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.

Military Music Corps on the Bike, Anonymous, 1925 - 1935 photograph Netherlands photographic support gelatin silver print making music; musician with instrument. bicycle

The Coast Guard Brings Out the Wounded Into the Ambulance. From a Coast Guard-manned LST somewhere in the Pacific invasion zones, wounded fighters are taken ashore and placed in ambulances for a swift run to American base hospitals. Coast Guard crews have brought them safely back from the battle beaches.

Finska Flyktingar I HaParanda, Hösten 1944. Militar Sjukvård.

A Gi Of The 101St Airborne Division'S 327Th Infantry Regiment Poses With Some Children On His Tour Of Berchtesgaden, Germany.

The "Flying Admiral" Drops In. Vice Admiral Russell R. Waesche, the Commandant and "Flying Admiral of the U.S. Coast Guard, debarks from a PBM 81 to visit an air station somewhere on the Atlantic coast. Standing by the ladder is Coast Guardsman John G. Wertis, airplane machinist's mate first class, of Rockaway Beach, N.Y.

Photo collection First World War. Zeppelin Raider Brought Down. Examining One of the Four Huge Motors of the Zeppelin Brought Down in Last Night's RAID. 1914-1918}. Britain

Rome, Italy may 1964: Five men in uniform posing together for a photo, some standing and others crouching, in a paved courtyard, probably taken during the 1960s or 1970s

2nd Lt. Ann Ruth Orrick fixes her hair in front of an outdoor vanity somewhere in the Middle East. Miss Orrick is an Army nurse attached to a unit of the Ninth U.S. Air Force, near Bengasi, Cirenaica, Libya.

Few Units In The Army Air Forces, Mediterraniean Theatre Of Operations, Lack Representation In The Wall Murals In The Club Of Hotel Quisisana, Officer Hotel In The Army Air Forced Rest Center On Teh Isle Of Capri. Here A Group Of Restees Admire The 'Mura

Portrait of Military Soldiers Leaning Against Military Building, WWII, 2nd Battalion, 389th Infantry, US Army Military Base, Indiana, USA, 1942

Perth Amboy Coast Guardsman Meets Marine Brother in Mid Pacific. Two sons of Mrs. Anna Sipos of Woodbridge, N.J. meet at an advanced Coast Guard Base somewhere in the central Pacific. On the left is Coast Guardsman Windsor J. Lakis, Chief Photographer's Mate, assigned to a Coast Guard-manned LST as combat photographer, former staff photographer for the Perth Amboy News. On the right is Theodore Sipos, Plt. Sgt. USMC, a veteran of the Marshall and TInian Islands invasions.

Logon from a bunker. Two German soldiers and three German women in uniform overlook the landscape from the lookout of a bunker. In the background meadows. Photo on page 20 in photo album monitoring bunkers.

Other Project. 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

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

Coast Guard Cavalry. This image depicts an armed Coast Guardsman as he rides his mount through the sand dunes to track down attempts of enemy spies and saboteurs.

Admiral Shows Admiral. Navy Vice Admiral Alfred J. Johnson (left) by Coast Guard Admiral James Pine on the Thames River, Connecticut.

Alaskan Dog Meets South Sea Cat. Two mascots are too many - Aboard the Coast Guard-manned LST, "Kodiak," the dog from the Alaska waterfront, and "Tarawa," the cat from a Tarawa pillbox, just don't get along. The dog stuck to the enlisted men; the cat high-hatted him and trailed entirely with the gold braids. "Kodiak" sulked. "Tarawa" hunched her back and spat, "Keep your distance, big boy." Then the LST came home for a spell and "Tarawa" jumped ship. Not so "Kodiak." He's happy once more and saltier than ever. The ship is his, and he's sticking for the duration.

Foresters At Work: General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Road works. Hoffmann Photographs 1933 Adolf Hitler's official photographer, and a Nazi politician and publisher, who was a member of Hitler's intimate circle.

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Arfakkers settlers garden. August 1957. Guinea

Mrs. Harvey W. Moore, Jr., Welds the Sponsor's Christening Plate to the USS Spikefish. Original caption: Mrs. Harvey W. Moore, Jr., sponsor for USS Spikefish, welding the sponsor's christening plate to ship, April 25, 1944.. 1944-04-25T00:00:00.

Naval Stores - Florida. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Brant banding activity. Alaska Task Force Photographs

Hoffmann Photographs 1933 Adolf Hitler's official photographer, and a Nazi politician and publisher, who was a member of Hitler's intimate circle.

The picture represents three uniform-dressed crew members with white hoods and gloves on board the mincaft river tray during long journey 1966-1967.Included in albums with photographs from Älvsnabben's long journey 1966-1967.She declined 10/11 1966 from Karlskrona and went through the Suez Canal to Australia, US West Coast, through the Panama Canal via Dublin home to Marstrand 6/5 1967. The album contains images on board and on the visits you made in land.King Carl XVI Gustaf went on this trip and there was therefore a photographer on board.The album has belonged to Oskar Linde.

Photograph of Cesar Romero Aboard Coast Guard-manned Transport.

