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Remembering D-Day’s Coast Guard heroes
On June 6, 1944, Allied forces began the largest amphibious invasion of all time on the coast of France at Normandy. D-Day saw 160,000 troops land at Omaha Beach thanks to nearly 200,000 naval and...
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Coast Guard Heroes: Robert J. Yered
This Compass series chronicles the first 14 heroes the Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutters have been named for. These men and women, who stood the watch before us, lived extraordinary lives as they...
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He lived and breathed the Coast Guard
It was the eve of Coast Guard Cutter Robert Yered’s commissioning. The decks were abuzz with anticipation as the crew was just hours away from taking their months of training to the sea. The Coast...
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Coast Guard Heroes: Robert G. Ward
Ward served as coxswain of a landing craft in the first wave, in the landing operations against the enemy on Cotentin Peninsula. Ward successfully landed his troop personnel despite heavy enemy...
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Honor, Respect, Devotion to Duty: Seaman 1st Class Rollin Fritch
The Coast Guard will commission its newest Fast Response Cutter, the Rollin A. Fritch, Nov. 18, 2016, in Cape May, New Jersey. The cutter's namesake was a crewmember aboard the USS Callaway during...
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The Long Blue Line: Tulagi’s coxswains – the service’s 1st Silver Star...
The Navy awarded the Silver Star medal to four U.S. Coast Guard coxswains, Daniel Tarr, William Sparling, Harold Miller and Glen Harris, for landing the first wave of Raiders and delivering vitally...
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