Today's Coast Guard Heroes
Author: Joyce Markovics
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 37
ISBN-13: 1617724483
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes recent acts of bravery and heroism performed by Coast Guard personnel.
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Rescue Warriors
Author: David Helvarg
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2009-05-12
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 142998953X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Extraordinary Story Of The U.S. Coast Guard Since its founding more than two hundred years ago, the United States Coast Guard has rescued over a million people. On any given day, "Coasties" respond to 125 distress calls and save over a dozen lives. Yet despite having more than 50,000 active-duty and reserve members on every ocean and on our nation's coasts, great lakes, and rivers, most of us know very little about this often neglected but crucial branch of the military. In Rescue Warriors, award-winning journalist David Helvarg brings us into the daily lives of Coasties, filled with a salty maritime mix of altruism and adrenaline, as well as dozens of death-defying rescues at sea and on hurricane-ravaged shores. Helvarg spent two years with the men and women of the Coast Guard, from the halls of their academy in New London, Connecticut, to the frigid, storm-tossed waters of Alaska's Bering Sea, to the northern Persian Gulf, where they currently guard Iraqi oil terminals. The result is a masterpiece of adventure reporting---the definitive book on America's "forgotten heroes."
A Coast Guardsman's History of the U.S. Coast Guard
Author: C D Kroll
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2010-10-15
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1612518761
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore a book about Coast Guard heritage than an academic history, this book focuses on a variety of relatively unknown Guardsmen who personify the service’s core values. The author highlights contributions of a variety of individuals, from seamen to admirals on active duty, as well as reservists, auxiliarists, and civilian members of Team Coast Guard. These heroes, representing a great diversity in age, sex, race, and ethnicity, set an example worthy of emulation and serve as role models for today’s Coast Guard men and women.
Heroes of the US Coast Guard
Author: John M. Shea
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Published: 2012-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781433972416
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book introduces some of the heroes of the US Coast Guard from the 1918 rescue work of John Allen Midgett to the 2010 rescue work of Christopher Austin.
The U.S. Life-Saving Service
Author: Ralph C. Shanks
Publisher: Costano Books
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780930268169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSubtitled Heroes, Rescues and Architecture of the Early Coast Guard, this very complete record of the people, technology, architecture and exploits of the U.S. Life-Saving Service is a large-format book illustrated with 446 photographs and maps. It is especially strong on the wonderful and regionally varied architecture of the Service's stations, of which there were more than today's mariners or beachcombers can imagine -- 41 on the New Jersey coast, 31 on Lake Michigan, 13 on Cape Cod alone. In the last half of the nineteenth century, when coasting vessels numbered in the tens of thousands, the stations and their beach patrols were a necessity, and the surfmen managed dramatic rescues, many of which are recounted here.
United States Coast Guard Heroes
Author: C. Douglas Sterner
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2015-12-26
Total Pages: 594
ISBN-13: 9781522843771
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnited States Coast Guard Heroes is a comprehensive compilations of awards of the Medal of Honor, Navy Cross, Distinguished Service Medals, Legions of Merit, Distinguished Flying Crosses, Coast Guard Medals, and Navy and Marine Corps Medals to members of the U.S. Coast Guard. This volume includes basic Coast Guard history, history behind the various awards, and appendixes including analysis of awards by rank, unit, and a chronological listing of valor awards. Additional appendixes include U.S. Military leadership, and a comprehensive of nearly all U.S. Coast Guard Flag Officers.
Today's Army Heroes
Author: Joyce L. Markovics
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 37
ISBN-13: 1617724459
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes acts of bravery and heroism performed by Army personnel in the current wars of the U.S.
Operations of the Coast Guard in Time of War
Author: United States. Coast Guard
Publisher:
Published: 1941
Total Pages: 15
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Greatest Coast Guard Rescue Stories Ever Told
Author: Tom McCarthy
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2017-08-01
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1493027034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExciting 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.
Wonderful Flying Machines
Author: Barrett Thomas Beard
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book clearly demonstrates the problems encountered by the personalities involved and their strengths in developing the helicopter for Coast Guard use. It shows how Erickson and his friend and mentor, Coast Guard captain William Kossler, undaunted by their lack of support, fought with single-minded intensity to establish the helicopter as a vital rescue tool in the service. Kossler died while the project was still in its infancy.
