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The Day That
Lasted A Lifetime
by CDR Edward Seebald, USCG, DIRAUX
(1SR)
New York City -- September 11, 2001,
Navigator, Fall 2001
[RE: 9/11/2001 memoir of Commander
Seebald, director of Auxiliary, whose Auxiliary staff and active duty
personnel were at work in the Coast Guard building, located approximately
one mile south of the
World
Trade
Center when the
terrorist attack occurred. Seebald was the senior officer in charge at
the building. Also see
photo galleries.]
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Bravo Zero: The Coast Guard Auxiliary in World War II
by C. Kay Larson,
DVC-AH
[RE: History of the Auxiliary's
founding in 1939, its prewar and wartime duties that included: inshore and
beach patrols; port security; antisubmarine warfare; rescue of torpedoed
merchant mariners; disaster relief; and ancillary activities.
Auxiliary members formed the nucleus of the Coast Guard's volunteer
temporary Reserve membership. Also see
photo galleries.]
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McArthur's Navy
by C.
Kay Larson, DVC-AH
[RE: During World War II, scores
of Auxiliarists enrolled as civilian contract mariners in the Army
Transportation Corps, Small Ships Branch. Many including former Auxiliarist
Ed Dennis saw duty in
New Guinea. Also see
photo galleries.]
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NASA Ops
by Louise Agee,
FSO-PB 7-46
[RE: A memoir of a member serving
as crew on a security patrol during a night-time National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA) Apollo rocket launch in 1973.]
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Mean High Water
by James "Mack"
Price
[RE: Article by James "Mack"
Price, Plaque of Merit awardee, describing the night in October 1994 during
which he and his crew rescued residents from flood waters in
Houston,
Texas.]
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Teamwork Case:
fire, tanker Juniper
Case: fire, tanker
Jupiter
by CWO Dan
Waldschmidt, USCG
[RE: Article by Coast Guard Public
Affairs Officer CWO Waldschmidt relating rescue of mariners from burning
gasoline tanker in
Bay City,
Michigan in 1990. The
search and rescue operation involved both a Coast Guard utility boat crew
and Coast Guard Auxiliary members, Robert and Jean Colby, Gold Lifesaving
Medalists. Also see
photo galleries.]
