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July 19, 2024
Lessons learned from 2017’s Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico
Eyewitness accounts to the catastrophic Hurricane Maria, revealing the commitment to service, devotion to duty and willingness to make sacrifices that characterize the Coast Guard and the Coast Guard community.
July 12, 2024
The service’s first drug seizure at sea? The mostly mistaken case of the George E Starr
The story of the service’s first drug interdiction case (1891) and how it was misrepresented in the history books.
July 5, 2024
The last flight of Coast Guard Aviator #3
USCG aviator #3 Charles Thrun, the first enlisted aviator in the Coast Guard.
June 28, 2024
Coxswain for all invasions — Robert Ward and the Joseph T. Dickman at D-Day
The story of D-Day hero, Silver Star Medal recipient and FRC namesake Robert Ward.
June 14, 2024
D-Day hero Jack DeNunzio and LCI-94 at Normandy
Jack DeNunzio’s final breath would be forever recorded for posterity by a Coast Guard photographer and a world-renowned Life Magazine combat photographer.
June 7, 2024
Into the Jaws of Death — Coast Guard landing craft at D-Day
Story and images of CPO Robert Sargent, “Into the Jaws of Death” photographer.
May 31, 2024
“Love your Freedom, because that’s what we fought for” — D-Day Gunner’s Mate Frank DeVita
“There’s a cemetery right above Omaha Beach with 9,400 dead GIs. I go there every year and I cry, and I cry. They made the biggest sacrifice. They gave their lives so that we have freedom today.” - Frank DeVita
May 17, 2024
Bear Hunt — the search for Healy’s legendary cutter
Finding a shipwreck is like solving any mystery.
May 10, 2024
Devotion to Duty — Asian nationals serving in the Coast Guard
Asian nationals began serving in the United States Coast Guard 175 years ago, playing an important role in the history of the Coast Guard’s ancestor agency of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service.
April 26, 2024
Sentinels of the past — the Coast Guard’s Civil War Boat Howitzers from the Revenue Cutter Service
Written by retired Gunner CWO Steven Wilson, this essay provides the history of two Coast Guard Civil War artifacts: Boat Howitzers #245 and #246.