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* The Coast Guard
by Barret T. Beard
Written by an outstanding team of historians and officers, the
definitive story of the U.S. Coast Guard is recorded for the first time
in this magnificently illustrated, large-format book published with the
Foundation for Coast Guard History. Stories of the "Coastie" experience as well as essays on history, lighthouses, search and rescue, aviation, the drug war, and the war on terrorism all share one common focus: the highly trained and motivated people who make it all work.
* Wonderful Flying Machines
Barret T. Beard
The story of the helicopter and its creator, Igor Sikorsky, and chief promoter, a young
Coast Guard lieutenant named Frank Erickson. Dubbed "Igor's Nightmare" in the early days of
its development, the helicopter brought derision and ridicule on its supporters. Using
Erickson's unpublished memoirs, archival records, and interviews, Beard shows how Erickson
and his friend and mentor, Coast Guard captain William Kossler, fought with single-minded
intensity to establish the helicopter as a vital rescue tool
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The United States Coast Guard: 1790 to the Present
by Thomas P. Ostrom Paperback
The United States Coast Guard traces its origins to 1790, but the official USCG name was
designated in 1915. The Coast Guard is the product of the assimilation of several government
agencies over a long period of time.
When America was a British colony, the first lighthouse was built in Boston Harbor on Little
Brewster Island in 1716. The lighthouse was an aid to navigation to guide ships along the
rocky Atlantic coast. In August of 1789, the first Congress federalized the lighthouse that
had been built by the colonists, and funded the construction and maintenance of buoys and
lighthouses. These early lighthouses were sturdy stone structures with thick walls whose
lights under the care of keepers guided mariners into dangerous ports. Oil wick lamp lights
were amplified by large optical lenses, reflectors and prisms.
Where lighthouses could not be placed, government lightships were stationed at strategic
locations in coastal waters. The first lightship was located in Chesapeake Bay in 1820 under
the supervision of the Lighthouse Service. Storms sometimes blew lightships off location and
other ships sometimes sunk them. On May 16, 1934, ?the Olympic, sister ship of the ill fated
Titanic, struck and sank the Nantucket Shoals Lightship (No. 117) in fog and drove the
vessel to the bottom with the loss of seven (of eleven) crewmen.? Hundreds of these floating
lighthouses guided mariners until the 1980?s when the vessels were superseded by
sophisticated electronic buoys
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Always Ready: Today's U.S. Coast Guard (Power Series)
by Kit Bonner, Carolyn Bonner (Paperback
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Bloodstained Sea : The U.S. Coast Guard in the Battle of the Atlantic, 1941-1944
by Michael G. Walling Hardcover
Historic battles, daring rescues, and covert missions-the untold story of the U.S. Coast
Guard in World War II
Americans called it "Torpedo Junction," Germans "Devil's Gorge," but historians know it as
the Battle of the Atlantic-the four-year Allied struggle to move desperately needed supplies
from America to Europe through devastating assaults by German U-boats, ships, and aircraft.
Now for the first time, Bloodstained Sea describes in vivid detail the heroic actions of the
Coast Guard ships that defended Allied convoys en route through the North Atlantic to
England and Russia.
Eyewitness accounts assembled from hundreds of interviews propel this breathtaking,
meticulously researched plunge into the thick of a battle fought mostly in the frozen seas
east of Greenland. There, courageous but overmatched Coast Guard escorts braved the torpedo
attacks of U-boat wolf packs to rescue thousands of men while thousands of others perished.
Told in the voices of the men who lived it, this epic drama reveals the indomitable fighting
spirit of the World War II Coast Guard.
* Lifeboat Sailors: The U.S. Coast Guard's Small Boat Stations
by Dennis L. Noble (Paperback
This the first book on the distinguished past, hazardous present, and uncertain future of an
organization whose roots extend back nearly 200 years. Each year, the Coast Guard's powerful
motorized lifeboats and other small water craft respond to over 37,000 calls for assistance
and help in saving more than 4,000 people in imminent danger. Despite the fact that the
small boat stations are the very symbol of rescue upon the water, the public knows little
about what takes place in them and about the professionals who put their own lives at risk
in this way every day.
