Coast Guard Operations in WWII

Black-and-white images depicting Coast Guard personnel engaged in various wartime activities, including communications, medical evacuations, and vigilant patrols at sea.

Nazis Captured At Greenland Weather Base. This image depicts twelve Germans who were knocked out of the war when Coast Guardsmen from a combat cutter made a surprise raid on their radio-weather station.

Communications: Radios - Idaho. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

""For the Emperor--"". This Jap died manning his gun as American invaders swept over Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Coast Guardsman Ted Randolph, yeoman first class, of St. Paul, Minn. Looks over the crumpled figure who gave his life for the Son of Heaven.

"Ambulance Run" From Eniwetok. A Coast Guard coxswain puts his landing craft "ambulance" to full speed as two wounded American fighters are rushed from the battle-torn beach of Eniwetok to a transport lying off shore. His Coast Guard crew, which aids in the manning of the landing craft, stand ready to hoist the wounded aboard the mother ship.

The Marts of Trade In The South Seas. This image depicts Coast Guard Lt. Robert Muldoon visiting a Papuan mission on New Guinea.

Bridge Of A Transport Always On The Alert. Captain D.C. McNeil, USCG (left), studies the horizon from the bridge of a Coast Guard-manned transport, where a constant alert is kept for prowling enemy submarines or bombers. The transport is heaed for combat zones somewhere in the Pacific.

Tacloban Air Strip Captured - At A Cost. An American medium tank hit a Jap land mine in surging forward to the Tacloban Air Strip during the early stages of the Philippines invasion on October 20. Here, a Coast Guard Combat Photographer finds one of the wounded from the wrecked tank being bandaged by a medical corpsman. The air strip at Tacloban, capital of Leyte Island, fell under an irresistible Yankee attack.

Nazis Captured At Greenland Weather Base. This image depicts twelve Germans who were knocked out of the war when Coast Guardsmen from a combat cutter made a surprise raid on their radio-weather station.

Logging Camps and Crews - West Virginia. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Historical Safety - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Photograph of Coast Guardsmen with Salvaged Japanese Bicycle. Coast Guardsmen Salvage Jap Bike. Coast Guardsmen try out a Japanese bicycle which they culled from the bomb and shell-shattered ruins of Kwajalein atoll in the Marshalls. Coast Guardsmen helped to man landing craft that carried the invaders to the strategic Jap stronghold in the South Pacific. Hundreds of bicycles were found by the invaders.

"Morning routine activities at the School of Aerial Photography, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. This photograph captures students engaged in undisclosed tasks on March 26, 1919. For official use only."

Description: Photographs of the Cavalry Regiment annual sports at Samakh, Palestine Location: Samakh, Palestine Date: 1947

Clearing land at Berwyn, Maryland. Greenbelt, Md. Sept., 1935-Aug., 1939. A model community planned by the Suburban Division of U.S. Resettlement Administration.. Photographs. 1936-03. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Coast Guardsmen Father and Son in Philippine Invasion. A father and son, both Cost Guardsmen, collaborated when America's mighty Pacific Armada drove its liberation wedge into the Philippines on Leyte Island. Coast Guard Lieut. (JG) Harold E. Dennis (left) serves aboard a Coast Guard-manned Invasion Transport, and his boy, Coast Guardsmen Harold E. Dennis, Jr., is a radio technician second class, aboard a Coast Guard patrol frigate. Good fortune brought them together for a short time on the way to the Philippines. Lieutenant Dennis, a World War I veteran who came back for more, participated in the Marshall Island, Guam, and Peleliu Invasions. Their home is a 117 Washington Street, Portsmouth, Va.

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The Gooney Bird Makes a Pin-point Landing. Numbed on the wing by the thundering guns of a Coast guard-manned fighting ship at target practice somewhere in the South Pacific, this bird came in on a couple of wings and a prayer and made a pin-point landing on the helmet of Coast Guardsman George Lambrinos, Boatswain's mate second class, of New York City. Coast Guardsmen call the creature a Gooney Bird. Lambrinos, at his gun station, might well be modeling the latest millinery creations for the warswept Pacific. The Coast Guardsmen, who lives at 348 W. 48th Street in New York City, has a brother, Peter, who has served three and a half years in the Coast Guard.

