Author: Thomas P. Ostrom
Publisher: Elderberry Press
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781932762150
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A former officer traces the history of the United States Coast Guard from itsorigin in 1790 to the present.
Author: Thomas P. Ostrom
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-03-19
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 078649526X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The history of the U.S. Coast Guard and its predecessor agencies dates from 1790, with missions in both domestic and international waters. The service has provided aids to navigation, enforcement of maritime laws, environmental protection, search and rescue, immigration and narcotics interdiction, maritime safety assistance, port security, natural disaster response and national defense missions, including overseas with other U.S. armed forces and federal and state public safety agencies. The Service has operated under the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Transportation and, since 2003, the Department of Homeland Security. Its maritime mission regions have included Arctic and Antarctic waters, inland and coastal U.S. waterways and the seas and oceans of the world. This history describes how the Coast Guard has manifested its legacy and motto, Semper Paratus (Always Ready), in changing conditions under each of its leaders.
Author: Donald L. Canney
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →More than 1,000 vessels are included in this the first complete and systematic listing of U.S. Revenue Service and Coast Guard vessels through 1935.
Author: Thomas P. Ostrom
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2011-10-14
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 0786488557
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In addition to port security, ship inspection and safety, law enforcement, and search and rescue, the U.S. Coast Guard assumes an important role in national defense at home and abroad. To that end, the Coast Guard has carried out separate and coordinated missions with other armed forces from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, Mediterranean, Persian Gulf, and North Polar region. This chronicle of the Coast Guard's contributions to national defense examines participation in World War I, World War II, Korea, the Cold War, Vietnam, and the War on Terror. Among the topics explored are defense threats, drug trafficking, and border security, as well as Coast Guard personnel, training, leadership, and assets.
Author: C D Kroll
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2010-10-15
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1612518761
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →More a book about Coast Guard heritage than an academic history, this book focuses on a variety of relatively unknown Guardsmen who personify the service’s core values. The author highlights contributions of a variety of individuals, from seamen to admirals on active duty, as well as reservists, auxiliarists, and civilian members of Team Coast Guard. These heroes, representing a great diversity in age, sex, race, and ethnicity, set an example worthy of emulation and serve as role models for today’s Coast Guard men and women.
Author: Dennis Noble
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Published: 2004-07-06
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9780836856811
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents the history of the United States Coast Guard from 1790 to the present day and discusses the Coast Guard's peacetime duties as well as contributions during wartime.
Author: Thomas P. Ostrom
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2018-01-13
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1476630755
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Covering the history of the U.S. Coast Guard from 1790--when it was called the U.S. Revenue Marine--through World War I, this book describes the service's national defense missions, including actions during the War of 1812, clashes with pirates, slave ships and Seminole Indians, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War. During World War I the USCG supported U.S. Navy operations across the Atlantic, escorted merchant convoys and engaged in anti-submarine warfare. Original maps are included.
Author: Robert Erwin Johnson
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Recounts the founding of the U.S. Coast Guard, looks at Coast Guard operations and functions, and looks at how it has changed over the last seventy years.