Overseas activities of United States Coast Guard in World War II. U.S. Landing Craft Infantry,LCI(L) 617,part of LCI Flotilla 22 in World War 2. She is seen underway in rough waters of the Pacific ocean during 1945.Coast Guardsman ordered to Battle stations. A Coast Guardsman observes approaching enemy aircraft through binoculars. Coast guard gunner fires Antiaircraft guns using foot trigger. Enemy plane crashes in ocean. A Coast Guardsman signals using semaphore flags. Beachhead supply operations. Coast Guard Picket Boat, CG-42022, seen patrolling around U.S. transport ships in a Persian port, while they carry lend lease supplies to the Soviet Union.Coast Guard combat patrol in jungle using canines. The Cactus (A) Class 180 foot buoy tender, USCGC Tupelo placing a buoy at sea. Releasing a weather balloon. A Coast Guard wooden 83 foot cutter ("83 footer"). Loading a Coast Guard B-24 aircraft on Guam. The plane takes off. Invasion task force of U.S. warships underway. Coast Guard crews at various duty stations aboard their ships during the war.. The former luxury liner, SS Manhattan,underway, her decks crowded with troops, following her conversion into the U.S. Coast Guard-manned USS Wakefield (AP-21). U.S. Navy attack transport,USS Arthur Middleton (APA-25) at sea in the Pacific. Coast Guard operating transport ships unloading cargo for Allied invasion forces and running inter-island shipping service in the Pacific, during World War II.Landing Ship Tank (LST-788) arriving at the beach next to Landing Ship Medium, LSM-242, on Iwo Jima. A Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT) being driven off LST-760. USS LCI(L)-87, Flagship of LCI Flotilla 10. Her Captain, M. E. Imlay, USCG, is seen on her bridge, before departing from England for the Normandy invasion. U.S. Landing Craft Infantry, LCI(L)-668 at beach and troops wading ashore.
Pilot Reg Robbins and mechanic James Kelly start 172 hour flight in Fort Worth, Texas. They set a new endurance flight record. Monoplane 'Fort Worth' takes off. Ryan Brougham monoplane named 'Fort Worth' in flight. Fort Worth monoplane refueled by another aircraft during flight. The plane lands and taxis. Crowd runs out to aircraft. Pilot Robbins and James Kelly with their wives at the Fort Worth air port. The crowd greets them. Pilot Robbins and James Kelly wear garlands.
Pilot Reg Robbins and James Kelly set a new endurance flight record in Fort Worth, Texas. Reg Robbins and James Kelly at Fort Worth air port. Ryan Brougham monoplane christened 'Fort Worth'. Reg Robbins bids goodbye to his wife and son. Fort Worth monoplane in flight. Fort Worth monoplane refueled by another aircraft during flight.
USS Pollux (AKS-4) underway in Gulf of Tonkin near Yankee Station. Bow of USS Constellation (CVA-64). Many aircraft on the flight deck. USS Pollux approached on the port side by USS Constellation. Aircraft parked on flight deck. Men in red shirt on deck. Line gun in the aiming position. Stern of USS Pollux with stores on deck for unrep operation (underway replenishment). Men move on the deck. Signal paddle man keeps his paddle in circular motion. Wire passes through a steel sheave attached overhead on board USS Constellation. Stores come over on high line. Men on deck edge elevator. Cargo net of stores lowered. Men pull the cargo net back. The stores moved into the hangar bay. Cargo net of stores leaves Pollux by high line. Men handle the supplies.
Missile loading tests on the port battery aboard USS Constellation (CVA-64) at Yankee Station, off Vietnam, in the South China Sea, during Vietnam War. Terrier missile on the launcher. Launcher swings around to attack position. Forward section of missile. Missile ready for launch. Blast doors open on the missile house. Terrier missile slides back. Practice missile comes out onto the rail, blast door closes and launcher swings around. Terrier missile slides back in the missile house. Missile launch arm in view. Terrier missile slides on the launcher. Launcher swings around.
Air operations aboard USS Constellation (CVA-64) at Yankee Station, Vietnam. U.S. cargo aircraft C-2A comes in over the flight deck for landing. C-2A makes a touch-and-go landing. C-2A aircraft in flight. Men wearing green shirt in the foreground. Men on catwalk and on the port edge of the flight deck.
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