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 Watch Box Fleet. The doughty fleet of Coast Guard 83-footers ply the rough waters of the English Channel off the coast of France. This Coast Guard rescue flotilla performed valiant service, saving almost 1500 men from the water on D-Day and the succeeding days.

Anti-aircraft Defense. This image depicts artwork of anti-aircraft fire from a Coast Guard-manned attack transport during the invasion of Saipan, painted by Coast Guard Combat Artist Jack B. Gildersleeve.

A view of the Victory Fleet at anchor in North River, taken from the deck of the Mayflower. Date received: Dec. 26, 1918. Date taken: Dec. 28, 1918. The photograph was reviewed and approved by the M.T.D. (Munitions Transport Division) censor.

Return from Battle. Off the bullet-swept beaches of France, wounded American fighters are taken out of the invasion fight aboard Coast Guard Landing barges. These sea "ambulances" run the wounded out into the English Channel where the men are transferred to Coast Guard assault transports for the voyage to England.

And That Is That. How to Plant a Mooring Buoy, in a series of difficult lessons by Coast Guard Buoy Tender, LAUREL. The last of the three ten-ton anchors, which are to hold securely the mooring buoy and the ships tied up to it, is about to take its appointed place on the bottom. When the wire hawser which is lifting the anchor has been slipped and reeved back through the shackle and returned to the deck, these Coast Guardsmen can heave a sigh of relief. A tricky operation and one that only rugged, hard-working men can handle, has at last been completed. The LAUREL is not free for her next assignment - probably planting mere buoys. Note: These scenes of Coast Guard action are laid in a Greenland Fjord.

Battle Drill. This image depicts Coast Guardsmen in a battle drill receiving instructions in gunnery.

Coast Guard Combat Cutter In mountainous Seas. This image depicts a Coast Guard combat cutter ploughing through towering seas.

The Parade Moves Eastward. Preparing for the D-Day against Hitler's European fortress, an Allied convoy steams eastward under protection of a Coast Guard fighting ship. This picture, taken from a Coast Guard combat cutter, shows four merchantmen moving over the vital Atlantic shipping lanes.

Derelict Destructions. This image depicts how the Coast Guard destroys or removes derelicts from navigation paths.

Transport Lays Smoke Screen in Marshalls. As a Coast Guard-manned combat transport lays a smoke screen to hide invading units during the assault upon the Marshall Islands, another transport is visible emerging from the thick protective cover.

Soldiers aboard a transport ship observe a patrol boat and destroyer addressing a submarine in the Atlantic during World War One. Photograph taken by C. P. I. photographer on August 6, 1918. The image was censored and released by the M.I.B. censor on August 8, 1918. Official document number: 111-SC-15353.

""Howdy, Coast Guard"". This image depicts Aleuts visiting with Coast Guard flyers.

Coast Guard 83-Footer "Dodges" Nazi Bomb. Nazi bombers, seeking to disrupt amphibious invasion forces off the coast of France, narrowly miss a Coast Guard 83-foot rescue craft, as a bomb explosion tosses its geyser in right background. Another Coast Guard rescue vessel, in foreground, picks up invaders from sinking landing craft at the height of the invasion sweep across the English Channel. The wooden Coast Guard 83-footers, famed as "sub-busters," saved hundreds of lives in the early hours of the invasion.

Coast Guard Sinks Ship to Avoid Disaster. This image depicts the Panamanian ship El Estero, loaded with munitions and swept by fire, sunk by Coast Guardsmen to prevent a disaster.

Amphibious Monster. This official Coast Guard photo, taken at Salerno, is the first picture of an LST (Landing Ship, Tanks) in the process of unloading to be released. Like giant monsters, they swing open their great jaws and belch out tanks and motorized equipment after Coast Guard and Navy crews drive them right onto the enemy beach.

Image shows American soldiers on board the "Hindenberg" boat, boating on the Rhine River in Nieder Briesig, Germany. Taken on December 19, 1918. Photographed by Sgt. Hainlin, Signal Corps.

Thousands Of Reinforcements Roll In. This image depicts Thousands of Americans swarming ashore from Coast Guard landing barges to fight the Nazis.

Guarding a Convoy. This image depicts members of the Coast Guard on alert at their battle stations.

Ships at an American port loading portable houses for the American Army in France during World War One. The photograph was taken in January 1918 and was released by W.C.D. to the Photo Division. The image is numbered 111-SC-2300 and was captured by photographer Sighc Lentz.

