[PDF] World War Ii Coast Gaurd Cutters eBook

Author : T. Garth Connelly
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 32,95 MB
Release : 2016-04-03
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 9781530876709

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An overall history of the USCG's 83-foot patrol cutters during World War II. Period photos, some colored are included, as are builder drawings.

Author : Thomas P. Ostrom
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 10,78 MB
Release : 2009-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 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.

Author : John M. Waters
Publisher : Naval Inst Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Naval convoys
ISBN : 9781557509123

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A chilling story of the Allies' narrow escape from defeat at the hands of Nazi submarines in the North Atlantic.

Author : Alejandro de Quesada
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 19,24 MB
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1780962150

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Alex de Quesada reveals the full history of the US Coast Guard throughout World War II in this Elite title. In particular, the book draws attention to the little-known story of how the US Coast Guard ran a number of the landing craft throughout D-Day in 1944 as well as providing crucial anti-U-boat patrols throughout the war years. A number of Coast Guard servicemen were lost in these two campaigns, and their undeniable contribution to the US war effort deserves greater recognition. The Coast Guard also provided aviators and gunners to the Merchant Marine and manned Port Security Services. These roles are all fully explained and illustrated with rare photographs and specially commissioned artwork.

Author : Malcolm F. Willoughby
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 22,97 MB
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 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.

Author : Michael G. Walling
Publisher : Cutter Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 11,69 MB
Release : 2009-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0578012901

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Through eyewitness accounts based on hundreds of interviews with crew members; personal diaries, notes, and letters; and each cutter's logbooks and patrol reports Walling plunges you into the thick of the battle, re-creating some of the most desperate encounters, heroic rescues, and harrowing missions of the Second World War. Told largely in the voices of the men who lived it, this unforgettable tale is peppered with humorous and ironic anecdotes about life aboard ship during wartime. You'll meet the liberty-craving crew members who painted their entire ship in less than an hour; the ship's mascot who became canine-non-grata in Greenland; and the crew whose vessel was mistaken for the German battleship Bismarck and attacked by the Royal Navy. Complete with dramatic photographs of the Coast Guard in action, Bloodstained Sea brings this epic drama to vibrant and pulsing life.

Author : Lynn Stone
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 37,38 MB
Release : 2005-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1606941046

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Explores The Coast Guard Vessels Used In A Variety Of Different Missions And Activities.