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Sept. 16, 2022
The Long Blue Line: LT Crotty and the Battle for Corregidor
Sep. 16 we remember all POWs, here is the story of the Coast Guard's first POW since the War of 1812
Oct. 15, 2021
The Long Blue Line: Pacific War veteran Sy Siegel, 101 years strong and still Semper Paratus!
Sy Siegel is one of many distinguished combat veterans of the long blue line.
Sept. 2, 2021
The Long Blue Line: “Hot Rocks”—a Coast Guardsman on the beach at Iwo Jima
[This essay was excerpted from the book chapter of the same name: “Hot Rocks,” Sea, Surf and Hell: The U.S. Coast Guard in World War II (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1945), 276-79.]Because of the concentrated mortar fire, which the Japanese are laying down on this landing area, it is one of the bloodiest of all the assault beaches in the Pacific War to
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.
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