assault ship at sea on Chase’s port beam, framed by two 20mm Oerlikon positions. Two senior officers belonging to 16th RCT, 1st US Infantry Division “Big Red One,” morning posing for the camera in their steel helmets and in conversation with the Chase’s skipper, Captain Edward H Fritsche and his tall Executive Officer on the Chase’s signal deck. 01:04:16 Dawn breaking on D-Day 6th June 1944 over the Bay of the Seine ten miles off OMAHA Beach, a US Navy tugboat and USS Dorothea M Dix, an attack transport on Chase’s starboard beam: looking down on Chase’s port railing as GI medics lower a big waterproof sack containing medical supplies over the side. 01:04:44 One of Chase’s assault landing craft (LCVP) heads off through rough seas for EASY RED sector of OMAHA Beach with men from the 16th Infantry Regiment’s E Company on board. 01:04:54 Formations of 9th AF B-24 Marauder bombers fly high overhead Sea level views on board an LCVP as it and other assault craft start their journey to OMAHA Beach in rough seas some time mid-morning on D-Day and as Whitwer’s own craft pulls away from the USS Samuel Chase’s port side, with two other assault ships in Assault Group 0-1 (USS Henrico, Dorothea M Dix and HMS Empire Anvil) anchored in the background.