Thomas P. Ostrom

The United States Coast Guard in World War II

A History of Domestic and Overseas Actions

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9780786442560
• ISBN-10: 0786442565
• Artikelnr.: 25605328

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
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