North Atlantic Supply Line. Eastbound over the North Atlantic, the supply ships keep moving to Europe. Under the vigilant watch of Coast Guard combat cutters, these convoys proceed through waters freed from the menace of the Nazi wolf pack ambush.

Safe on the Raft. #4 Safe on the Raft ---- Once on the new life saving raft the quintel of Coast Guardsmen shed their waterproof rainment during their demonstration of Merchant Marine lifesaving equipment.

Ready to Hit the Beach. An LST (Landing Ship, Tanks) heads in with full deck loads for the invasion of Cape Gloucester, New Britain. Bow of the LST above is already open, ready for men and machines to land. Navy and Coast Guard-manned LST's took part in this invasion.

Photograph of a Crewman Watching a Flash of Flame Burst from the Bow of a Gasoline Barge. Jap Bomb Touches Off Gasoline Barge Off Okinawa. From his battle station on a Coast Guard-manned LST, a crewman watches a flash of flame burst from the bow of a gasoline barge as Japanese planes score a direct hit in an attack upon the American task force off the coast of Okinawa. As American troops fanned out from the Okinawa beachhead, the Japs sent planes in desperate attacks against the Coast Guard-manned and Navy ships standing off shore.

Sailor On Horseback. This image depicts new methods of modern warfare in their vigilant beach patrols on anti-saboteur duties.

Tank steamer "Pearl Shell" with applied camouflage during World War One. This photograph was taken by Lt. William Fox, Signal Corps. It showcases the use of camouflage on ships to deceive enemy surveillance. The image was captured in June 1918 and marked as 12946 in the records. Note: This image was not intended for publication purposes.

Coast Guardsmen in Action at New Britain. U.S. Coast Guardsmen fight off attacking Japanese planes during the invasion of Cape Gloucester, New Britain. Behind the gun a Coast Guardsman can be seen pointing at a plane overhead. How nearly successful the Japanese were in their attempt to hit the Coast Guard manned LSTs (Landing ship, tanks) can be seen from the bomb splashes.

Coast Guard Combat Cutter Bucks 65-Knot Gale Off Greenland Coast. This image depicts a Coast Guard Combat cutter battling against a 65-knot Gale in the Arctic.

Fog-Shrouded Convoy. This image depicts an a U.S Coast Guard convoy cutter ploughing through a heavy sea.

Ready for Action at Cape Gloucester. A streamlined U.S. tank, ready to go into action, rolls out of a Coast Guard manned LST at Cape Gloucester, New Britain. Overhead Coast Guardsmen watch with interest as the tank crosses the ramp.

While Wounded are Brought. While wounded are brought back to a Coast Guard manned transport, other soldiers aboard the ship are ready to take their turn to join the invaders of Sicily.

The Coast Guard Protects The Convoys. This image depicts a camouflaged U.S. Coast Guard cutter steaming along the fringe of a merchant convoy watching for enemy undersea marauders.

Flag That Went Up!. This image depicts a boarding party from a Coast Guard cutter hoisting the American flag over a captured German ship.

SHIP OF THE Kriegsmarine, Anonymous, 1940 - 1943 photograph Album magazine with a photo of the crew on a small ship of the Kriegsmarine, the moment it passes under a bridge. Part of a small album from the Kriegsmarine in the Netherlands. Netherlands paper. photographic support gelatin silver print occupation ~ war. navy (+ motor ships) Netherlands

"Talking" Off Paestum. A U.S. Coast Guardsman signals to a landing craft whose bow doors yawn empty off Paestum, twenty miles south of Salerno, as the invasion gets under way. This picture shows the open bow doors --- hitherto a closely guarded military secret. The ship has already discharged its cargo of motorized equipment. Coast Guard and Navy personnel man LST craft (Landing Ship, Tanks).

Looking Back on What's Coming. This image depicts Coast Guard-manned invasion barges during training off the East Coast of the United States.

Invasion Regatta. U.S. Coast Guardsmen stage this grim regatta for battle as they train with Army and Marine personnel, somewhere in the South Pacific, for future invasion operations. Coast Guardsmen are manning these landing barges.

Group of women, including Mrs. George Dewey and Mrs. Josephus Daniels, seated on the Mayflower as they watch the review of the Victory Fleet on December 26, 1918. Photograph taken by Lt. Craig. Caption passed by M.I.D. Censor on December 28th, 1918.