Battery exercise with a 40L70 fire mouth. A clip with four patterns is placed in the right munitiek. In this case, the MunitieTek can be seen that this cannon had a so-called "short room" to say. 40l60 ammunition. The width of the MunitieTek has also been made smaller for this.

Courage - And Prayer - Save A Coast Guardsman. Coast Guardsman George A. Sarisky has been re-christened by shipmates aboard a Coast Guard-manned supply ship on which he serves. His new name is "Lucky". During a tropical storm in the southwest Pacific, Sarisky, who hails from Atlas, Penna., fell overboard in the dead of night. Luck, stimulated by his own prayers, let his shouts be heard. A radio message to an attendant Australian corvette brought prompt response. A tiny dot in the raving seas, the corvette's searchlight finally spotted him. A line heaved from the deck linked him to life and security like a thread of kindly Fate. Later, safe aboard his own ship again, Sarisk accepted his new name of "Lucky" - and remembered to murmur his thanks to the Source of All Life.

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Elsevier photo collection. Series: Training Dutch military kites Randolph Fig Texas Dutch student kites T-6 North American lesson plane. Kadet J.C. Lemstra Ootmarsum wing climb cockpit, H.F. Hogendorf Arnhem (left) B.G. Van Wijnen Baarn. February 10, 1951. America, Randolph Field, Texas

Hunting - North Carolina. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Machine gun at the Royal Hungarian Landsturm .batillion No. VI / 20.

Stars on Ice. This image depicts Coast Guardsman Carl H. Stevens holding an American flag that was ripped by icy storms in the North Atlantic.

Republican soldier hijacks train and driver, 1949 documentary photographs Republican soldier with rifle hangs from the locomotive with the operator () Beside him, which he overpower and forces to drive to Tandjungrasa, where the Republican soldiers of the Siliwangi division plunge the train. photographic support Indonesia

Training Fire Crews - All States. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Brooklyn Coast Guardsman Combat Artist in Atlantic. Coast Guardsman Jacob Lawrence, Specialist Third Class, of 385 Decatur Street, Brooklyn, N.Y., exhibits one of his drawings to a group of soldiers aboard a Coast Guard-manned troop transport carrying reinforcements to battle areas across the Atlantic. Lawrence, a combat artist, is making a pictorial record of life aboard his ship. He and his mates are engaged in a vital task - helping to maintain a constant flow of supplies to American fighting men on far-flung fronts.

Family Units: General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. No caption man sleeps british front ship. December 1953. Guinea

The Royal Netherlands Marine during the Korea War 1950-1953. Drill head battery on Hr.Ms. Evertsen.

Hunting - Georgia. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

"Rover Joe" -- A Gound-Air Tactical Method Used By Mediterranean Allied Air Forces To Coordinate Fighter-Bombers And Infantry Action In The Mountain Approaches. "Rover Joes" (Usually Former Pilots) Spot Enemy Targets And By Radio, Relay Locations To Maaf

Sailor Blacksmith. This image depicts Coast Guardsman Joe Opalka, demonstrating how he fits the horseshoes to the horses feet for patrol.

Photo collection Spaarnestad topics. Liberation Netherlands 1944 also contains photos from 1945. Dutch brightness! Women from Bunschoten in her beautiful traditional costume brush the tanks, in a very typical Dutch way her gratitude. May 7, 1945. Bunschoten, the Netherlands

On Watch. This image depicts two Coast Guardsmen on watch, having spotted something suspicious.

Equipment. Original caption: Miscellaneous. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Diving. This image depicts Coast Guardsmen preparing for a dive.

Man charging weapons..

Soldiers marching in formation during a military parade in a city square. The soldiers are wearing uniforms and carrying rifles on their shoulders. Crowds of onlookers can be seen lining the streets, observing the display of military strength.

Talks to Headquarters from "Out In The Frozen No-Where". This image depicts Coast Guardsman Don Lindberg contacting his Alaskan base by walkie talkie.

