United States Coast Guard in World War II A History of Domestic and Overseas Actions
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A member of the United States Coast Guard Reserve from 1961 to 1969, Thomas P. Ostrom taught anthropology, geography, and history at Rochester Community College in Minnesota before retiring. He is a member of the U.S. Navy Memorial and the Naval Historical Foundation.“provides a thorough, comprehensive account of the Coast Guard’s wartime service”—<i>Seapower</i>; “extensively researched and well-written history”—<i>Baird Maritime</i>; “Ostrom gives us most enlightening lessons on the ‘Guardian of the Heartland’ that had previously been adequately recognized in U.S. combat history...World War II and Coast Guard history buffs alike will be pleased with Thomas Ostrom’s latest book. I can’t recommend this book highly enough”—<i>Proceedings.</i>
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.
Acknowledgments
Foreword by John Galluzzo
Preface
Introduction
1: Prelude to Pearl Harbor
2: The Day of Infamy: Pearl Harbor
3: U.S. Coast Guard Organization
4: Port Security, Navigation, and Aviation
5: Coast Guard Crews and Navy Ships
6: Defense from the Great Lakes to the Oceans
7: Admiral Russell R. Waesche: Wartime Commandant
8: Coast Guard Air and Sea Warfare
9: The Greenland Patrol
10: The Atlantic War
11: Guarding the Convoys
12: The Mediterranean: North Africa, Sicily, Italy
13: D-Day at Normandy
14: The Aleutians and the Bering Sea
15: The Pacific Campaign
16: Pacific Reminiscences
17: Return to the Philippines and Victory
Epilogue
World War II Era Coast Guard Chronology
Documents
A Letter Home from LCI-91 (29 December 1943), by Robert Morris
A Letter to His Minister (13 January 1944), by Robert Morris
Operation Neptune, LCI(L)-91 (10 June 1944)
Letter to the Secretary of the Navy: Loss of Ship (19 June 1944)
Coast Guard Unit Commendation for D-Day (6 June 1944)
A Letter to Parents on the Death of Their Son Douglas Munro
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index