When the U.S. entered World War II a few years later ... Academy is where every Coast Guard officer is born. One of the Coast Guard cutters named after Coast Guard hero and Medal of Honor ...

There are several classes of Coast Guard ships that are called cutters. Learn where the name came from and why it's used so widely in today's service.

Open warfare is always harrowing, but the Cold War was horrifically tense ... USCGC Mellon fired one in 1990, the only Coast Guard cutter ever to do so. After the USSR collapsed, the missiles ...

NEWPORT, R.I. (WAVY) — A Coast ... Guard’s newest cutter. But it wasn’t until after the ceremony in Newport, Rhode Island, that he found out the ship’s namesake was a World War II hero ...

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Stratton (WMSL 752) and its crew departed Puerto Princesa, Philippines, Monday, after in-port ...

The U.S. Coast Guard commissioned its newest cutter, the USCGC Calhoun (WMSL ... Calhoun served in the U.S. Navy during World War II before enlisting in the Coast Guard in 1946.

Crew members from Coast Guard Cutter ... including the cutter’s sponsor and Mrs. Finch’s daughter, Mrs. Betty Murphy. The cutters namesake, Florence Ebersole Smith Finch, was a Filipino-American and a ...

WASHINGTON STATE — The newest Coast Guard Cutter honors a woman you may have ... against the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II. In 1944, she was discovered, tortured, and confined ...