Civilian Conservation Corps - Idaho. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Fire chief, volunteer fire department. San Augustine, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , San Augustine, Texas , San Augustine County

All-Star Backfield in Saipan Offensive. Coordination of the four American fighting services routed the Japs again in the invasion of Saipan, enemy base on the road to Tokyo. These four leaders of the Coast Guard, Army, Navy, and Marine Corps helped Vice Admiral Turner thrust control of the Japan's intermediate defense bastion in the Central Pacific. Studying a relief map of Saipan are (left to right): Coast Guard Captain D.C. McNeil, of Boston, Mass.; Army Col. Harlan R. Staphan of Washington, D.C; Navy Captain John Hansen of New London, Conn.; and Marine Corps Col. L.R. Jones, of Indian Head, MD.

Communications: Radios - California. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Coast Guard Ship is Hit. Wounded American fighters lay on stretchers on the deck of a Coast Guard LCI (landing craft, infantry), ready to be transferred to an assault transport just before the Coast Guard ship rolled over and sank after being hit during the invasion of the French Coast. A dead soldier can be seen sprawled on deck at the left.

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Port Security Work. This image depicts Coast Guardsmen boarding a foreign vessel for inspection in Gravesend Bay.

Elsevier photo collection. Allied army exercise "Hold Fast" West Germany. Dutch soldiers action, lie buried woods. soldiers shelter meal. left W. Reterink (Twente), M. Moerman (Moerdijk), E. Schwier (Amsterdam), A. Dubbelt (Rotterdam). September 17, 1952. B.R.D., Germany

Coast Guard Combat Photogs on Iwo Jima Beach. Coast Guard combat photographers Reford R. Gravell (left), of 703 Millington Avenue, Winfield, Kansas, and Charles W. Bossert, of 213 San Francisco Avenue, Long Beach, California, pause for a breathing spell and smoke on the ashy, volcanic beach of Iwo Jima. Between two slight rises in ground the photogs and Marines in background are afforded some concealment from Jap fire. Gravell covered the invasion for "Leatherneck", Marine Corps Magazine.

Hunting - Missouri. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Only Survivors of Lost Coast Guard Cutter. The only two survivors of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter ESCANABA, lost while on convoy duty in the North Atlantic, are photographed aboard the Coast Guard cutter that rescued them. The two Coast Guardsmen, wearing clothes given them by fellow sailors, are Melvin Baldwin, left, of Staples, Minn., and Raymond F. O'Malley, Chicago, Ill.

Reunion at Saipan. Former Washington, D.C. newspaper cameramen, Coast Guard combat photographer Bob Gates and Staff Sergeant Andy Knight of the Marines are shown aboard a Coast Guard-manned assault transport at Saipan where they met for the first time since they enlisted in their respective services.

Coast Guard Fire Fighters. This image depicts Coast Guard fire fighters directing streams of water.

Project 20 - Operation Greenhouse (Enewetak) Test Activities. Animal Exposure Containers on Vehicle. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Full-Length Seated Portrait in Military Uniform, Montauk, New York, USA, Photograph by Siegel-Cooper Co., September 1898

Red Cross Worker With Soldiers, World War Ii

Coast Guard lands 'Em At Hollandia. This image depicts American troops, transferred from a Coast Guard-manned assault transport onto Coast Guard-manned landing craft, ready to attack the beach at Aitape.

People observing tank , Ordnance industry, Armories, Exhibitions, Tanks Military science, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

Capetown. From: World War I photograph album, 1919, by Herbert Green.

A German soldier and a burger for a wooden shack, 1940 - 1945 photograph A German soldier and a burger for a wooden shack. Photo belonging to album 'KriegSerinnerungen'. Germany photographic support gelatin silver print Germany. Netherlands

Damaged German soldiers in Hallsberg during World War II.

Camping and Picnicking - West Virginia. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Photo collection Government information service. Some infiltrators have been drawn into trees, but the Marines soon have them on the grain infilitration in New Guinea by Indonesians. November 1954. New Guinea

Smokejumpers: General - All States. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

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New Hampshire, 1956 , Civil defense, Exhibit booths. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Wehrmacht soldiers at Peelstelling, 1940 photograph Group of German soldiers, probably from the Luftwaffe, stand by a tree at the Peelstelling/ Moerdijk Moerdijk photographic support gelatin silver print occupation ~ war. the company, the unit, the troop ~ military service Moerdijk

Personnel from the Lottery Corps and the Red Cross submit supplies to wounded German soldiers. These are aboard a German healthcare train in Hallsberg during the Second World War.

