Coast Guard Operations

Dramatic images depicting various Coast Guard missions, including rescue efforts and military support during historical events.

Coast Guard Combat Cutter In mountainous Seas. This image depicts a Coast Guard combat cutter ploughing through towering seas.
Coast Guard Combat Cutter In mountainous Seas. This image depicts a Coast Guard combat cutter ploughing through towering seas.
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Collection of World War I Photographs, 1914-1918 that depict the military activities of British and other nation's armed forces and personnel during World War I.
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Coast Guard Experiments With Radar "Reflectors" On Buoys. Reflectors resembling those on highway signs, placed on lighted and other types of buoys, double the usefulness of these well-known aids to navigation for shops using modern radar equipment. The Coast Guard has conducted experiments with various types of radar reflectors, and has found that a buoy with a reflector can be "picked-up" by a ship's radar at twice the distance than when the buoy alone is the target.
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Flag of Friendship on Beach of Luzon. Flag of Friendship on Beach of Luzon. Under a white flag of friendship, a group of Filipinos is caught by a Coast Guard combat photographer advancing to welcome American troops on the beachhead of Lingayen Gulf, Luzon. Soon after the heavy firing had ceased and the action had moved inland. Filipinos, young and old, quickly came out of their hiding places to rejoice in their liberation from Jap oppression.
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Collection of World War I Photographs, 1914-1918 that depict the military activities of British and other nation's armed forces and personnel during World War I.
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Soldiers of the 87th Division boarding the steamship "Manchuria" at the port of St. Nazaire, France, on March 27, 1919. This photograph was taken by an American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) photographer on January 10, 1919. There are 10 men visible in the image. (Photo code: 111-SC-44893)
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Elsevier photo collection. Korea rain heavily rivers occur outside banks. experienced Dutch volunteers stored tents water. September 10, 1951. Korea
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On The Watch. This image depicts a Coast Guard officer peering through his glasses, watching for signs of an enemy undersea raider.
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Photograph of the USS Delaware during World War One, taken in the 1910s by Munger. The photo was commissioned by the Public Information Committee in 1918. The image shows the U.S.S. Delaware, with its symbol clearly visible. This photograph was captured on the ship, possibly at sea.
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Coast Guard Brings Out Wounded From Wakde. Out of the massive jaws of a Coast Guard-manned LST come wounded American invaders, who were felled by Jap snipers' bullets in the swift but bitterly fought conquest of Wakde Island off the north Dutch New Guinea coast on May 18. Coast Guardsmen are shown removing wounded on the beach of Hollandia, 200 miles east, after participating in the attacks on Wakde and Sarmi. Their capture brought important air strips into Allied hands.
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Japanese Plane Wrecked at Makin. U.S. Army troops are photographed by a Coast Guard combat cameraman as they pause in their advance for a look at a Japanese seaplane during the battle of Makin. The plane was under repair in the lagoon when the invasion started. The Japanese used it as a machine gun nest until American fliers took care of it. The photographer is attached to a Coast Guard manned combat transport operating as part of a Navy task force.
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Photograph of Japanese Planes Crashing into the Sea. JAP PLANES CRASH INTO SEA. Japanese planes attempting to attack U.S. Coast Guard and Navy manned LSTs invading Cape Gloucester, New Britain, crash smoking into the sea.
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Landing Fields - Hawaii - Oahu Island, Aerial Photograph.
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Minneapolis Temporary Reserve Members of Division One perform an important job patrolling the river.
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Collection of World War I Photographs, 1914-1918 that depict the military activities of British and other nation's armed forces and personnel during World War I.
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Anefo photo collection. Repro Marvo Ship scrubs. August 15, 1949
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About To Take Off. This image depicts six pilots dressed for flight.
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Coast Guard Protects Atlantic Convoy. This image depicts a large merchant convoy steaming on its way across the sub-infested North Atlantic.
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Tanks support invaders. This image depicts Coast Guard-manned landing barges bringing tanks ashore during training on the East Coast of the United States.
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Hymns Before Battle. Moved to song while they moved toward battle, members of a Negro cavalry unit lighten their Atlantic voyage with hymns and spirituals. They are gathered on the after-deck of a Coast Guard-manned assault transport under the leadership of their chaplain, Lieutenant Joseph R. Cole, Army Chaplain Corps, of Jackson, Tennessee.
