#uscg

[victusinveritas]

A bit of #Caturday history: Salty, mascot of the San Diego Coast Guard Air Station. In 1945, she was the first cat to participate in an air rescue mission when she and her kitten stowed away on a plane just before it took off to rescue a pilot who had gone down at sea.

#cats #caturday #wwii #coast guard #uscg #air rescue

[nocternalrandomness]

USCG HC-130H from Air Station Barbers Point, Oahu in the air near Honolulu, Hawaii

#USCG #Coast Guard #Lockheed #HC-130 #Hercules #Cargo plane #Transport #Search and Rescue aircraft #flying #Military #aviation #Hawaii

[rockyp77mk3]

US Coast Guard Hall PH-3 flying boat firing a M1919 Browning machine gun in 1943. That nose gun position seems a bit breezy.

#history #aviation #wwii #USCG

[marinesfromaroundtheworld]

Marines with a sign thanking the Coast Guard for their help with the Invasion of Guam.

#my post #marines #marine corps #usmc #marine #military #usa #united states marine corps #unifrom #us marines #uscg #wwii #guam

[todaysdocument]

A Coast Guard combat cutter protects a convoy of merchant vessels carrying war supplies to Europe. Oil painting by USCG combat artist Hunter Wood, August 25, 1943. 

Record Group 26: Records of the U.S. Coast Guard

Series: Photographs of Activities, Facilities, and Personalities

File Unit: Art by Wood through Miscellaneous, Including Ships

Image description: Black-and-white image of an oil painting depicting a Coast Guard cutter in a heaving sea. Barely visible in the background mist is a large merchant vessel. 

#archivesgov #August 25 #1943 #1940s #World War II #WWII #military #U.S. Coast Guard #USCG #ocean

[bigglesworld]

Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3. Training AC. 816 built between 1935-42. At Floyd Bennett Field, NY, 1943

#Naval Aircraft Factory #N3N #training aircraft #military aircraft #USCG #WWII #biplane #Bennett Field

[therobogoose]

Commander Cinderace retires early from the coast guard to pursue important new adventures with his wife, Dr. Inteleon.

#cinderace #inteleon #pokemon #coast guard #galar #uscg #united states coast guard

[prohibitionpirates]

United States Coast Guard Cutter Porter (CG-7) circa 1924-30. This was formerly the U.S. Navy Tucker-class destroyer USS Porter (DD-59), one of 25 ex-Navy destroyers turned over to the Coast Guard in 1924 to enforce Prohibition and battle rumrunners. During her Coast Guard service, Porter captured the rum-running vessel Conseulo II (the former Louise) off the coast of Long Island. The destroyer was returned to the Navy in 1933 but scrapped in 1934 without being recommissioned.

#1920s #prohibition #uss porter #uscgc porter #coast guard cutter #uscg #rum patrol #Tucker class destroyer #1925 #1927 #1926 #1928 #1929 #1930 #1931 #1932 #1933 #destroyer #USS Porter (DD-59) #USCGC Porter (CG-7)

[american-denim-parano]

#USCG #california #vintage #i love you #vintage denim #just women #vintageshirt #los angeles #denim #vintagesweats #vintagesweatshirt #coastguard

[keywestwildlifecenter]

Thanks to United States Coast Guard Sector Key West for making the rescue of this Laughing Gull with impact related trauma and delivering the Gull to our clinic for treatment after rescue!

#uscg

[fantastictyphoonpeanut]

Salute The Brave: Signalman 1st Class Douglas Munro MOH. USCG. Guadalcanal, 27 Sep 1942. In charge of a group of Higgins boats, engaged in the evacuation of 500 Marines trapped by enemy forces at Point Cruz, with five craft at the beach, he drew the enemy’s fire by placing his boat as a shield at the beachhead. Munro was killed in the process. Canadian by birth to Anglo-American parents he is the only 'Coastie' to have been awarded the Medal of Honor.

Note the old Lewis Guns. (FTP).

#uscg #us coast guard #us military

[railwayhistorical]

USCGC Buckthorn

A coast guard vessel has been parked in Traverse City, Michigan: on the West Arm of Grand Traverse Bay.

Here is some information on the ship: "The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter BUCKTHORN (WLI-642) is a 100' Inland Buoy Tender and is the oldest cutter on the Great Lakes." (source)

One image by Richard Koenig; taken June 27th 2023.

#uscg #coastguard #coastguardcutter #grandtraversebay #grandtraversebaywestarm #traversecitymichigan #traversecity

[nocternalrandomness]

Juneau International Airport, Alaska

#USCG #Lockheed #C-130 #Hercules #Cargo plane #Military transport #Aviation #airport #Juneau International Airport #JNU #Coast Guard #airplanes

[dutchmn007]

Ferry Duty, Torching Clubs, & Privilege of 2nd Mech

#youtube #veteran #veterans #american legion #us navy #usnavy #military #education #educate yourself #educate yourselves #usaf #usarmy #us army #usmc #marine #uscg #aviation #sea #seaplane #bomber #b 17 flying fortress #naval #naval aviation #naval aviator #aviator #flying

[marinesfromaroundtheworld]

#my post #marines #marine corps #usmc #marine #military #usa #usn #usaf #uscg #ussf #navy #army #air force #coast guard #space force #meme

[todaysdocument]

“Pistol Practice,” by USCG artist Vestal, September 8, 1943.

Record Group 26: Records of the U.S. Coast Guard

Series: Photographs of Activities, Facilities, and Personalities

File Unit: Art by Vestal through Wood

Image description: Cartoons accompany each line of text, which read: Gawsh! A real gun and real bullets! / Dry fire - this is going to be a pushover, nothing to it! / .38, small stuff. No sense crampin’ my hand squeezin’ so tight - awk! / They told him to hold his arm steady and squeeze but they didn’t tell him how to keep the target steady. / Too unsteady at arms length. Trys gun a little closer. Result . . . bunker blacked out. / The cowboy movie addict who doesn’t realize he’s not in the wide open spaces. / Can’t figure how with ten rounds there are twenty holes in the target. / Then there’s the guy who forgot and turned around on the firing line, a loaded pistol in his hand. / The lad who shoots with his eyes closed because he’s afraid of guns and probably wouldn’t hit the target anyway. 

#archivesgov #1943 #1940s #World War II #WWII #Coast Guard #U.S. Coast Guard #USCG #firearms #gun #pistol #firing range #practice #September 8