Coast Guard Naval Operations

Photos illustrating Coast Guard personnel engaging in naval duties, including rescue efforts and patrols during WWII, with a focus on crafts and maritime activities.

USS Paulding (DD-22), a U.S. destroyer, is pictured on patrol duty at sea. This photograph, captured by REGD1-14-20, depicts the ship numbered 6872. The image bears the description "Taken Issued Symbol E.U U.S. Destroyer Paulding on Patrol Duty" and is noted as 06874.
USS Paulding (DD-22), a U.S. destroyer, is pictured on patrol duty at sea. This photograph, captured by REGD1-14-20, depicts the ship numbered 6872. The image bears the description "Taken Issued Symbol E.U U.S. Destroyer Paulding on Patrol Duty" and is noted as 06874.
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U.S.S. VESTAL in the Navy, April 1918. The ship, identified by serial number 7493, is seen in this photo during its duty in the military activities of World War One. This photograph was taken by A.U. Pastora, enlisted in the Navy and numbered as 111-SC-8493.
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Plane in the AA Sights. A future Coast Guard Officer, with all the earnestness that comes with knowing that some day lives and victory may depend on his knowledge of antiaircraft guns, grips the handlebars and sights the AA gun on a plane overhead. Instruction in use of AA guns is only one of the things that future Coast Guard ensigns are taught at the Coast Guard Academy, New London, Connecticut. Coast Guardsmen participating in global warfare need technical knowledge of many kinds.
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Photo collection First World War. Official Naval Photographs. A Naval Sailing Race. 1914-1918}
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Hollandia -- On The Road To Tokyo. This image depicts Coast Guard-manned LSTs loaded with men and invasion equipment. Two of the big carriers ram their noses into the sand at Tanah Merah Bay.
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Coast Guardsmen Entertain Invasion Bound Troops. U.S. Coast Guardsmen gave countless "jam" sessions for soldiers aboard a Coast Guard manned combat transport bound for the invasion of Makin. The musicians, one of whom is silhouetted at the right, were crew members. The Coast Guard transport was a member of the Navy task force participating in the invasion.
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U.S. naval fleet launches a new 10,000 torpedo from the U.S.S. O'Brien. This photograph was taken by Enrique Muller Jr., a war photographer, during World War I. The original copy of this image is archived in Drawer No. 3, Corridor Cabinet No. 5. The photograph is marked as "For official use only."
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Description: Forwarded with Govs No. 256. of 5th May 1915. Received 15.June. Japanese Warships. Location: Borneo Date: 05 June 1925 asia, malaysia, borneo, sabah, asiathroughalens
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Photograph of King George V (1865- 1936) disembarking from a submarine. Dated 1935
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Medevac of Injured Fisherman from Fishing Vessel ELUSIVE. This image depicts the medevac of injured fisherman from fishing vessel ELUSIVE by a Coast Guard helicopter piloted by Lieutenant Commander Roger Love.
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USCGC Casco on Equatorial Atlantic Scientific Mission. Seen here is the 311-ft. U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Casco during her tropical Atlantic Oceanographic cruise of six week with a boat crew at left undergoes drill.
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Action between the U.S. vessels Pawnee and Freeborn and the rebel batteries at Acquia sic Creek. Morgan collection of Civil War drawings. Pawnee (Screw sloop), 1860-1870, Freeborn (Gunboat), 1860-1870, Artillery (Weaponry), 1860-1870, Ships, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Naval operations, United States, Virginia, Aquia Creek
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Greeting the Dawn. This image depicts artwork of Coast Guardsmen on watch as the sun rises, drawn by Coast Guard Combat Artist John S. Gretzer.
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Rescue by Soviet Fishermen. This image depicts a Coast Guard helicopter recovering Captain Hugh La Vallee after he was rescued by the Soviet fishing vessel JOHANNES WARE.
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Storming a Beach. This image depicts Coast Guardsmen storming a beach from a whaleboat during training on the West Coast of the United States.
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Virginia - Yorktown, Aerial Photograph.
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Marine Dabblers. Dated: published 1811. Medium: etching and mezzotint. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Joseph Mallord William Turner and William Say.
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On board the 'Brooklyn' after the Battle of Santiago, showing damaged smokestack , Smokestacks, Warships, Sailors, Military personnel, War damage, Spanish-American War, 1898
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The Front Behind the Front. This image depicts Coast Guard Vice Admiral Russell R. Waesche and Captain Norman B. Hall inspecting Washington, D.C.'s waterfront safety measures. In the background Coast Guard fireboats bour out hundreds of gallons of water.
