D Days In The Pacific With The U S Coast Guard
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D Days In The Pacific With The U S Coast Guard
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Author : Ken Wiley
language : en
Publisher: Casemate
Release Date : 2010-02-15
D Days In The Pacific With The U S Coast Guard written by Ken Wiley and has been published by Casemate this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An award-winning, personal account of US amphibious operations in WWII by a veteran Coast Guardsman—illustrated with photographs and drawings. During World War II, Ken Wiley was a Coast Guardsman on an attack transport in the Pacific. In this work of historical memoir, Wiley relates the complex and often nerve-wracking story of how the United States projected its power across six thousand miles of ocean. Each invasion was a swirl of moving parts, from frogmen to fire support, transport mother ships to attack transports. In this vivid account, Wiley “brings the reader close to the experiences of another band of brothers,” from the camaraderie of young men facing unimaginable circumstances to the last terrifying stage when courageous soldiers stormed the beaches (Military Illustrated). Wiley participated in the campaigns for the Marshall Islands, the Marianas, the Philippines, and Okinawa. He recounts each with a precise eye for detail, relating numerous aspects of landing craft operations, such as ferrying wounded, that are often overlooked. Winner of the 2008 Foundation for Coast Guard History Book Award.
D Days In The Pacific With The U S Coast Guard
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Author : Ken Wiley
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc
Release Date : 2010-02-15
D Days In The Pacific With The U S Coast Guard written by Ken Wiley and has been published by Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-15 with History categories.
In this book, a Coast Guardsman on an Attack Transport in the Pacific relates the intricate, often nerve wracking story of how the United States projected its power across 6,000 miles in the teeth of fanatical Japanese resistance. He relates numerous aspects of landing craft operations, such as ferrying wounded, that are often discounted.
The United States Coast Guard In World War Ii
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Author : Thomas P. Ostrom
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2009-08-11
The United States Coast Guard In World War Ii written by Thomas P. Ostrom and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-11 with History categories.
At home and overseas, the United States Coast Guard served a variety of vital functions in World War II, providing service that has been too little recognized in histories of the war. Teaming up with other international forces, the Coast Guard provided crewmembers for Navy and Army vessels as well as its own, carried troops, food, and military supplies overseas, and landed Marine and Army units on distant and dangerous shores. This thorough history details those and other important missions, which included combat engagement with submarines and kamikaze planes, and typhoons. On the home front, port security missions involving search and rescue, fire fighting, explosives, espionage and sabotage presented their own unique dangers and challenges.
The United States Coast Guard And National Defense
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Author : Thomas P. Ostrom
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2011-10-14
The United States Coast Guard And National Defense written by Thomas P. Ostrom and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-14 with History categories.
In addition to port security, ship inspection and safety, law enforcement, and search and rescue, the U.S. Coast Guard assumes an important role in national defense at home and abroad. To that end, the Coast Guard has carried out separate and coordinated missions with other armed forces from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, Mediterranean, Persian Gulf, and North Polar region. This chronicle of the Coast Guard's contributions to national defense examines participation in World War I, World War II, Korea, the Cold War, Vietnam, and the War on Terror. Among the topics explored are defense threats, drug trafficking, and border security, as well as Coast Guard personnel, training, leadership, and assets.
United States Coast Guard Annotated Bibliography
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Author : United States. Coast Guard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
United States Coast Guard Annotated Bibliography written by United States. Coast Guard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with categories.
Pacific Lst
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Author : Stephen C. Stripe
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2024-01-31
Pacific Lst written by Stephen C. Stripe and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-31 with History categories.
There were 231,000 men and 10,000 women who served in the Coast Guard during World War II. – and 1,918 of them did not return home. At its height, the Coast Guard manned 802 ocean going cutters, 351 naval vessels, 288 Army watercraft, smaller vessels assigned to escort and port security, and 165 aircraft. Stephen C. Stripe, an amateur historian whose father, Max E. Stripe, served in the Coast Guard during World War II, tells the fascinating story of LST 791 and her Coast Guard crew, from commissioning to the end of the war in this book. The book focuses on Okinawa, which was the site of the largest amphibious invasion during the war in the Pacific. LST 791 delivered Marines and supplies to the invasion beaches. Its crew manned weapons during a kamikaze assault to protect a nearby hospital ship. When the war ended, the crew shifted from preparing to invade Japan to transporting occupation troops to the string of islands. The book includes the memoirs of Skipper Lt. Cmdr. A. Duncan to provide firsthand observations and details on the important role that LST 791 played.
Paradise Of The Pacific
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1944
Paradise Of The Pacific written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1944 with Hawaii categories.
Us Coast Guard In World War Ii
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Author : Alejandro de Quesada
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2011-12-20
Us Coast Guard In World War Ii written by Alejandro de Quesada and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-20 with History categories.
Alex de Quesada reveals the full history of the US Coast Guard throughout World War II in this Elite title. In particular, the book draws attention to the little-known story of how the US Coast Guard ran a number of the landing craft throughout D-Day in 1944 as well as providing crucial anti-U-boat patrols throughout the war years. A number of Coast Guard servicemen were lost in these two campaigns, and their undeniable contribution to the US war effort deserves greater recognition. The Coast Guard also provided aviators and gunners to the Merchant Marine and manned Port Security Services. These roles are all fully explained and illustrated with rare photographs and specially commissioned artwork.
The Fighting Coast Guard
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Author : Mark A. Snell
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Release Date : 2022-12-09
The Fighting Coast Guard written by Mark A. Snell and has been published by University Press of Kansas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-09 with History categories.
This collection of essays, written by some of the foremost historians in the field of Coast Guard history, highlights the wartime roles played by the United States’ oldest federal maritime service, from its inception through the last decade of the twentieth century. The Fighting Coast Guard features three distinct sections: “Beginnings,” which includes a short overview of the US Revenue Cutter Service (the USCG’s primary forerunner, established in 1790) and two chapters on World War I; “Conflagration,” the role of the USCG during the World War II era; and “The Cold War and Beyond,” an assessment of the Coast Guard’s participation in the Korean Conflict, the Vietnam War, and the Persian Gulf War of 1991. The Fighting Coast Guard is a significant contribution to the limited historiography of the Coast Guard and a critical analysis of various wartime roles undertaken by the Coast Guard during America’s twentieth-century conflicts. Because the Coast Guard operated as part of the Department of the Navy during the two world wars, its service and history is often overlooked or envoloped by the larger service, while the USCG’s limited participation in cold and hot wars since 1945 is often ignored altogether. This anthology provides readers with a solid overview while highlighting some of the service’s most important contributions as a combatant force. This definitive study of the role of the US Coast Guard in wartime, from its modern inception in 1915 through the end of the twentieth century, is long overdue and will shed new light on America’s smallest military service.
United States Coast Guard
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Author : United States. Coast Guard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1945
United States Coast Guard written by United States. Coast Guard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1945 with categories.