United States Coast Guard History

• A Star Is Born 1931- Article by Capt George Krietemeyer, USCG (Ret) and Capt Ray Copin, USCG (Ret) about the advent of the Douglas Dolphin into the CG inventory.
• A Short History Of Operations At Biloxi 1934-History of the Coast Guard Air Station at Biloxi, MS.
• Instructions For Painting USCG Aircraft 1936
• Edge of Alaska 1936-Story of the Alaskan Adventures of LCDR CLarence F. Edge
• Aviation Instructions 1936
• Waco J2W-1 & El Paso Detachment 1937
• St. Petersburg Hall Boat Seaplane Lost 1938-Huge Seaplane Lost In 1,004 Feet Of Water
• A Tragic Good Friday: A U.S. Coast Guard PBY-5A amphibian. In a sister aircraft, number 48429, pilots Bilderback and Natwig landed in rough ocean waters to rescue sixteen survivors of a DC-6 which had crashed off San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Good Friday, April 11, 1952.
• Biscayne Bay Professionalism

• Some Recollections Of Early Coast Guard Aviation by Capt. William P. Wishar USCG (Ret)
• Northwest Flight 292 Rescue - July 14, 1960
• I Learned To Fly the Helicopter by LTJG Sam A. Constantion, July 1944
• Minimum and Maximum: The Story Of The First Wilderness Helicopter Rescue 1945
• Operation Tight Reign: The Story Of The Strategic Loran C CHain In Southeast Asia 1965-1966
• WWII Attack On Port Angeles, Washington 1942
• The Story Of Coast Guard Aviation
• Rescue In Newfoundland: Sabena Airlines Crash 1946

• "Russian Medevac"
• Scared Out Of My.....Wits? by CDR John Butler USCG (Ret)
• The Day I Was Ten Feet Tall by Warrant Gunner R. J. O'Leary USCG (Ret) 1946
• The Norther 1969
• The Future Of Coast Guard Aviation by Capt. William J. Kossler USCG
• Vertical World 1968-The Total Training Program: How the Coast Guard prepares pilots for anything from basic maneuvers to blind night flying over smooth water.
• A Coast Guard Aviator in WWII: The Oral History of LCDR W. E. Prindle, Jr., USCGR CG Aviator # 144, CG Helicopter Pilot # 24
• WOLFPACK AND SUNDAY COMICS:The Birth of Anti-Submarine Warfare - A first hand account tells of the early days of helicopter ASW.By Stewart Ross GrahamCommander, U.S. Coast Guard
• You Have To Go Out, You Don’t Have To Come Back By J.R. Lee, AOC, USCG (Ret.) And Ted A. Morris, Lt. Col., USAF, Retired

• Huge Seaplane Lost In 1,004 Feet Of Water Wing Tip Pontoon Only Clue Found By William Snyder
• Cigars and Rough Water - Coast Guard Develops Rough Water Landing Techniques 1949
• A Brief History Of Coast Guard Aviation by Capt F.A. Erickson (Ret)
• Photographic Chronicle Of The First Coast Guard Icebreaker-Helo Deployment 1946
• Grand Fun While It Lasted: The Coast Guard Career Of Capt Peter E. Prindle (Ret)
• The Legacy Of Commander Elmer F. Stone, USCG-Coast Guard Aviator #1
• Station Log For Establishment and Commissioning Of Coast Guard Air Stattion Mobile, AL 1966
• USCG Air Station Sangley Point, R.P.

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