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USCGC Eastwind (WAGB-279) Antarctic, Operation Deep Freeze. R. Noyes, Gunner's Mate 1/c, of Boston, Mass., uses a bat to chip off the heavy ice covering the U. S. Coast Guard icebreaker's Eastwind three-inch guns after a blizzard in the Ross Sea during Antarctic Operation Deep Freeze. Severe coatings of ice are not unusual for 269-ft., 6,515-ton Eastwind which operates out of Boston. A veteran of the Arctic and Antarctic, the icebreaker's crew on frequent occasions has had to chip ice from the superstructure to maintain the ship's stability. This was the icebreaker's ninth year she participated with the U.S. Naval Support force for scientific stations in Antarctica.
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Invasion Tactics. Steel-helmeted Coast Guardsmen.. Somewhere on the Pacific.. aboard an invasion barge, standing ready to repel the enemy. Men of the Coast Guard played an important part in the landing of Marines on the Solomon Islands.
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""Ready -- Airm... Fire!"". This image depicts three Coast Guardsmen taking aim at a floating Japanese mine in the KII Suido straits off Japan.
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AG-157 King County , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy
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Polynesians Give the Invaders a Hand. A Coast Guard landing craft, dropping its ramp on the beach of Emirau Island, is met by a group of Polynesian natives who promptly volunteer their services as stevedores. Coast Guard-bourne Marines seized Emirau in the Bismark Archipelago without a fight. The Japs had skipped before the invaders struck.
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A crew member coaling the USS Leviathan (SP-1326) during World War One. Captain W. J. Aylward overseeing the process. Photo taken by RECO and the description indicates the activity is coaling the Leviathan. Issued symbol E notes: 162.
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This photograph depicts the arrival of the Leviathan, a ship carrying troops, at Hoboken, New Jersey on December 16, 1918. The image shows the Leviathan being towed into the slip. The photo was taken by Lt. Geo. H. Lyon on December 28, 1918 and was issued with the note "G Passed by M.I.D. censor" on December 30, 1918.
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A 'Gi' Tests A One Man Life Raft Off The Coast Of England On 1 September 1943.
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Okinawa Beachhead. The sea might of America closes in on Tokyo (April 13, 1945). Striking boldly at the west coast of Okinawa, Jap bastion in the Ryukyus, another formidable task force carves out a beachhead, this time about 350 miles from the Japanese mainland. Coast Guard-manned and Navy landing craft of all kinds blacken the sea out to the horizon, where stand the battlewagons, cruisers and destroyers.
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Battle Stations at Sunrise. Coast Guard gunners are alerted at their guns as a Coast Guard-manned LST moves through dangerous waters in the west Pacific. These carriers of vital war machinery are vigilantly protected around the clock against the dangers of surprise attacks by Jap bombers. This Coast Guardsman enjoys the golden fleece in the morning sky and yet knows that out of that beauty enemy planes may roar at any moment.
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Photograph of Nazi Fortifications Captured Before Completion. Nazi Fortifications Captured Before Completion. Hitler's vaunted Atlantic Wall proved vulnerable in many spots of the French invasion coast where the Germans were routed before they completed their installations for large coastal defense guns. With the wall penetrated and the Germans driven back, water off the French coast are thick with the traffic of Coast Guard and Navy-manned landing barges and LSTs.
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Beach, Sea, And Coast Guard. This image depicts a Coast Guardsman with a highly trained dog patrolling a lonely stretch of West Coast Beach.
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German military in Norway.
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Hold on, Mates, It's Gettin' Rough. This image depicts two Coast Guardsmen bracing themselves as they keep watch.
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Fylgia (depicted name).Fylgia (depicted name)
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Coast Guard Rescue. Cheating Davy Jones, U.S. Coast Guardsmen rescue a bedraggled panicky puppy from the water covered deck of a sinking ship. The puppy apparently had been overlooked by the crew.. ship and was found by Coast Guardsmen in a .. craft.
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Project 23 - Redwing (Enewetak/Bikini) Test Activities. F-101 aircraft on USS CURTISS. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.
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Photo collection Spaarnestad topics. Destroyances Netherlands 1941/1945. Groningen. 1945. The Netherlands
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Image of a 3-inch gun mounted on an American transport ship used to transport United States Marines to France during World War I. The photograph was taken on January 11, 1910. The image was released to the public in January 1918.
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Collection of World War I Photographs, 1914-1918 that depict the military activities of British and other nation's armed forces and personnel during World War I.
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Abandon-ship Drill, Coast Guard Cutter Pontchartrain.