Through the Air to the Doctor. Stricken ill on a merchant vessel, a seaman is transferred to a Coast Guard Combat cutter somewhere in the Atlantic to receive medical care. A heavy sea was running, so it was deemed inadvisable to man a small boat.

Historic Traversing of Previously Impassable McClure Strait by U.S. Icebreakers CGC Northland and USS Burton Island (Navy). 12 August 1954 - Men of the Joint U.S. - Canadian Beaufort Sea Expedition erect a mast on pack ice off Cape Prince Alfred, Banks Island, Canadian Northwest Territory, for micro-meteorology study. In the background is the Coast Guard icebreaker Northwind.

Photo collection First World War. With the British Navy in War Time. Training Torpedo Deck tubes in Readiness for Firing. 1914-1918}

The Coast Guard Opens Straits Of Mackinac. This image depicts two Coast guard cutters assisting the "Sainte Marie" in breaking ice at the western end of the straits of Mackinac.

Photograph of Cesar Romero Aboard Coast Guard-manned Transport.

Military exercise..

Photograph of a Group of Men Guiding a U.S. Life Saving Service Vessel Out to Sea at Cape Henry. This image depicts a group of Coast Guardsmen taking a small boat into the sea. The boat is named USLSS Cape Henry.

Coast Guard in Greenland: Greenland Patrol. This image depicts Coast Guard gun crews at their stations.

Lt. George Siegmann of the S.C. takes a photograph of the U.S.S. Firmore. The ship is the first to transport numerous military supplies during World War One, including locomotives, aeroplane parts, trucks, steel rail, osts, hay, and engineer supplies. The photo was taken in Brest, Finistere, France. Base Section No. 5. It has been approved by the American Expeditionary Forces censor.

Invasion of Southern France. This image depicts artwork of a Coast Guard-manned landing barge during the invasion of southern France, painted by Coast Guardsman Tore Asplund.

This photograph, taken by Pvt. Kelly on Feb. 26, 1919, shows a view from the deck of a ship looking towards the bow. The location is London, England. The ship in focus is a German submarine U 155. This image was captured during World War One and is significant in documenting military activities.

Coast Guard Rescues "Wounded" Landing Craft at Saipan. Shattered by Jap mortar fire as it rushed the beach at Saipan, a "wounded" landing craft is towed out of the range by a Coast Guard-manned vessel at the height of the assault upon the shores of the Marianas stronghold. Battle action can be seen on the beach at the right of the towed craft.

Photo collection First World War. With the British Navy in War Time (Clyde and Newcastle). Dockyard Men at Work on the Stern of a Destroyer. 1914-1918}. Clyde, Great Britain, Scotland

Coast Guard Watch never Relaxed. This image depicts life jacketed Coast Guardsmen scanning the open sea from the deck of their Coast Guard anti-submarine patrol vessel.

Image shows Q.M. storehouses during World War I. The photograph was taken by the Signal Corps on March 10, 1921 (as stated by the reco 3-10-1921). This image depicts the buildings used for storing military equipment and supplies. The symbol "ISSUED A" and the notes "MED 39072" are also mentioned.

Over She Goes. A new type all-metal raft is dropped from a Coast Guard cutter during a demonstration of merchant marine life saving equipment.

Sharpening Up for D-Day. American infantrymen, rifles ready, pour down the ramps of a coast guard-mannes LCI(L) as its bow hits the beach in final practice maneuvers for the invasion of Hitler's European Fortress. Repeated drills, such as this, primed the American invaders for the big liberation punch.

Photo collection Government information service. Series Print Anefo RVD Own Without Caption. Collection Photo Collection National Information Service Private, Photo number 156-0394. 1956

On Deck King's Is'd. Unknown maker

American battleship patrolling European waters during World War I.

Looking for Subs. This image depicts two Coast Guardsmen on the lookout for submarines in the ship's crow's nest.

Coast Guard Cadet Learns by Actual Practice. A U.S. Coast Guard cadet sends a message by semaphore from the rigging of a training schooner as he and his fellow future officers learn "from the ground up". The cadets' time is divided between instruction ashore at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut and training aboard practice schooners and cutters at sea.

U.S. Coast Guardsmen.

Captive Balloon Supports "Voice of America" Antenna. This image depicts members of the Coast Guard preparing to inflate the balloon.

American Fighting Power Reduces Iwo Jima. This image depicts a huge armada of Navy and Coast Guard-manned ships crushing close to the shores of the vital stepping stone to the Japanese mainland.