Santa Clara County, California, April 5, 1940 - Roadside Repair - On their way to the motorcycle hill climb, this motorcycle party stopped by the roadside while one of their machines was repaired. The girls were pillion seat riders.

Photographs Relating to the Minor Nuremberg Trials

Capt. William E. Smith, (now Maj.), 485 Central Ave., Hapeville, Ga., the best bombardier in the 9th AF, keeps in physical trim by chopping wood, which incidentally provides fuel for his tent stove. Capt. Smith has served as lead bombardier of his

A "Devil Dog" Respects The "Devil Dogs". This image depicts a group of Marines lined up for inspection by their famed "Devil Dogs" on the deck of a Coast Guard-manned assault transport carrying them toward the invasion beaches of Guam.

Goering Interview With Allied Press - May 1945. Newspapermen, Radio Cxommentators, Photographers, And Writers Interviewed Goering On German Military Matters Shortly After His Capture. Major Paul Kubla Was The Interpreter.

Greece 1916. The allies in the Balkans. British sandbag trench on the border of Greek Macedonia.

Photo collection Government information service. Series Print Anefo RVD Own Without Caption. Collection Photo collection Government information service own, photo number 156-0015. 1956

Fire Suppression: Special Crews - California. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Photo collection First World War. The Western Front in France. The SGT Major Shows His Regimental Mascot Called "Hedgy" to Mademoiselle Julie Rose, The Bakers Daughter. 1914-1918}. France

Eventide on The Way to Battle. Coast Guardsmen, off watch, and Yankee soldiers gather in their jammed quarters to "Bat the Breeze" aboard a Coast Guard-manned troop transport lugging reinforcements across the Atlantic to the Allied lines in the battle of Germany. Some pore through tattered magazines; others just sprawl in their bunks; others seek a spot on the deck to chip in their bits to a bull session.

"Just A Scratch" For This coast Guard Invader. Coast Guardsman Charles W. Tyner, fireman first class, examines the jagged shrapnel hole in the helmet he wore during the initial assault on the beaches of Southern France. It is hard to believe that Tyner, who lives at 2631 County Street, Portsmouth, VA., suffered just a superficial scratch. He came in with the invaders from a Coast Guard-manned assault transport.

Seven Who Survived the Leopold Sinking. These seven Coast Guardsmen, shown in a hospital somewhere in the British Isles, survived the sinking of the Coast Guard Destroyer Escort Leopold by a German submarine somewhere in the North Atlantic. Only 28 out of a complement of 208 escaped death in the loss of the vessel--one of the worst sea tragedies of the war. Here, Richard R. Novotny, seaman first class, of Riverside, Long Island, who suffered a back injury, is visited by six of his buddies, all of them survivors. The others are (standing, left to right) Cleveland E. Parker, Chief Commissary Steward, of Pulaski, Tenn.; W.G. O'Brien, seaman first class, of 4233 Gunther Avenue, New York City, N.Y.; Antone Freitas, Jr., seaman second class, of Fall River, Mass.; Joseph A. Burgun, soundman, third class, of Glen Rock, N.J.; (seated) Troy S. Gowens, seaman, first class, of 537 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y.; and Joseph M. Hanysz, seaman, first class, of 2660 Holbrook Avenue, Detroit, Mich.

Fire Suppression: Special Crews - California. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Naval Stores - Hacking (Chipping). Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

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

Aviator viewing status at XIII. Korpskommando in Buczacz at the observer. Recorded 24. III. 1916 at inf.rgt.nro.5. .

United States: June 17, 1917 College men who are training at the Aerial Coast Patrol to be part of the U.S. Aviation Corps.

Swedish soldier holds a child.

Coast Guard Photog Covers Pacific Action. Literally stripped from action, Coast Guard Combat Photographer Dee Molenaar (right) and a chum, Coast Guardsman Albert Martensen, Electrician's Mate First Class, are shown at a base which the Coast Guard is setting up in the Central Pacific. Molenaar's home is at 1040 West 88th Street, Los Angeles, Calif. He is a Photographer's Mate Second Class. Martensen's home is at Sunnyside, Wash.

Personnel carry out track work.

His Undersea Raider Under the Sea for Keeps. This image depicts the captured commander of a German submarine which was sunk by a Coast Guard cutter.

Anti-Saboteur Patrol. "Dressed to kill" and armed to the teeth, is this rugged Coast Guardsman at a lonely northern outpost, as he stands his ground ready to repel enemy attempts to land spies and saboteurs on our shores.

