SANDWICH, Mass. – Today, Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod remembered four shipmates who died in 1979. A wreath was dropped into the sea from a Coast Guard HH-60 helicopter in remembrance of the crew of the HH-3F Pelican helicopter, the CG-1432.
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Coast Guard Flies Critical Blood Donations to Brooke Army Medical Center
HOUSTON – A bomb explodes. The explosion is so loud your ears are already ringing. The force of the detonation has sent you flying backwards and you land, with a thud, on your back. You hear the faint sounds of people yelling and screaming. Through the dust that now clouds the [...]
Today in Coast Guard History – February 17th
1944- Coast Guardsmen participated in the invasions of Eniwetok and Engebi, Marshall Island.
1956- The CGC Casco saved 21 persons from a US Navy seaplane that was forced to ditch 100 miles south of Bermuda and delivered both the survivors and the disabled aircraft to the Naval Air Station at St. Georgia Harbor, Bermuda.