Port Security's a Coast Guard Job. Here at the gateway to a busy embarkation port Coast Guard shore patrolmen and Army military police both stand guard, checking credentials of all seeking entrance.

Foresters at Work - Minnesota. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Photo collection Government information service. Series Print Anefo RVD Own Without Caption. Collection Photo Collection National Information Service Private, Photo number 156-1203. 1956

Men at cannon..

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. "Cycrop" bridge. December 1953. Guinea

""So Long, Irish! and Good Luck!"". Coast Guardsman Kenneth A. Snow (left), chief boatswain's mate, bids farewell and good sailing to his pal, "Irish," the mongrel mascot of a company of combat troops. "Irish," with his company, are transferring from a Coast Guard-manned assault transport to an LST somewhere in the Southeast Pacific, pending invasion action against the Japs. Loyally, the pup has stuck with his buddies from training camps in the U.S. to the verge of battle. Coast Guardsman Snow, a veteran of invasions in both the Atlantic and Pacific, lives at 95 South Santa Cruz Street, Ventura, Calif.

Gallia. "Propaganda photography: apprentice Charron at work, Saint-Etienne vocational school". At the Professional School of Saint / Etienne .... / N.P.M. Apprentices are charged. Gelatino-silver-bromide draw. Dactylographed legend in black ink. in 1942-07-22-1942-07-22. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 144780-15

An air force officer (with pet backwards) films the cash reference to the Royal Netherlands Air Force by H.M. Koningin Juliana.

Trampus. "Propaganda photography: apprentice rising a rod on a form of shoes, romantic shoemaking school". A job for our children. / The Cordonration School of Romans. / Mounting by an apprentice: from one / rod on a form. / V.88.389. Gelatino-silver-bromide draw. Dactylographed legend in black ink. in 1943-11-29-1943-11-29. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 144784-20

Sunlight Signal for Assistance. In a simulated rescue off the Atlantic Coast, Coast Guardsmen on a life raft catch the sun's rays and relay them to a passing plane by use of a mirror. These directed beams attract fliers' attention to the tiny raft drifting on the ocean. Here, Coast Guardsman Philip Jacobs, of Philadelphia, Pa. demonstrates the signal mirror rescue technique. His raft-mate in the test in Coast Guardsman Donald Patterson of Zanesville, Ohio.

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The Mystery Boy Of The German Water Front (No. 2 In A Series of 7 Photos). Not All Painters -Not all painters are sailors, but all sailors are painters. The mystery boy, Eddie Didion, adopted crew member of the Coast Guard cutter EAGLE, is learning this fact by experience. The EAGLE is tied up at a Bremerhaven deck while Seaman 2nd Class Robert Schlapinski, of Trenton, N. J., breaks Eddie in on a never-ending Coast Guard chore.

This weird figure is a chemical warfare man carrying two Sulphur Trioxide smoke bombs.

Muskegon Combat Photographer Covers South France Invasion. Coast Guard Combat Photographer Dale Rooks, Photographer's mate second class, stands by a signpost marking the route of American invasion forces after they smashed their way to a beachhead on the French Riviera. Rooks lives at 1258 Sanford Street, Muskegon, Mich.

Fritz Calls it Quits. Captured in France, these German prisoners-of-war appear docile and content with their fate as they are moved westward across the Atlantic aboard a Coast Guard-manned transport. The arrogance of Nazi "supermen" has softened under American "fair play" treatment and good rations aboard the ship. The prisoners are bound for internment in the United States.

Civilian Conservation Corps - Nevada. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Emergency Operation On Coast Guard-Manned LST Provides Pre-invasion Drama on Way to Iwo Jima.. This image depicts Dr. Vernon G. Guenther, USPHS, bracing himself on a pitching deck as he performs an emergency appendectomy on Navy ensign Abraham Krutman. He is assisted by Lieut. (JG) Albert S. Zdanis, and Earl L. Wilcox.