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

Workman at Shasta Dam reads war extra. Shasta County, California 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Shasta County

Emergency Mass Feeding, Fort Dix, New Jersey 1954 , Civil defense, Ovens, Cookery. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Prevent off the job accidents, away from work the hazards double , Ordnance industry, Armories, Exhibitions, Safety, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

Soldier Relaxing on Ground Near Military Building, WWII, 325th Infantry, US Army Military Base , Camp Claiborne, Louisiana, USA, 1942

Alcan Highway under construction. Two African American men, Private James. A. Jackson and Private First Class Willie Lee Jell, posing for the camera as they make repairs on a motor grader, 1942.. 1942. Photographs. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. War work, Defense industry, Mechanics (Persons), African American soldiers, Alaska Highway

Members of 332nd Fighter Group in Briefing Room, Foreground (left to right) Gentry E. Barnes, Lawrenceville, IL, 44-D; Samuel W. Watts, Jr., New York, NY, 44-E; Wendell M. Lucas, Fairmont Heights, MD, 44-E, Ramitelli, Italy, Toni Frissell, March 1945

Photograph of a Wounded Nazi Prisoner, One of the First Captured by the Allies When They Invaded France. Wounded Nazi Prisoner is Treated. The pulse beat of the war throbs slower for this wounded Nazi prisoner one of the first captured by the Allies when they invaded France. Safely aboard a Coast Guard transport en route to internment in this country, he rests in a comfortable sick bay bed while Coast Guardsman Richard Lawler, of 166 High Street, READING, MASS., take his pulse.

Rendezvous In The Jungle. This image depicts two Coast Guardsmen from an assault transport meeting up with two bearded and browned U.S. Navy men as their boats pass on the jungle waterway.

Naval Stores - Cupping. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Pictures of life at the front or in the hinterland, Russian war showplatz.

Photo collection First World War. The British Western Front The Battle or Broodeinde. Washing as Mother Does it .. 1914-1918}. Belgium, bread end

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. captain's cabin rich excessive space. December 1953

Elsevier photo collection. allied troops occupy city liberated Indonesia, Japanese commander usually exercises authority. immediately detention subject strict question, informed local usually provides information interned citizen. Japanese officer questioned Nica officer West Timor location, ed.. October 1945. Indonesia, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Timor

Not so fast! With a quick flip of his right hand, Chief Kessler knocks the gun into a harmless firing position and faces his opponent.

Coast Guard-Manned Ship is "Hospital" Off Saipan. Into the sick bay of a Coast Guard-manned assault transport in the invasion of Saipan comes a wounded American fighter for treatment. His jaw was shattered by a Jap fire in the fierce struggle to secure the Yankee beachhead and force the enemy back into the island's interior. Treating him is Dr. William Calhoun (right), U.S. Public Health Service, of New Orleans, Louisiana, and Coast Guardsman Jack Schwartz, pharmacist's mate third class, of Atlantic City, N.J.

Photograph of a Japanese Prisoner of War Being Examined and Treated by American Medical Officers. Jap Prisoner Treated on U.S. Ship. Aboard a Coast Guard-manned assault transport, a Japanese prisoner of war is examined and treated by American medical officers after he was taken in the swift attack and capture of Parry Island. Both Koreans and Japs were rounded up and most of them appeared happy that the war was over as far as they were concerned.

After retreat, Camp Claiborne, La. , Military facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

The Lyle Gun, Employed to Shoot Lines Over Shipwrecks. Lifesaving Service Activities and Equipment, 1918. Department of the Treasury

Burly, Bronzed, And Bearded. There isn't a Coast Guardsman afloat in the Pacific who doesn't think his ship is the best--and that goes for everything aboard her, including the beards. The men aboard this Coast Guard-manned invasion supply ship, which took part in the Okinawa assault, have selected these husky, hirsute Coast Guardsmen as typical of their superior chin-whiskered crew. Left to right, the spinach wearers are: Gilbert L. Wright, Boatswain's Mate, First Class, Detroit; Stephen Gracin, Boatswain's Mate, First Class, Binghamton, N.Y.; L. H. Esslin, Motor Machinist's Mate, Third Class, Detroit; Kermit A. Hanson, Motor Machinist's Mate, Second Class, Grand Forks, N.D.; and John Enderle, Motor Machinist's Mate, First Class, Detroit.

Jeep in action, Camp Pickett, Va. , Military facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

John O'Brien. Alaska Task Force Photographs

Caribou hunter, Frankie Jones from Amber. Alaska Task Force Photographs

China Grove Coast Guardsman on Atlantic Convoy Duty. Coast Guardsman Albert R. McNeely, chief electrician's mate, of China Grove, N.C., puts the ship's mascot to bed in a battle helmet aboard a Coast Guard-manned destroyer escort. The sea-going kitten is a veteran of several Atlantic crossings aboard the sleek escort ship which safeguards the passage of troops and supplies bound for the Battle of Germany.

Graduation Exercises Of The Peruvian Air Mechanics Attached To The 1St Air Depot Group In Panama. 10 July 1943.

Machinengewehr-Unterstand an der flandrischen Küste.. text. Postcards, Photographs. 1914 - 1918. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Machine guns, World War, 1914-1918 , Equipment and supplies

Armorer Removes Machine Gun From North American P-51 Mustang For Routine Inspection. Italy

David Zoochni and Innokenty Golodoff. Alaska Task Force Photographs

Buff Bolan and Ted Swem (in foreground, right to left). Alaska Task Force Photographs

Philip Crafts. Alaska Task Force Photographs

March dog-sleding camp upper Anaktuvuk Valley. Alaska Task Force Photographs

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