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Cadets in Rigging. Cadets at the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. Connecticut, learn the elements of old fashioned marlin spike seamanship through actual practice as well as lectures. Part of their training period is spent aboard the Coast Guard Academy's training schooners. Following graduation they are ready for immediate duty on Coast Guard ships or at shore stations.
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Home Was Never Like This. Going toward Morotai, now captured bastion in in the Halmaheras, American troops sprawl on their cots under crude tents topside of a Coast Guard-manned LST. In these cramped, far-from-comfortable conditions, these fighting men store up energy and rest those "dogs" for the battle ahead. Morotai fell swiftly in General MacArthur's irresistible sweep westward toward the Philippines, now only 300 miles away.
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Marine Dabblers, plate 29 from Liber Studiorum Published 1811 England. Etching and engraving in brown on ivory laid paper . Joseph Mallord William Turner
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The picture shows two shipwrecks from two lowered warships after Zee brewery seeds, English attack against Zeebrugge.The image is taken from one of the vessels visible in the foreground.Original text: English failed fleet attacks against Zeebrugge: The two of the German coastal artillery destroyed the latch cruisers.The image is taken from one of the vessels visible in the foreground.
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Photo collection First World War. The uizets of fish in an English channel. 1914-1918}. Britain
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"U.S. soldiers coaling the U.S. Transport Leviathan at night in the harbor of Brest, France. Photograph taken on November 24, 1918. Image captured by Sgt. Warolin, SC. Drawing made by Capt. W. J. Aylward, E.R.C. S.C. Photo Laboratory, Vincennes, Seine, France. Released by A.E.F. Censor on December 23, 1918."
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Submarine Explosions black-and-white prints
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Fueling Operations , Fuel. Photographs of the First Naval District
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Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. fish heavy brought inboard line gaffel. September 1954. Guinea, Seroon
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Our visit to Wellington to see the H.M.S. 'New Zealand'. April 18, 1913: Reconnoitring on the railway wharf. From the album: Family photographs 1913 photographic prints, gelatin silver prints
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Japanese Oil Dump "Goes Up" On Tinian Island. American destroyers, firing from off shore, score a direct hit on a Japanese oil dump on Tinian Island, causing a black column of smoke to pile into the sky. In foreground, Coast Guard-manned landing craft of the first wave move against the beach close to the climax of the fleet bombardment of enemy shore positions.
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Iceberg Vesuvius. Flames, steam, smoke and spiraling ice bits erupt in volcanic display of fireworks from this iceberg as the hot molten iron released from burning termite contacts the ice. A Coast Guard boarding group, conducting the first of the Ice Patrol's thermite demolition tests, planted six incendiary charges each containing 28 lbs. of thermite on this 75-ft. wide, 150-ft. long tabular iceberg in Cape Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland. They ignited the thermite from a rubber life raft and lifeboat 300 yards from the berg using an electrical detonator connected with a demolition cable leading to the charges on the berg. Partly visible in the foreground is the Ice Patrol oceanographic vessel USCG Evergreen which is standing guard for emergencies and evaluating the tests.
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Coast Guard Cutters Guard The Sea Paths. This image depicts Coast Guard cutters keeping vigilant guard over the merchantmen who are transferring the vast invasion arsenal eastward to Allied assault bases.
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Coast Guard Academy Cadets Return from Practice Cruise. Laying aloft, U.S. Coast Guard Academy Cadets on a summer practice cruise scramble up the ropes to the main shrouds of the training bark EAGLE. Handling the 22,000 square feet of sail and more than 20 miles of rigging on the 295-ft. bark presents a great challenge to the young Cadets in the art of seamanship. The Cadets also received training in modern seamanship aboard the Cutter CAMPBELL which accompanied the bark. Here they were on the return trip to the Academy at New London, Connecticut, from a cruise to the South Atlantic.
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DEPARTURE OF THE GREAT EASTERN FROM THE MERSEY WITH THE CANADIAN CONTINGENT
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""Come Along Side!"". A U.S. Coast Guardsman signals a tank lighter to come alongside the Combat Transport as it unloads men and material at Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville, for the invasion. The color of the flag used denotes the type of boat desired from the "Standby Area" astern of the transport. The Coast Guardsman is Leonard P. O'Neill, Yeoman, third class, of Great Falls, Montana.
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Anefo photo collection. Fleet. H.M. Heemskerk. September 1, 1945
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Games aboard the ocean liner Conte Verde.
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Sailors, probably American, and some civilians posed on a cruiser berthed in New York() Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905, Diplomacy, American, New York (State), New York.
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Soldiers on board the ship "Mongolia" in harbor of St. Nazaire, France, as they prepare to depart and head home. The soldiers are seen packing the deck, taking a last look at the shores of France before the ship sails. Date of the photo is noted as January 20, 1919.
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The Assouan Dam. From the album: Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF, 1914-1915, Egypt, by Major John Rose.
