[caww]

Out of the gaping mouths of Coast Guard and Navy Landing Craft, rose the great flow of invasion supplies to the blackened sands of Iwo Jima, a few hours after the Marines had wrested their foothold on the vital island. 1945.

45th FS - Lt. Ceil Dennis, atop Mount Suribachi on a July evening in 1945, looks out over the 21st Bomber Command installations and the ships anchored near the shore of Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands.

Same scene almost 65 years later

[caww]

Old Glory flying over Mt. Suribachi after the battle for Iwo Jima

[sasportas]

Out of the gaping mouths of Coast Guard and Navy Landing Craft,

While Coasties were brought to the Pacific to help as landing craft drivers, I don't think any of the landing craft were theirs. They were all Navy.

Landing craft such as these were for amphibious warfare, the "gator" Navy and Marines. The Coast Guard has never been part of the War Department, or Department of Defense as the Navy and Marines are. Amphibious warfare is not the Coast Guard.