Post on the coast in Durazzo. .

Coast Guard Firefighters. This image depicts a coast guard firefighter operating a hose.

US battleships at sea during World War One. It is a photograph from the collection 'Photographs of American Military Activities during world war one'. The photographer is ECD, and the image was taken in 1919. It is part of the 111-SC series and bears the symbol AU C NOTES 11746.

The Battle Goes On. This image depicts a destroyed patrol vessel at the height of the worst typhoon in Okinawa's history.

Supplies Pour Onto Iwo Jima Beachhead. This image depicts a great flow of invasion supplies to the blackened sands of Iwo Jima, just a few hours after the Marines had wrested their foothold on the vital island.

""Cable Us a Doctor"". A Coast Guard combat Cutter "cables" a doctor to a merchant ship somewhere in the Atlantic in response to an emergency appeal for treatment of a crewman stricken with appendicitis. Pulling alongside the ship, the Coast Guard cutter fires a line across its decks, and a cable is quickly secured. Over the cable in a Bosn's chair goes the medical officer to treat the patient.

Coast Guard Fireboats Battle Norfolk Blaze. This image depicts a Coast Guard Fireboat maneuvering close to fight a stubborn fire that badly damaged pier 3 in the Navy Yard Annex at St. Helena, Berkley, VA.

Medevac of Injured Fisherman from Fishing Vessel ELUSIVE. This image depicts the medevac of injured fisherman from fishing vessel ELUSIVE by a Coast Guard helicopter piloted by Lieutenant Commander Roger Love.

New London Coast Guard Photog "Covers" Okinawa. Coast Guard Combat Photographer Thomas L. Lonergan of 120 Norwood Ave., New London, Conn., meets his first opposition at the ship's rail as he goes over the side with full battle gear and cameras to film action on Okinawa. Coast Guardsman Lonergan, a chief photographer's mate, went ashore from a Coast Guard-manned invasion ship.

Fotocollectie Eerste Wereldoorlog. With the British navy in war time. In a drifter on patrol. The gun in the bows ready for instant action. 1914-1918}

U.S.S. "SAMLAND" passing through locks with twelve casual Army officers aboard, in St. Nasaire, Loire INferieure, France. Photograph taken by Joseph L. Liles on March 1, 1919. The photo was issued on December 20, 1918, and its description is labeled as 44506.

Caption: Pvt. L.H. McLaughlin captured this photograph from a moving boat on 2nd October 1918 at 6:00 PM, showcasing the view of Docks #9 in Bassens, Bordeaux, France. This image is from the collection of American Military Activities during World War One. Officially issued for use and not meant for publication.

""Let's Go Boys, This Is It"". From a Coast Guard-manned landing barge, American troops plunge through the surf and strike the beaches of Leyte Island in the Philippines. It is an early wave of the A-Day assault which struck the Japs with such force that they reeled back from the beaches. A-Day climaxes more than two years of steady advance from the first American Advance into the Solomons.

Photograph of U.s. Troops Waiting to Unload from Their Coast Guard Landing Barge Into the Surf and Onto the Beach of France. It Won't Be Long Now--. Any moment now the ramp will fall. Then these battle-ready Yankee troops will storm from their Coast Guard landing barge into the surf and onto the beach of France. Transferred from a Coast Guard assault transport off shore, they grimly await the fatal orders.

Jeep Goes Ashore at Cape Gloucester. A jeep from a Coast Guard-manned LST (Landing Ship, Tanks) is pushed ashore through the surf at Cape Gloucester, New Britain, by Coast Guardsmen and Marines. Coast Guard and Navy manned LSTs participated in the invasion.

The Busy "Island Hoppers" Manned By Coast Guardsmen for Army in Pacific War. This image depicts Coast Guard-manned Army FS (Freight Supply) Ships gathering at an advance base in New Guinea for a supply delivery assignment among the islands.

Elsevier photo collection. Fighting Rotterdam. Marine Ship Hr.Ms. Van Galen bombed German aircraft. ship sinked own crew. Photo drawing. 10, 1940. Rotterdam, South Holland

"Tiles Square" Traffic Off Eniwetok. Coast Guard-manned landing craft, the sea-going taxicabs and trucks of invasion, crowd the shallow waters off Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshalls, while on the beach piles of supplies to back the invaders pile up.

