U.S. Coast Guard Aviation

U.S. Coast Guard Aviation

Author:

Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9781563113604

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Includes list of aviator numbers (names of all those who earned pilots wings, 1916-1996.


The Greatest Coast Guard Rescue Stories Ever Told

The Greatest Coast Guard Rescue Stories Ever Told

Author: Tom McCarthy

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2017-08-01

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1493027034

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Exciting rescue stories on the high seas! The Coast Guard’s rescue personnel are second to none, and Coast Guard air and sea rescue missions have been the subjects of celebrated newspaper accounts, books, and movies, including The Perfect Storm. The Coast Guard is one of the nation's five military services, which exist to defend and preserve the United States. In The Greatest Coast Guard Rescue Stories Ever Told, the editor has pulled together some of the finest writings about air and sea rescues that capture readers imaginations, culled from books, magazines, and elsewhere. It is an unforgettable collection, and includes stories by Kathryn Miles, Eric Hartlep, Gerald Hoover, Martha Laguardia-Kotite, Geoffrey D. Reynolds, Kalee Thompson, H. Paul Jeffers, and many others.


So Others May Live

So Others May Live

Author: Martha Laguardia-Kotite

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2008-09-02

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 0762793996

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Dramatic, compelling, downright unbelievable accounts of the Coast Guard's often unsung heros.


Coast Guard Rescue of the SeaBreeze off the Outer Banks, The: On Wings of Angels

Coast Guard Rescue of the SeaBreeze off the Outer Banks, The: On Wings of Angels

Author: Rear Admiral Carlton Moore USCGR (Ret)

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2021-05-03

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1467147044

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On December 17, 2000, Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, North Carolina, performed one of the most heroic rescues in the history of the service. The cruise ship SeaBreeze I was listing, battered by hurricane-force winds and thirty-five-foot seas. The ship and the lives of its thirty-four crewmen were in imminent peril. A rescue helicopter arrived and, seeing that the vessel could capsize at any moment, hoisted twenty-six of the crew to safety, a record for a single helicopter rescue. A second helicopter, designated for the celebration of the Wright brothers' first flight, arrived on scene in time to rescue the remaining crew. Rear Admiral Carlton Moore tells the complete history of this daring rescue, including never-before-printed radio messages from the rescuers.