Photograph of Coast Guardsman Raymond J. Evans. Coast Guardsman's best friend killed by Japs while making valiant rescue. Bitter Jap-hater is 22-year-old Coast Guardsman Raymond J. Evans, veteran of the Solomons. He saw his best friend killed when he volunteered to remove American troops from a beach dominated by Jap gunfire and remained to the end in self sacrifice that others could live. The friend, Douglas A. Munro, of South Cle Elum, Washington, is a Coast Guard hero with whom Evans had previously shared narrow escapes. Another friend, Coxswain Robert J. Canavan of Chicago, swam 19 hours to safety after Japs had sunk his patrol boat and machine gunned his five mates to death in the water. Evans, who joined the Coast Guard in 1939, is a Chief Signalman. His home is at 1308 Seneca Street, Seattle, Washington.

Behind the Barbed Wire on Saipan. Taken prisoners in the fierce fighting that resulted in the American capture of Saipan, Japanese soldiers huddle on the ground behind barbed wire fencing under the watchful eye of a Coast Guardsman. They were some of the vaunted "sons of the Emperor" who preferred captivity to the glory of death in battle. The Coast Guardsman is Clarence Sutphin, boatswain's mate, first class, of Valley Stream, Long Island, N.Y.

Evert Ingemansson - submarine images..

Photo collection First World War. Salonie. Despatch Riders Carry Pigeons in Special Baskets to the Brigade. 1914-1918}. Greece, Saloniki

Goering Interview With Allied Press - May 1945. Newspapermen, Radio Commentators, Photographers, And Writers Interviewed Goering On German Military Matters In May 1945, Shortly After His Capture. Major Paul Kubla, From Elizabethtown, Kentucky, Was The Int

Coast Guard Searches Wreckage of Ill-fated Airliner. This image depicts Coast Guard vessels searching the wreckage of Linea Aeropostal Venezolana Flight 253 which caught fire and crashed in the Atlantic Ocean.

Combat Survivor. U.S. Coast Guard Lieutenant Benjamin Ayesa, native Filipino, prizes this jagged chunk of shrapnel - a souvenir of the battle off Cape Gloucester, New Britain Island, last December when his Coast Guard manned LST was beset by bombs in a furious Jap air attack and his anti-aircraft gunners shot down two of the enemy dive bombers. Lieutenant Ayesa, now in Washington, D.C., is living for the day when he will rejoin his family in Manila. He hasn't seen them since November, 1941.

Civilian Conservation Corps - Camps - California. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Signal Rescue Mirrors Tested. Types of signal mirrors used as rescue equipment on life rafts are demonstrated in the Atlantic with Coast Guardsman Philip Jacobs of Philadelphia, Pa. reflecting sunbeams to passing airplane. The directed beam catches the attention of the plane pilot and enables him to locate the tiny raft tossing on the broad surface of the sea. The pilot then summons surface craft to the rescue.

United States Coast Guard Bering Sea Patrol - Members of the "Floating Court". United States Coast Guard Bering Sea Patrol - Members of the famers "Floating Court" come aboard at Seward, Alaska. Being assisted by a Coast Guard officer from the NORTHWIND is Miss Virginia Olsen, Deputy Clerk of Anchorage, Alaskan. Transportation of the "Floating Court" is one of the duties of the NORTHWIND on Bering Sea Patrol.

Altar Boy On Deck: Chaplain Spots Him. Aboard a Coast Guard-manned transport in European combat waters, Army Chaplain Thomas J. Donnelly of Bronx, New York, saw one of his former altar boys working in the deck force, and summoned him to his stateroom for a chat. The young Coast Guardsman is Joseph N. Di Carluccio, son of Frank Di Carluccio of 239 East 122 Street, New York City. Seaman Di Carluccio was an altar boy at Holy Rosary Church, New York City, when Father Donnelly was priest of that parish.

Photo collection Spaarnestad topics. Polish prisoners of war. A person room of a Polish officer who spends his free time with German language study. October 1940. Poland

Ship's Position is still "Somewhere in the Pacific". This image depicts three Coast Guardsmen finding the position of their ship with sextants.

Rome, Italy may 1964: Black and white historical photo depicting a soldier standing next to a tent in a military camp, likely taken during the 1960s or 1970s

Caribou hunter. Alaska Task Force Photographs

Photo collection First World War. The Salonica Front. Forward O.P. Observation Post. {1914-1918}. Greece, Saloniki

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