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Coast Guard Personnel

Including Heroes, Women, Minorities & Famous Coast Guardsmen

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General Overviews:

• Coast Guard Personnel: A Historical Bibliography: 

• How to find records for anyone who has served in the Coast Guard or its predecessors, obtain a list of a cutter's or station's crew or find out about a lighthouse keeper?

• Who was the first Coast Guardsman to. . .?   Coast Guard Firsts, Lasts & Record-Setting Achievements.

• Coast Guard Heroes  

• Coast Guard, Lighthouse Service, Revenue Marine & Cutter Service Uniforms: Regulations, History and Photographs.

• Biographies of Famous Coast Guardsmen

• Women in the Coast Guard

• Minorities in the Coast Guard

• Civilians in the Coast Guard

• Famous Quotations

• Coast Guard Heroes at Normandy, D-Day, 6 June 1944

• Celebrities who served in or were associated with the Coast Guard

• Mascots: Members of the animal kingdom that served in the Coast Guard

• Oral Histories and Memoirs of Coast Guard personnel; how to conduct an oral history interview or how to write your sea service memoir!

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Casualties:

• A list of Coast Guard and Life-Saving Service small boat personnel killed in the line of duty

• A list of Coast Guard aviators that were killed in the line of duty

• United States Coast Guard Roll of Honor, April 6, 1917 - - November 30, 1918 (list of officers and men who were killed or otherwise perished and those decorated during World War I--a supplement to the Report of the Secretary of the Navy, 1919)

• A list of Coast Guardsmen killed in action in Vietnam

• Coast Guard Memorials

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Medals & Awards:

• Coast Guardsmen who were awarded the Coast Guard Medal

• Life-Saving Service, Lighthouse Service, Revenue Cutter Service & Coast Guard Personnel who were awarded the Gold Life-Saving Medal  

• Coast Guardsmen decorated for heroism during World War I

• Coast Guardsmen decorated for heroism during World War II

• Coast Guardsmen who were awarded the Silver Star during the Vietnam War

• A History of the Ancient Albatross Award

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Leaders:

• A list of the Commandants of the Coast Guard, their biographies, and photographs

• A list of Vice Commandants of the Coast Guard

• A list of Master Chief Petty Officers of the Coast Guard, their biographies, and photographs

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Uniforms:

• Uniforms of the U.S. Lighthouse Service

• Uniforms of the U.S. Life-Saving Service

• Uniforms of the U.S. Revenue Marine & Revenue Cutter Service

• Uniforms of the U.S. Coast Guard 

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Recruiting:

• 1942 Recruiting Handbook

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Misc:

• 1884: List of the Persons Who Have Served as Members of the Light-House Board and as Inspectors and Engineers of the Several Light-House Districts. (Appendix No. 2, 1884 Annual Report of the Light-House Board.)

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The Lighthouse Service crew of an unidentified lighthouse tender, circa 1900.

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