U.S. Coast Guard News
Cesar Romero: Hollywood Star, WWII Seaman
[By Nora L. Chidlow] In the pre-dawn hours of June 15, 1944, American cannon fire fell from the sky and Allied aircraft dived t...
How the Fishing Fleet Served the U.S. Coast Guard in WWII
[By J. Edwin Nieves, public affairs officer, Coast Guard Auxiliary Division 6] In the early days of World War II, demand skyroc...
Merle Smith, First African-American USCG Academy Graduate, Dies at 76
A pioneer, commander, lawyer, athlete, husband, father, and friend are words that describe Cmdr. Merle Smith, Jr. The first Africa...
How One Buoy Tender Helped Thousands Escape New Orleans After Katrina
[By PO1 William A. Bleyer] On Aug. 28, 2005, the Coast Guard’s 160-foot construction tender Pamlico was spudded down on t...
The Coastguardsman Who Survived Two Sinkings on D-Day
[By Scott T. Price, Chief Historian, United States Coast Guard] On July 17, 1942, at the age of 18, Eugene Edwin Oxley, enliste...
USCG Carries Out Fisheries Enforcement in the Philippine Sea
The Coast Guard Cutter Kimball has concluded a successful two week patrol to counter illegal, unreported and unregulated fis...
A Break in the Silence: The Sound of a Winter Arctic Voyage
On a months-long winter mission to project U.S. sovereignty and to conduct scientific research, the Coast Guard cutter Polar Star,...
The Cutter Daphne and the “North Atlantic Vegetable War”
[By Cmdr. William A. McKinstry, United States Coast Guard] As the crew of the Ganeff [sic] told it, they were anchored on...
Class of 1980: 40 Years of Women at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy
[Cmdr. Kathy A. Hamblett, United States Coast Guard retired] Framed as heroes, we are often labeled as courageous by others. To...
Photos: The USCG in the Persian Gulf War and the Origins of the PSU
[By Capt. John R. Olson, United States Coast Guard Reserve (retired)] Beginning in 1982, the United States Coast Guard assigned...