First Fleet the Story of the U S Coast Guard at War
First Fleet the Story of the U S Coast Guard at War

Author: Reg Ingraham

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2015-09-05

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9781341650079

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First Fleet
First Fleet

Author: Reg Ingraham

Publisher:

Published: 2013-10

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9781258861469

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This is a new release of the original 1944 edition.

The United States Coast Guard in World War II
The United States Coast Guard in World War II

Author: Thomas P. Ostrom

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2009-08-11

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0786453710

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At home and overseas, the United States Coast Guard served a variety of vital functions in World War II, providing service that has been too little recognized in histories of the war. Teaming up with other international forces, the Coast Guard provided crewmembers for Navy and Army vessels as well as its own, carried troops, food, and military supplies overseas, and landed Marine and Army units on distant and dangerous shores. This thorough history details those and other important missions, which included combat engagement with submarines and kamikaze planes, and typhoons. On the home front, port security missions involving search and rescue, fire fighting, explosives, espionage and sabotage presented their own unique dangers and challenges.

The U.S. Coast Guard in World War II
The U.S. Coast Guard in World War II

Author: Malcolm F. Willoughby

Publisher: Naval Institute Press

Published: 2016-02-15

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 1612519938

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The intimate view of the U.S. Coast Guard's dramatic World War II record has long been considered a classic. First published in 1957 and out of print for years, the book is now available in paperback. Handsomely illustrated with more than two hundred photographs, the book serves as a unique memento of one of the most illustrious periods in the Coast Guard's two hundred year history. The author offers a story replete with incidents of devotion far beyond the call of duty--daring rescues, adventurous high-sea missions, heroic combat action--to clearly demonstrate the vital role the service played in the Allied war effort. A seasoned World War I veteran who joined the Coast Guard Temporary Reserve in 1942, Malcolm Willoughby has covered every aspect of the Coast Guard's involvement in the war at sea, in the air, and at home. From the invasion of Normandy, where Coast Guardsmen landed thousands of Americans and rescued some 1,500 stranded in the surf, to Guadalcanal, where they rescued three companies of Marines trapped on the beach, this chronicle vividly recounts these well-documented operations and little-known stories of individual triumphs and tragedies as well.

Bloodstained Sea
Bloodstained Sea

Author: Michael G. Walling

Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13:

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"Complete with dramatic photographs of the Coast Guard in action, Bloodstained Sea brings this epic drama to life."--Jacket.