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Photograph of American Flag Waving Over View of a Section of Beach Piled With Millions of Tons of Supplies. The Stars and Stripes Come Back to the Philippines. The American flag returns unfurled over the American liberation forces that are shown here solidifying the epochal beachhead on Leyte Island in the Philippines. This photo, made by a Coast Guard Combat Photographer, early in the invasion, shows the stars and stripes and a section of the beach piled with millions of tons of supplies. The American flag had flown over the Philippines since 1898 until the Japs captured the islands three years ago.
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American Sea Power Crashes Into the Ryukyus. In the shadow of a rocky hump similar to volcanic Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, American forces carve out a beachhead on the island of Geruma Shima on the southerly fringe of the Ryukyus. Coast Guard-manned and Navy LSTs and Army amtracs pile ashore carrying hardened invasion veterans of the 77th division. The Geruma Shima operation preceded by a few days the assault upon Okinawa, only 325 miles from the main Japanese island of Kyushu. This picture is an excerpt from a U.S. Coast Guard movie film flown back to this country from the Ryukyus.
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Maritime Service Enrollees Learning the Use of a Compass. Maritime Service enrollees learning the use of a compass. All men in the decks force must be able to take their turn at the helm.
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King George VI of England with Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margaret and Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II), aboard HMS Vanguard en-route to South Africa, 1947
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Near the shore. From the album: Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF, 1915, Çanakkale Bogazi, by Major John Rose.
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Description: Return journey: His Excellency the Governor, Mr. R.H. Sheldrake, Sir Bernard Reilly. Location: Aden, Yemen Date: 03 February 1953 Description: His Excellency and Mr. R.H. Sheldrake Location: Aden, Yemen Date: 03 February 1953
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The long arm of the Royal Navy: a German U-boat meets its end in the Atlantic, British destroyers having picked up its trail 120 miles away. An SOS from a British merchantman which the U-boat had attacked gave the destroyers a clue to the submarine's whereabouts. Date: 1939
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Coast Guardsman Carries American Mail in Italian Bag. This U.S. Coast Guardsman has a useful souvenir of the fighting in the Naples area --- an Italian mail bag. The Coast Guardsman serves as a mailman aboard a combat transport that participated in the Italian invasion, and uses the Italian bag in his duties. He is Vincent J. McCabe, Boatswain's Mate Second Class, whose home is at 172-40 Ninetieth Avenue, Jamaica, Long Island, New York.
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Information office and radio broadcaster Dutch New Guinea. Native spin ruels in the Demta bay. September 1953. New Guinea
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James E. Rollston, specialist third class, gets the drop on Chief specialist Benny Kessler who is teaching Judo and rough and tumble tactics to recruits. Just to show how it's done in the Coast Guard, James E. Rollston, specialist third class, of Kirkwood, Mo., gets the drop on Chief specialist Benny Kessler who is teaching Judo and rough and tumble tactics to recruits at the District Coast Guard Training Station, Grafton, Illinois.
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NAVAL SUPPORT ACTIVITY SOUDA BAY, Greece (July 18, 2022) File photo from Mar. 13, 2008 captioned, Sailors conduct mooring operations as the guided missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea (CG 58) arrives for a routine port visit. Naval Support Activity Souda Bay is an operational ashore base that enables U.S., Allied, and Partner nation forces to be where they are needed when they are needed to preserve security and stability in the European, African, and Central Command areas of responsibility.
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Pearl oyster fishing in Ago Bay, Japan. 1940-1960
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Water shortage 1953. A 1st lieutenant of the royal land power with some journalists in a Dukw (amphibiy vehicle) of the United States Army in the area affected by the disaster.
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Sheeran and McFarlane. From: World War I photograph album black-and-white prints, documentary photographs
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Coast Guard Stamp. The United States postage stamp honoring the achievements of the United States Coast Guard in World War II, will be issued on November 10, 1945. The stamp will be placed on sale first at the Sub-Treasury Building, New York City, where Alexander Hamilton made his speech recommending the establishment of the Coast Guard, or Revenue Marine, as it was then known. Note: This stamp was designed by 26-year-old Coast Guard combat artist Ken Riley, of Parsons, Kansas.
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Shiver My Timbers! There's a Spar Aboard. Up there in the frozen north, Spar, the perky she-dog mascot, is the favorite of the ship's company serving on the rugged duty of the Greenland patrol. Here, Spar mounts a capstan aboard the Coast Guard combat cutter and looks her snappy best as a Coast Guard combat photographer's shutter clicks.
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Ensuring Freedom of the Seas Arabic. 1942 - 1945. Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. Bureau of Special Services. 3/9/1943-9/15/1945. World War II Foreign Posters