Coast Guard Operations in Wartime

Historical images of U.S. Coast Guard vessels during WWII, showcasing their roles in combat, rescue, and maritime surveillance.

Helping Hand. Wounded during the first fighting at Eniwetok Atoll, a Marine is helped aboard a Coast Guard manned troop transport for first aid treatment. Pharmacist Mate Clarence Conklin, of Louisville, Ky., aids the Marine up the gangway, as a Coast Guard landing boat crew stands by for new orders.

Coast Guard Combat Photographers Enter Manila Bay. As the Coast Guard-manned LST on which they are serving enters the breakwater pass into Manila Bay, two Coast Guard Combat Photographers capture the event on motion picture film. Coast Guard warrant photographer John Folk, of 536 Highland Avenue, N.E., Atlanta, Ga., is at the camera, while Gerald C. Anker, of 437 N. Sycamore, Los Angeles, Calif., takes notes on the footage.

Mother and Baby Rescued from Battle. This image depicts artwork of a young mother and her child, who Coast Guard personnel rescued from the fighting on Saipan and brought aboard, painted by Coast Guard Combat Artist Omar G. Dawson.

Alligators Crawl Toward the Foe on Leyte. Two huge U.S. Army Alligators, their gunners ready to "let 'em have it," growl forward toward the Japs from a beach, protected by the open jaws of the Coast Guard-manned and Navy LSTs, after early waves had secured the beachheads on Leyte Island in the Philippines. These crawling forts figured powerfully in crashing through the Jap defenses and driving the enemy back into the interior.

Returning From Battle. For him the battle is over. An American invasion casualty is brought back to the beach at Salerno for transfer to a Coast Guard manned transport. In the background can be seen supplies just brought ashore by Coast Guardsmen.

Waiting for H-Hour. This image depicts British soldiers aboard a Coast Guard-manned transport waiting to board landing barges.

The body of nurse Edith Cavell is returned to Britain in 1919, after the first world War and a state funeral was held at Westminster Abbey. On 19 May 1919, her body was reburied at the east side of Norwich Cathedral. Edith Louisa Cavell (1865 12 October 1915) was a British nurse. She is celebrated for saving the lives of soldiers from both sides without distinction and in helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium during World War I, for which she was arrested. She was subsequently court-martialled, found guilty of treason and sentenced to death. Despite international pressure for mercy, she was shot by a German firing squad. Her execution received worldwide condemnation and extensive press coverage.

Fighters Delivered by the Coast Guard. Down the gangway from a Coast Guard-manned assault transport, hundreds of American fighters board an LST off the shore of a Southwest Pacific Island, preparatory to adding another to the spreading number of strategic American bases which are crowding the Japs back toward their homeland.

The official tests of the Peral submarine in San Fernando 1890, Cadiz, Andalusia. Spain. Old XIX century engraved illustration from La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1890

Coast Guard Gives Navy Seaplane A Lift. This image depicts a Navy seaplane being hoisted aboard a Coast Guard-manned assault transport.

Description: Panoramic view of Naval Anchorage, Island showing Iron Pier (No.19, annexe to Article 2) on right, with Naval Dockyard, Clark's pier extreme left, and landing jetty opposite R.N. Canteen (No.3 in same annexe), centre. Location: Wei Hai Wei, China Date: 1923 china, asia, asiathroughalens

Some Return in Litters. A wounded American fighting man comes out of the carnage of Saipan. Four comrades carry a casualty in a litter along the beach to a landing barge which will carry him out to a Coast Guard-manned LST which serves as a hospital ship off the embattled island in the Marianas.

Military exercise..

USS Monocacy, anonymous, The Universal Photo Art Company, 1902 stereograph Tianjinpublisher: Philadelphiapublisher: Philadelphia cardboard. baryta paper gelatin silver print ships (in general) Tianjin

Allied troops wait for a ship during the Dunkirk evacuation, 1940. Artist: Unknown

Elsevier photo collection. Zandvoort, storm causes damage camping houses beach. campingierin "Helios", approx. 15 tent houses destroyed. Police people public helped clean up. 18, 1955. Noord-Holland, Zandvoort

Capture of Jemimah Boone. Original caption: Capture of Jemimah Boone - "The Kentucky Pioneers" - Harpers New Monthly Magazine. June-Nov. 1887.

How'd You Like to Look Out the Window. How'd you like to look out the window some morning and see this That in effect was the experience of Coast Guardsmen aboard a cutter, on anti-submarine patrol in north Atlantic waters, which came up on the icebergs during the night. Coast Guard ships are found in many parts of the world as they effectively participate in this global war.

First Wave Goes In At Bougainville. The initial wave of U.S. Marines heads for the beach at Empress Augusta Bay, on the west central coast of Bougainville in the northern Solomons. The invasion craft, carrying Marines and supplies, were manned by Coast Guardsmen. A U.S. Navy Task Force supporting the landing.

