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April 9, 2021
The Long Blue Line: Coast Guard Combat Operations in World War I
World War I served as a baptism of fire for the Coast Guard. During the war, the Coast Guard performed its traditional missions of search and rescue, maritime interdiction, law enforcement, humanitarian response, and port security.
April 1, 2021
The Long Blue Line: Standing a deadly watch 75 years ago—final hours of Scotch Cap Lighthouse
Chief Sanford broadcast stating “we had been struck by a tidal wave and might have to abandon the station, and that I believed Scotch Cap Lightstation was lost.” He worried that his transmissions might be taken as an April Fool’s joke.
March 26, 2021
The Long Blue Line: Barbara Mabrity—Long-time Lighthouse Keeper and Hurricane Heroine
Barbara Mabrity, or someone from her family, kept the Key West Light for 82 of its 89 years of manned operation. And, for most of the Mabrity years, a female family member oversaw operation of the light.
The Long Blue Line: The Coast Guard in Vietnam-a remembrance
Fifty-five years after the Coast Guard joined the fight in Vietnam, we commemorate those servicemembers who went in harm’s way, several of whom paid with their lives in a land far from home.
March 19, 2021
The Long Blue Line: Cleveland hero, FRC namesake, double Gold Lifesaving Medal recipient Frederick Hatch, Part II.
His story begins on a dark and stormy night, with harbor tugs losing control of a lumber-laden schooner with civilians aboard.
March 18, 2021
The Long Blue Line: Cleveland hero, cutter namesake, double Gold Lifesaving Medal recipient Frederick Hatch
Part I. His Gold Medal as Surfman
March 12, 2021
The Long Blue Line: In their words: A busy year for the SPARS that operated LORAN Station Unit 21 in 1944
Hear from the women who ran Unit 21 during World War II.
March 8, 2021
The Long Blue Line: Over 230 years of women in the Coast Guard—America’s diversity trailblazers!
Celebrating International Women's Day, here is a historical overview of women in the Coast Guard.
March 5, 2021
The Long Blue Line: Japanese “Good Luck” Flag captured in the Battle of Eniwetok
Most Good Luck Flags date from before or during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II from 1937 to 1945.
Feb. 26, 2021
The Long Blue Line: Coast Guard's Fifth District—Home of Founders, Firsts and Flight for over 230 years!
Coast Guard men, women and assets associated with the Fifth District began playing a vital role in Coast Guard history the year the Constitution was signed.