ON FOREIGN SHORES Part 4

Description

On overseas activities of the Coast Guard in World War II. Includes views of the amphibious invasions of Guadalcanal, North Africa, Anzio, Tarawa, Saipan, Luzon, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Normandy, and South France. Cutters shoot down an airplane, patrol a Persian port, deliver supplies and men to Greenland, release depth charges, and sink a German boat. Coast Guardsmen place buoys in a port, load supplies on B-24 plane, load wounded Marines aboard transports off Tarawa, and rescue sailors of ships sunk by Japanese suicide planes off Okinawa. Shows the cutters Northwind and Hamilton and the transports Hunter, Leggett, Dickman, Wood, Chase, Middleton, and Bayfield. Adm. Waesche decorates Coast Guardsmen.

Collection

Records of the U.S. Coast Guard

Series

Moving Images Relating to Coast Guard Activities