Photograph of Cuban Patrol Boat Off Anguilla Island. Communist Cuban Naval PT boat off Anguilla Island.

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.

Saipan Silhouette. Silhouetted against a background showing a section of the naval force that attacked Saipan Island, this surface lookout scans the sea for signs of Japanese activity as his Coast Guard-manned attack transport is engaged in landing troops and supplies on the beach. Above him is an anti-aircraft battery.

Channel Rendezvous Under Balloon Umbrella. Protected from strafing Nazi planes by barrage balloons, a Coast Guard tank landing ship, (left) forward passes as load of mechanized fighting vehicles to the flat top of a "Rhino" in the English Channel during the height of the invasion of the French Coast. The "Rhinos" slogged through the surf to unload their cargos on the beach.

U.S. Navy practice ships, Naval Academy. Picturesque views of the wide, wide world: gems of beauty and art: mountain, valley and stream. 1880. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Maryland, Annapolis (Md.)

Tanks Rumble Ashore on Luzon. Tanks Rumble Ashore on Luzon. A direct hit on a landing craft in rear fails to halt the flow of American armor onto the beaches of Lingayen Gulf as the invasion of Luzon get under way. A Coast Guard combat photographer took this striking shot as tanks roared ashore to head for the broad highways to Manila.

Officers on deck of monitor 19th Century Mathew Brady, Quartermaster, and Other Civil War Photographs

March 2, 1907. View of the bow and armored tower of the 'Jena'.

The disaster of the British fleet off the coast of Balaclava on November 14th, 1854 by Aivazovsky, Ivan Konstantinovich (1817-1900) / State Art Museum of Republic Tatarstan, Kazan / Romanticism / 1854 / Russia / Pencil, watercolour and white colour on p

Operation to recover the Roman emperor Caligula's ships from the bed of Lake Nemi, Lazio, Italy, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LV, No 15, April 8, 1928.

Pacific - Rescue Plane (Consolidated Oa-10 "Rescue Cat") Is Taxiing Toward Raft, With Nip-Held Island Seen In Background. Flight Surgeon And Enlisted Medical Personnel Are Ready To Give First-Aid.

Runaground III, a mock amphibious invasion of England, Portsmouth, Hampshire, 1952. Artist: Unknown

Naval Academy students greet the American cadets of the training ships Arkansas and Wyoming entering the port of Naples, Italy, photo by Bruni, from L'illustrazione Italiana, year LXI, n 29, July 22, 1934.

"Enemy" overhead. This image depicts a Coast Guard-manned landing craft training off the East Coast of the United States.

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Three Sailors Watch Undamaged Ship Leaving Pearl Harbor

The giant cunard liner, 'Lusitania', in the First World War, was attacked by a German U-boat on 7 May 1915 and sank in 18 minutes killing 1198 people. This picture here, was drawn by Fortunio Matania with the assistance of eye-witnesses, showing rescuers pulling passengers from the cold sea onto rowing boats Date: 7 May 1915

Coast Guard Sight Men Afloat. Coast Guard Sight Men Afloat. This picture shows sixteen men being rescued by the Coast Guard after their ship was torpedoed.

Arctic Resupply Mission. A helicopter from the Coast Guard icebreaker WESTWIND lights on an iceberg in Baffin Bay between the northern region of Canada and Greenland. Two such helicopters operate from a flight deck on the WESTWIND's quarter-deck. Helicopters are used in scouting for ice leads and for transporting personnel and materials ashore over ice blocked areas inaccessible by feet or by boat. Talking on board the WESTWIND, as they carefully by-pass the moving mass of ice, is the Commanding Officer Captain Hendry F. Stolfi, USCG, and the Executive Officer, Commander Joseph Moretta, USCG. The icebreaker WESTWIND here is accompanying is a Navy Task Force Group on a joint U.S. - Canadian Resupply mission to far northern weather stations Resolute, Eureka, and Alert in the Arctic.

A group of officers on deck of submarine Hr.Ms. O 13 (1931-1940) Lide the loft tray. From left to right Lieutenant-Ter-Zee MSD Suermondt, Lieutenant-Ter-Zee MSD F.A. Tours, the commander Lieutenant-Ter-Zee J.F. Van Dulm, the O.O. Lieutenant-Ter-Zee Bruyn and an unknown.

Photograph of Cesar Romero Aboard Coast Guard-manned Transport.

Massachusetts - Pollock Rip Beacon. Pollock Rip Beacon, Massachusetts. November 18, 1897 (3 PM), position #8.

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. platform built praugs. boulders transported construction pier seral. December 1953. Guinea

Departure of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force, circa 1915, by John Dickie.

