Coast Guard-manned LCIs and smaller landing craft rafted in England just before the voyage across the English Channel to Normandy. (U.S. Coast Guard) Coast Guard-manned LCIs and smaller landing craft rafted in England just before the voyage across the English Channel to Normandy. (U.S. Coast Guard) American soldiers in a cramped troop compartment of a Coast Guard-manned LCI. (U.S. Coast Guard) The fog of war on D-Day as Allied landing craft put ashore troops on June 6th at Omaha Beach. (U.S. Coast Guard) LCI(L)-90 as photographed by crewmember, Signalman John R. Smith, Jr., USCGR, showing battle damage received on D-Day. (Courtesy of Robert Smith)