A retired member of the Coast Guard, Dennis Noble traveled from unit to unit capturing the
stories of their brave crews, riding the waves with the lifeboat sailors who accepted him as
one of their own. Movingly he tells of witnessing the tragic deaths of three Coast Guardsmen
on a rescue mission - deaths he believes did not have to occur. Lifeboat Sailors bears
witness to the courage of a unique breed of seaman and sounds an alarm for the rescue of a
cherished American institution.
* Character in Action: The U.S. Coast Guard on Leadership
by Donald T. Phillips, James M. Loy Hardcover
How does the U.S. Coast Guard create, instill, and maintain leadership throughout a 40,000
member force spread across the United States? A former Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard
and a best-selling author combine their knowledge of the subject to offer a formula for
success. Donald T. Phillips, who has written eight books on leadership, asserts that the
Coast Guard is a superlative example of an organization with effective leadership, loaded
with leaders at all levels. From a guardsman scraping barnacles off buoys in the Gulf of
Mexico to the captain of a cutter in the Gulf of Alaska to the Commandant in Washington,
they know exactly what leadership is, how it works, and why it is important. This case study
in leadership uses the Coast Guard as an example for other organizations who want to imbue
leadership to every single one of its members. An effective leadership beacon, the book is
replete with tangible examples, vivid anecdotes, and explicit guidelines on how to instill
leadership throughout an entire organization. Stories abound on Coast Guard efficiency,
innovation, and heroism and many are used to illustrate the service's effectiveness and to
engage the reader. From the military and government communities to the business world, a
variety of organizations can benefit from this outstanding leadership guide. 5 x 8 inches.
* Guardians of the Sea: History of the United States Coast Guard, 1915 to the Present
by Robert Erwin Johnson (Hardcover
I wish I had found this book when I made my decision to join the Coast Guard. It answers a
wide range of questions on everything from why Coast Guard vessels are called "cutters" to
why members of the service wear the present-day blue uniform. From the first chapter,
concerning the formation of the Coast Guard through the merger of the Revenue Cutter Service
and the Life Saving Service, to the final chapter describing the rescue of 319 passengers
from the burning liner Prinsendam in 1979, this book holds the reader's attention
throughout. It also deals with the mistakes as well, such as the Simas Kudirka incident, in
which a Lithuaninan seaman tryig to defect was allowed to be taken back to his ship, and the
collisions which sank the cutters Cuyahoga and Blackthorn. Anyone considering joining the
service, or anyone who just wants to know more about our smallest branch of the armed
forces, should read this book. It has helped me to understand more about the work I do in
the Coast Guard than any other source of information.
* New Jersey Coast Guard Stations and Rumrunners (Images of America)
by Van R. Field , John J. Galluzzo (Paperback
With its many inlets, points, and coves, the coast of New Jersey stood out as a haven for
rumrunners brazenly thumbing their nose at the federal government during Prohibition. New
Jersey was also recognized as the birthplace of the federal government's shore-based units
of the United States Coast Guard, the organization charged at that time with stopping the
flow of "demon run" into America. With its vivid images, New Jersey Coast Guard Stations and
Rumrunners revives the days when New Jersey's "coasties" stood toe-to-toe with the
rumrunners of the 1920s and 1930s.
* Rescued By The United States Coast Guard: Great Acts Of Heroism Since 1878
by Dennis L. Noble (Hardcover
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* Coast Guard Action in Vietnam: Stories of Those Who Served
by Paul C. Scotti (Paperback
A well-crafted and engaging history of the Coast Guard's unusual and dangerous involvement
in Vietnam. From the haunting account of the Air Force's accidental and fatal attack on the
Coast Guard patrol boat Point Welcome, to the gripping description of sea battles with North
Vietnamese gunrunners, Scotti leads his readers on an exciting sortie into the little-known
world of the Coast Guard in Vietnam. Includes photos and a well-researched historical
overview of perhaps the least-understood branch of the military.