1st trip of the R. Fulton May 03/09.. Wallace C. Marley (American, active Newark, New Jersey 1900s)

The Coast Guard Goes into the Philippines. Coast Guardsmen were at the controls of many of the landing barges that swarmed in upon the beaches of Leyte Island to deliver General MacArthur's liberation forces to the shores of the Philippines. Here, close in the wake of the first waves, landing craft unload supplies - millions of tons to support the greatest amphibious assault of the Pacific war.

Visit to the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess on board the Prince Adalbert in the port of Kiel on the occasion of the embarkation of Prince Heinrich, Visit to the Prussian crown prince Friedrich Wilhelm and the crown princess Victoria on board the Prince Adalbert in the port of Kiel on occasion The embarkation of Prince Heinrich, Admiral Albrecht von Stosch from Daim-Gauge to No, Unknown

Project 26 - Operation Dominic (Johnston Island/Christmas Island/Maui, Hawaii) Detonation. Swordfish base surge. Aerial view with USS PRESTON, USS AGERHOLM & USS BAUSELL in foreground. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Stereoscopic View of Torpedo Explosion.. J.A. Williams (American, active 1850s - 1880s)

H.M.S. 'Hampshire'. From the album: Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF, 1914-1916, by Major John Rose.

The little 'Salmon' hits back. From the album: Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF, 1915, Gelibolu Yarimadasi, by Major John Rose.

Beach and France, Anonymous, 1940 - 1943 photograph Album magazine with six photos of the soldiers in their spare time on the beach, in Biarritz, at a workshop and a group photo with two women. Part of the photo album about soldiers of the Wehrmacht, ca. 1939-1943. Franceprinter: Apeldoorn paper. photographic support gelatin silver print the company, the unit, the troop ~ military service. beach (as place of recreation) Netherlands. Biarritz

Nazi Fireworks Display honoring German Workers, May Day, Germany, May 1, 1933

THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION, THE CROW'S NEST, 1875: "There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft"

Ub.Abbrice 28/1 1963. Kockums AB (depicted name), U 5 (depicted name)

The Rock of Gibraltar. From the album: Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF, 1914-1916, Gibraltar, by Major John Rose.

A British submarine in section showing how it attacks, drawing near to the enemy ship with only the periscope. Date: 1914

Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly. Yeah! That's "Kelly" sittin' up there on the aft gun barrel. "H.E. (High Explosive) Kelly" is the salty mascot of a Coast Guard-Manned invasion transport now helping to kick the daylights out of the Japs in the far Pacific. Born on an 83-footer in the Atlantic, "Kelly" has served on two oceans and only been ashore twice in his life - on the docks of Honolulu and on the Battle-scarred beach of Eniwetok. He's down on the ship's muster roll as a gunner's mate second class, promoted two jumps for his exceptional barking as Saipan. Kelly's closest chum and bunkmate is Coast Guardsman John Sheridan, Chief Boatswain's mate of 34 74th Street, Woodcliff, N.J.

A / B of a Dutch auxiliary mine sweeper in W.O. II

A War that is Won, but Never Ended - Coast Guard's Constant Battle with the Elements. Arctic Sunbath - Aboard a Coast Guard cutter in the North Atlantic, two Coast Guardsmen enjoy a sunbath and nap in the Arctic sun. The giant, jagged-edge iceberg in the background is typical of those which drift aimlessly through the northern seas to menace passenger and freight ships. Since the Titanic crashed into an iceberg in 1912 and went down with a loss of 1517 lives, the Coast Guard has been charged with the responsibility of combatting the icy mountains.

THE AUSTRIAN POLAR EXPEDITION

German officers and men aboard the 'Moltke'. Manned chiefly by conscription, the German navy was criticised for disrespecting International Law and sinking Allied merchant-ships without warning. Date: 1915

Washing Day. Mosquitoes I had ma doots. From the album: Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF, 1915, Gelibolu Yarimadasi, by Major John Rose.

Suez. From the album: Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF, 1914, Suez, by Major John Rose.

La Guerra Ilustrada . Contributor: El Coordinador de Asuntos Interamericanos. 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

German soldiers in Zandvoort, 1941, 1941 photograph Amateur photo of German soldiers from 1941 in Zandvoort. Seven men are in uniform on the edge of the sea. Zandvoort photographic support occupation ~ war. the company, the unit, the troop ~ military service Zandvoort

The present situation in Mexico: the US naval ports of embarkation. An aerial view, showing Pensacola, Mobile, New Orleans, Galveston and other southern naval and military stations in the United States. Hostilities had been suspended, pending the outcome of a mediation conference. Date: May 1914

This group portrait shows the crew on board the corvette Balder in 1882 .. This group portrait shows the crew on board the corvette Balder in 1882.

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