Directory-Index for the
Historian's Office Website
Directory-Index for the
Historian's Office Website
For information on:
[click on the subject]
A daily chronology of Coast Guard history
African-Americans and the Coast Guard
Artifacts--lighthouse lenses, lifeboats, uniforms and more!
Aviation--anything Coast Guard that flies!
Celebrities who served in or are associated with the Coast Guard
Coast Guard Museum at the Coast Guard Academy in New London
Coast Guard people--oral histories, famous Coast Guardsmen, Coast Guard heroes
U. S. Coast Guard Overview: Coast Guard Publication 1Combat: The Coast Guard's combat history
Cutters & Craft--anything Coast Guard that floats!
D-Day: The Coast Guard at Normandy
Deep Freeze operations and other "polar" activities
Documents, regulations and other primary sources on Coast Guard history
Drugs: The Coast Guard's efforts to stop drug smuggling
Environment: The Coast Guard's role in protecting the environment
Fisheries conservation & enforcement
Immigration: The Coast Guard's role in preventing illegal immigration into the U.S.
Law enforcement, fisheries, narcotic and migrant interdiction
Life-Saving Service, stations, keepers, surfmen and Gold Medal lifesaving rescues!
Lighthouses, Lightkeepers, and the Lighthouse Service (anything to do with lighthouses!)
Logbooks -- cutters & lifeboat stations
Logbooks -- lighthouse stations
Maritime disasters: shipwrecks, floods & hurricanes
Maritime Safety, navigation, passenger vessels
Master Chief Petty Officers of the Coast Guard
Minorities and the Coast Guard
Museums with Coast Guard exhibits (Other than the Coast Guard Museum at New London)
Narcotic interdiction: The Coast Guard's efforts to stop drug smuggling
Normandy: D-Day and the Coast Guard
Oil spills--the Coast Guard and the environment
Painting of cutters, tenders, lightships, and aircraft
Plans -- cutters, lighthouses & stations
Researching Coast Guard history?
Revenue Cutter Service/Revenue Marine/System of Cutters
St. Louis: The Coast Guard's Role in the Voyage of the Damned.
Small Boat & Life-Saving Stations
SPARS: Women's Reserve in World War II
Stripe/Slash (the Coast Guard's unique red "slash")
Wars (The Coast Guard's role in the Nation's conflicts)
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