* The Coast Guard at War: Vietnam, 1965-1975
by Alex Larzelere (Hardcover
The awesome Coast Guard fired 77,000 rounds of naval gunfire support to help Army and Marine
troops. The small patrol boats sent up the dangerous rivers in the south were sitting ducks.
You'll find out why all were not destroyed by enemy fire. The ammunition depots in the
harbors were disasters waiting to happen until the Coast Guard got there and put things in
order. It is incredible to learn the other military services top battle commanders were so
ignorant about Coast Guard assets and expertise. But, once they learned, they couldn't get
enough of the Coast Guard. Book could use some more detailed maps and a pronunciation guide
to Viet words.
* The Barque of Saviors: Eagle's Passage from the Nazi Navy to the U.S. Coast Guard
by Russell Drumm
In 1936 in Hamburg, a splendid three-masted sailing ship was christened Horst Wessel in the
presence of Adolf Hitler and thousands of cheering Nazis. It became a training vessel for
naval officers during World War II. After Germany"s defeat, the U.S. Coast Guard found its
young crew terrified and half starved. The Coast Guardsmen brought the Germans, so recently
their mortal enemies, back to life; the Germans, in return, taught them the ways of the
beautiful square-rigged ship, rechristened Eagle. In time, Eagle would become the Coast
Guard"s elite school ship - the barque of saviors.
Uncannily linking Eagle"s malign past and its American present is a Coast Guardsman named
Karl Dillmann, who believes that the spirit of a young German sailor drowned in a U-boat
explosion inhabits his soul. The voices of Dillmann and other crew members are heard
throughout the book, as are, incredibly, the voices of young sailors on the Horst Wessel.
Drumm has obtained never-before-published logbooks from the war years, affording fascinating
new insights into both the ship"s everyday life and its moments of high drama.
A supremely gifted journalist and a vivid, lyrical writer, Russell Drumm knows Eagle
intimately. His love of the ship, and of the sea itself, enriches every page. The courage
and sacrifice of the "greatest generation" are alive and well today in the dedicated members
of the U.S. Coast Guard
* Commodore Ellsworth P. Bertholf: First Commandant of the Coast Guard (Library of Naval
Biography)
by C. Douglas Kroll
* The Smugglers of Spirits; Prohibition and the Coast Guard Patrol.
by Harold. Waters
* They That Go Down to the Sea: A Bicentennial Pictorial History of the United States Coast Guard
by Paul Powers
* The Coast Guard in World War I: An Untold Story
by Alex R. Larzelere (Hardcover
Foreword by Adm. James M. Loy, USCG Commandant, 1998-2002 The U.S. Coast Guard suffered the highest percentage of losses of any American armed force in World War I, yet until now the extent of the Coast Guard's involvement in that war remains little known to the public. The author, an experienced Coast Guardsmen himself, makes extensive use of such primary sources as personal journals and letters, cutter logs, reports of commanding officers, personnel records, and interviews to compile this historic, first-time-ever account. To bring the history to life Alex Larzelere draws on his extensive seagoing background and fills the book with action narratives that document the heroism of men like Lt. Fletcher Brown, Warrant Officer Midgett, and their crews, who went to the rescue of ships torpedoed by German U-boats.
The Coast Guard was transferred to the Navy when war was declared in 1917. A small service of less than 5,000, it was made up of highly experienced cuttermen, sorely needed for the U.S. Navy's rapidly expanding fleet. This book describes the activities of the guardsmen and their units in the war zone and at home, from the time they were mobilized and transferred until the service was returned to the treasury department in August 1919. As explained by Larzelere, their many operations give readers a full appreciation of their contributions to the war effort. 240 pages. 22 photographs. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Hardcover. 6 x 9 inches.