US Coast Guard in World War II
By: Alejandro de Quesada ; illustrated by Stephen Walsh ; consultant editor, Martin Windrow
Contributors: Walsh, Stephen, 1966- ill; Windrow, Martin
Series: Elite -- 180; Elite series -- 180.
Publisher: Osprey Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; Long Island City, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781846039195; 9781849082716
Subjects: Campaigns; United States. Coast Guard; Coastal surveillance; American Naval operations; World War, 1939-1945; United States; History
Other titles: U.S. Coast Guard in World War II; US Coast Guard in World War 2; US Coast Guard in World War Two
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 62-63) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The pre-war Coast Guard; the "rum war" and the "hooligan Navy;" the Coast Guard Reserve and Auxiliary; title: The Coast Guard goes to war; Pearl Harbor; command and control; USCG Women's Reserve (SPARs); uniforms; title: The home front; USCG Reserve temporary members; port security and beach patrols; title: The Battle of the Atlantic; pre-war operations : Greenland; Doenitz's Operation Paukenschlag, January-July 1942; the North Atlantic : "the bloody winter," 1942/43, Escort Group A-3 : convoys SC-112, ON-166, SC-121, HX-233; antisubmarine operations from May 1943 : destroyers and frigates, hunter-killer groups, the last battles, spring 1945; title: The Mediterranean and European theaters; air attacks; USCGC Menges and U-371; the Normandy landings : Assault Group 0-1, control ships, Rescue Flotilla 1; title: The Pacific theater; the Aleutians, 1942-43 and thereafter; amphibious campaigns, southwest & central Pacific : the Solomons, the Gilberts, and Marshalls, New Guinea and the Marianas, the Philippines, Iwo Jima and Okinawa; miscellaneous operations in the CBI; title: Aftermath & summary.