The United States Coast Guard in World War II: A History of Domestic and Overseas ActionsAt 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. |
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1 Prelude to Pearl Harbor | 9 |
2 The Day of Infamy | 13 |
3 US Coast Guard Organization | 24 |
4 Port Security Navigation and Aviation | 29 |
5 Coast Guard Crews and Navy Ships | 38 |
12 The Mediterranean | 108 |
13 DDay at Normandy | 117 |
14 The Aleutians and the Bering Sea | 134 |
15 The Pacific Campaign | 145 |
16 Pacific Reminiscences | 155 |
17 Return to the Philippines and Victory | 171 |
Epilogue | 181 |
World War II Era Coast Guard Chronology | 195 |
6 Defense from the Great Lakes to the Oceans | 51 |
7 Admiral Russell R Waesche | 61 |
8 Coast Guard Air and Sea Warfare | 66 |
9 The Greenland Patrol | 76 |
10 The Atlantic War | 86 |
11 Guarding the Convoys | 95 |
Documents | 201 |
Chapter Notes | 217 |
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