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Pollywogs go through an line crossing initiation ceremony aboard a United States Coast Guard liner in the Atlantic Ocaean.

An shellback initiation ceremony aboard a United Stated Coast Guard liner in the Atlantic Ocean. Coast guard personnel on the deck of the ship. The sailors in trunks. The beginning of the initiation rites by experienced sailors. The sailors who are crossing the equator line the first time, go through the ceremony. One sailor is seated in a chair on a platform on the deck. Several sailors around the platform. Water is splashed on the sailors with a hose. A sailor dressed as a woman. The sailor is toppled into a pool of water by two other sailors. Few sailors dressed in different costumes sit on the deck. A high ranking seamen, dressed as King Neptune accompanied by his wife Queen Amphitrite, and the Court officiates the initiation ceremony. The coast guards lined up. The sailors portraying King Neptune and Queen Amphitrite walk past them and go on to the platform. The pollywogs, sailors who are crossing the equator first time, are locked in pillories.

Date: 1926
Duration: 3 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054652
United States Coast Guard patrol boat chases smuggling vessels in Atlantic Ocean.

Role of United States Coast Guards. A United States Coast Guard patrol boat underway in the Atlantic Ocean. It chases a rum runner on a smuggling boat. Men fire a one pounder at the boat. Coast Guards aboard a smuggling vessel.

Date: 1935
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049564
A Coast Guard cutter underway in very heavy seas. Religious Services aboard Coast Guard Cutter Cayuga. Crew mans lifeboat

U.S. Coast Guard activities in the Atlantic Ocean. A Coast Guard cutter underway in heavy seas. Turbulent waters.The U.S. flag and Red Cross flag hoisted on U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Cayuga.Officers and crew seated on deck under awning. Officers and Petty Officers are dressed in blue and sailors in white.A clergyman conducts religious services and leads in the singing of a hymn. A cross in front of the seating area. A few persons sit on one side of the deck. Coast Guardsmen in lifevests enter a lifeboat on davit.The lifeboat lowers away, and the crew disconnect lowering blocks and lines, and proceed to row away from the cutter.

Date: 1934
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054662
Two German U boats surrender to Americans off the coast of the United States in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II.

Nazi German U boats surrender in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the United States near the end of World War 2. A German U boat U-858 underway in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape May, New Jersey, as it prepares to surrender to U.S. forces. A barrage balloon in flight. U.S. Navy escort vessels pull along side the submarine. Aircraft in flight. U.S. officers man the U boat and search for weapons aboard the submarine. German crew of the U boat lined up. Off the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire another German U boat being taken over by the American crew. A U.S. sailor aboard a ship signals a blinker light. The U boat crew surrenders and disembarks. The crew being taken as prisoners to be taken to a Prisoner of War camp.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059302
United States Coast Guard preparing for the Allied invasion of Normandy (WW2)

June 9, 1944. Sand flats seen at low tide in Normandy, France. Allied forces fighting their way inland during the Normandy invasion (Three days after D-Day) in World War II. Landing craft and destroyed buildings on the beaches of Normandy. German steel beach obstacles have been stacked out of the way. A United States Sherman DD tank sunk in sand. Badly damaged LCT-25 on the beach at Normandy, with her cargo of half-tracks still aboard and remains of the first one off, sitting at her ramp where it was hit by a German shell. Higgins Boat riddled with bullet holes. Scene shifts to January 1944 when United States Army troops descend from a troop transport ship into LCT-504 for practice maneuvers in the Chesapeake Bay. A soldier operates a Higgins Boat. Another soldier directs a Higgins Boat to the shore. Troops hit the beach in Higgins Boats driven by U.S. Coast Guardsmen from the Attack Transport ship, USS Samuel Chase (APA-26). United States troops carry equipment or belongings as they board ships to England in February 1944. Views of live aboard transport ships in convoys crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Coast Guardsmen near weapons at duty stations. Some troops are seen wearing life vests on board. Troops sleep or lie in hammocks in their quarters. Soldiers pass the time by playing cards, sleeping, reading and writing letters, and mending clothes on deck. Troops line the deck of the transport ship, USS Bayfield (APA-33), as the ship approaches port in England. Landing craft from the Bayfield, carrying troops, are seen in assault training exercises in England. Troops wading ashore during training. Coast Guard officers and sailors are seen aboard larger landing ships in exercises. Coast Guard officer smoking a cigar, as landing craft from the USS Samuel Chase speeds away after landing troops ashore. Trucks drive ashore from landing craft. Scene shifts to May 1944 and a formation of Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber aircraft dropping bombs on enemy targets in Normandy. Aerial view shows bombs falling.

Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065477
U.S. Atlantic Command mobilizes to the Atlantic coast of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October, 1962.

Events held in the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October, 1962 when the United States and the Soviet Union confronted each other with nuclear destruction. U.S. Army Strategic Army Corps (STRAC) is assigned to U.S. Forces, Atlantic Command. U.S. troops take part in various military exercises. A U.S. Air Force aircraft takes off from an airstrip. U.S. 1st Armored Division tanks rolling. The U.S. Army starts to mobilize. Troops travel by trains and jeeps.

Date: 1962, October
Duration: 2 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070168