Captain with binoculars and crew on the deck of a ship, Anonymous, 1860 - 1890 Photograph. visit card This photo is part of an album. photographic support. cardboard albumen print ships (in general). crew ~ ship. seaman (with NAME of rank). binoculars, spy-glass, etc.

On the way, Anonymous, 1947 - 1948 photograph Album magazine with three photos of a colorful evening, men in the dining room and the ship on a quay, on board the ship the S.S. Waterman, en route to the Dutch East Indies. Part of the photo album 'My years in India' with photos about the military actions in the Dutch East Indies. cardboard. photographic support gelatin silver print the company, the unit, the troop ~ military service. recreation ~ the soldier off duty. troop movements, transportation. steamship, motorship

Photographs of General Green approaching Ice. General Greene approaching ice front of glacier at the head of Arsuk Fiord, Greenland.

ARB- Miscellaneous 19-NN-ARB- Miscellaneous-19-NN-274-29 , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

Coast Guard Combat Photographer.

Hermes. Receiving a Mexican Officer.

Troops returning aboard the transport ship Leviathan as it is being maneuvered into its designated slip at Pier 4. The photograph, taken on April 2, 1919, by Lieutenant Lyon, shows the disembarkation of soldiers from the USS Leviathan (SP-1326).

Location: China Date: 1920-1940 china, asia, asiathroughalens

Coast Guard Cutter Sinks Sub. This image depicts the Coast Guard cutter Spencer firing on a German submarine, which it would soon destroy.

Maneuvering for The Attack on Bougainville. Supported by a Navy task force, Coast Guardsmen maneuver landing craft, filled with U.S. Marine Invasion Troops, towards the Japanese-held beach at empress Augusta Bay, on Bougainville Island in the Northern Solomons. The U.S. Amphibious force fought off Japanese Air Attacks to make a successful landing, and establish an allied beachhead on Bougainville.

Communist Cuban Naval PT boat with small boats off Northwest Beach Anguilla Island. Communist Cuban Naval PT boat with small boats off Northwest Beach Anguilla Island.

Coast Guard Cutter Carries a Helicopter. Perched on this Coast Guard cutter is a flight deck and perched on the flight deck is a helicopter. The craft is shown pushing through loose ice off the Atlantic Coast. Helicopters have been tested for air-sea rescue service.

"Cobina's" Ready at Cape Gloucester. U.S. Coast Guard gunners aboard an LST (Landing Ship, Tanks) stand by their gun, dubbed "Cobina", ready to follow the injunction painted on the gun shield to "lean 'em" at the first sign of Japanese activity on the jungle-edged beach at Cape Gloucester, New Britain. Coast Guard and Navy manned LSTs participated in the invasion.

Photo collection Government information service. Some residents have fled to the higher era at Wieringerwerf. These people will only leave the TERP after from the domain office where there are also a few people, have lit a flag. In the domain office, illegally one had a radio .. May 1, 1945. Noord-Holland, Wieringerwerf

Looking toward Newburgh from Battle Monument, Military Academy, West Point, U. S. A.. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1901. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Military training , United States, United States Military Academy, West Point (N.Y.)

Medevac of Injured Fisherman from Fishing Vessel ELUSIVE. This image depicts the medevac of injured fisherman from fishing vessel ELUSIVE by a Coast Guard helicopter piloted by Lieutenant Commander Roger Love.

LSTS Bring in the Invaders; Bring Out the Wounded. Wounded invaders are carried through the surf and up the ramp of a Coast Guard-manned LST during the bitter battle for possession of Wakde Island and its air strip off Dutch New Guinea on May 18. LST 18, manned by a Coast Guard crew, was one of the first to hit the beach after a terrific Navy task force bombardment and the opening assault by LCVPs and LCIs. Wakde Island is about 200 miles west of Hollandia on the north shore of New Guinea.

Fog Signal. This item consists of a photograph of a United States Coast Guardsmen working on a fog signal.

Moving Up at Salerno. U.S. troops are photographed by a Coast Guard combat photographer marching up to join in the attack on the Germans on the Salerno shore. Coast Guard manned landing craft that brought them ashore are visible in the background. As the troops move forward they pass a fellow soldier returning from the battleon a stretcher. Coast Guardsmen manned landing craft and combat photographer.

Invading Italy. U.S. soldiers invading Italy line the rail of a Coast Guard manned combat transport, waiting their turn to clamber down the side into the landing boats that will take them ashore. This picture was taken by a Coast Guard Combat Photographer during the Battle at Paesternum, Just south of Salerno.

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