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THE NAVAL MANOEUVRES, WITH THE NORTHERN FLEET
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Radio Direction Finder Station , Signal stations, Radio Direction Finder Station. Photographs of the First Naval District
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Project 24 - Operation Hardtack (Enewetak/Bikini/Johnnston Island Area) Detonation. Waves generated on Parry Island after OAK (31 of 34). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.
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Oblique of NAF Wake Island
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Project 24 - Operation Hardtack (Enewetak/Bikini/Johnnston Island Area) Detonation. Waves generated on Parry Island after OAK (33 of 34). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.
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Part Payment for Victory. On the deck of a Coast Guard-manned invasion transport somewhere in the Mediterranean, the body of a Yankee fighting man, killed in the invasion of Southern France, lies in state awaiting last rites and burial at sea. His flag-draped form represents part of the price of victory for the Allies in the successful smash against Hitlerism from the Mediterranean.
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Admiral Bristol the American High Commissioner in Constantinople tells Mr. Carpenter that the Turks should be given a chance and he believes they will make progress Admiral Mark Bristol who since the armistice has been the American High Commissioner in Constantinople and has protected American interests in stormy Allied days even at times using his strong fleet of American destroyers.. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection , Bristol, Mark L,(Mark Lambert),,1868-1939, Carpenter, Frank G,(Frank George),,1855-1924,Travel,Turkey,Istanbul, Balconies,Turkey,Istanbul,1920-1930.
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At Grips With a Maddened Sea. This image depicts frenzied seas crashing over the low decks of a Coast Guard-manned tanker somewhere in the South Pacific.
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Eastwind Resting at McMurdo, Deep Freeze 1963. Twenty miles from McMurdo Base, the U. S. Coast Guard icebreaker Eastwind (WAGB-279) rests on an ice lodge from the arduous task of ripping open leads through the frozen channel for Navy Task Force cargo ships delivering men, supplies, and equipment to the Base. Crewmen enjoy the respite, exercising on the ice and tanking camera snapshots. The ice this season was the heaviest yet encountered on Deep Freeze Operations. In addition to carrying fuel and stores to McMurdo Bases during this operation, the Eastwind helped break a 60-miles' channel through McMurdo Sound, carried fuel, supplies, and equipment to Cape Hallett scientific station, and carried out oceanographic surveys. This was the 269-ft. icebreaker Eastwind's fifth annual sojourn to the Antarctic with U. S. Naval Support Force for U. S. scientific stations and bases there. The icebreaker is based at Boston, Mass.
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June 28, 1918: This photograph, taken by Pvt. C.D. Donnelly, S.C., shows the explosion of a 3001lb. depth bomb from USS Whipple (DD-217) in the sea. The image was not intended for publication and is labeled as "issued for official use only."
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"Tern" of Events. A Coast Guard-Manned Amphibious "Duck" stand around waits to see what'll "Tern" up. Both he and the friendly little terns around him were swept off their webbed feet when the recent tidal wave threw its crushing power over the Coast Guard Loran Station on French Frigate Shoals, in the Hawaiian Islands.
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7Th Air Force Bomber Crew Men In Home-Made Vessels Line Up For The Start Of The 'Gas Tank Regatta', Off The Beach That Fringes Their Base In The Palau Islands, Caroline Islands. The 'Commodore' In The Borrowed Navy Cap Is Capt. Ed Sturm Of Sacramento, Ca
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The New Zealand main body leaving New Zealand, 8am, 16 October 1914. From the album: Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF, 16 October 1914, Cook Strait, by Major John Rose.
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Project 24 - Operation Hardtack (Enewetak/Bikini/Johnnston Island Area) Test Activities. Aerial obliques of Wotho, Rongelap and Utrik Islands used for briefing SAR pilots on safe approaches (3 of 9). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.
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Passage for Pierre the Pigeon. When a Coast Guard-manned troop transport left Europe recently bearing 5600 GI battle veterans homeward to the States, there was one passenger not on the ship's roles. Several hours out of Lehavre, France, Coast Guardsmen standing their watches noticed a pigeon perched on the covered gun barrel of a 20 mm anti-aircraft gun. The bird would circle out to sea, but an hour later it would be back on its perch. Almost immediately the men named the pigeon Pierre.
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Fotocollectie Eerste Wereldoorlog. With the British navy in war time. Torpedo coming to surface at the end of its run. 1914-1918}
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U. S. Army , Indigenous peoples, Sailboats, Seals Insignia, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States