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NEW YORK, New York (Sept. 15)--The World Trade Center complex continues to burn, while the Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma controls vessel traffic in New York harbor September 15. USCG photo by PAC Brandon Brewer

July 3, 2025

The Long Blue Line: 9/11—A Day that changed the Coast Guard forever

The service's response to the 2001 terrorist attack demonstrated the Coast Guard's flexibility, readiness, and relevance in one of the greatest transformations in Coast Guard history.

Coast Guard Cutter Vance WDE 487 working with a Sangley Point PBM-5G.

June 25, 2025

Commemorating Korean War 75th Anniversary

PBM-G5 #84738’s deadly water rescue.

An April 2010 photograph of the Deepwater Horizon offshore oilrig after the explosion that set it on fire and caused its record-breaking oil spill. (U.S. Coast Guard)

June 20, 2025

15th anniversary of Deepwater Horizon and the Coast Guard’s spill response mission

"Even Exxon Valdez pales in comparison to the volume, scale, number of Coast Guard resources, how much time has been devoted to [Deepwater Horizon]—all far exceed any previous event." — CAPT Duke Walker, Federal On-Scene Coordinator, U.S. Coast Guard, 2012

U.S. Navy, Coast Guard personnel posing with some of the captured gear left behind by the Nazi saboteurs. (Franklin Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY)

June 13, 2025

Bags of clams? Not likely. Here’s how a Coast Guard Seaman Recruit altered the course of World War II

Jack Cullen, 21, thwarted a Nazi plan to sabotage America’s shoreside infrastructure.

The fog of war on D-Day as Allied landing craft put ashore troops on the Normandy beaches. (U.S. Coast Guard)

June 6, 2025

Eddy Priestly and D-Day’s Saviors

Over the course of the Normandy invasion, Flotilla One’s cutters saved 1,438 men.

The Galveston waterfront was devastated by the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900. (Library of Congress)

May 30, 2025

Death, destruction at Galveston Lifesaving Station

Hurricane season is fast approaching (June 1st). Today we take a look back at one of the deadliest hurricanes in U.S. history, the 1900 Galveston Hurricane.

Lone survivor of the 52-foot Triumph, Gordon Huggins attends an anniversary memorial service in 2018. (U.S. Coast Guard)

May 23, 2025

Reflecting on the 1961 Triumph-Mermaid tragedy

“There was no sign of anybody inside. I just hung on and prayed as the ship filled with water.”

Albatross 2125 before adoption of the Coast Guard “Racing Stripe” on all fixed-wing aircraft.

May 16, 2025

Into the eye of a storm on the wings of an Albatross

The heroic rescue of the Dell G fishing vessel crew during Hurricane Laurie.

Official headshot of Charles William Sexton in dress blues. (U.S. Coast Guard) A 44-foot motor lifeboat powering through heavy breakers common to the West Coast. (U.S. Coast Guard)

May 9, 2025

Hero MK1 Charles Sexton

“Keep bright his memory so that next time someone asks who are your heroes, you won’t hesitate to answer Petty Officer Sexton.” - Rear Adm. Joseph Vorbach

Arcturus flying in formation with other USCG flying boats above a 165-foot cutter. (Coast Guard Collection)

May 2, 2025

Arcturus: A distinguished amphibian in the history of Coast Guard aviation

Read about the first aviation rescue to receive the Gold Lifesaving Medal and the Coast Guard’s Flying Lifeboats; state-of-the-art aircraft capable of performing rescues by landing on the open sea.

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