Historic Documents & Official Publications (Database)

Documents, including PDF photo collections, reproductions and scans of drawings, illustrations, and images, from the archives of the U.S. Coast Guard and its five predecessor agencies: the Revenue Cutter Service, the Life-Saving Service, the Lighthouse Service, the Bureau of Navigation, and the Steamboat Inspection Service from the Coast Guard Archives and Special Collections, Coast Guard, and National Archives.

NOTE: Documents provided are in the public domain.

U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office
2703 Martin Luther King, Jr., Ave, SE
Washington, DC 20593-7031


U.S. Coast Guard Museum
Coast Guard Academy - Waesche Hall
15 Mohegan Ave
New London, CT 06320-8100

Contacting us:  U.S.C.G. Historian's Office

Images & Photographs

Coast Guardsman Jack Dempsey

"COAST GUARDSMEN MEET DEMPSEY IN PACIFIC [--] Aboard a Coast Guard-manned LST in the Pacific, three Pennsylvania Coast Guardsmen get acquainted with Coast Guard COMDR. Jack Dempsey, who is touring Pacific combat zones as Director of the Coast Guard's Recreation and Physical Fitness programs. Front is David Thomas, Quartermaster, of Norwood. Others, left to right: Charels J. Wherle, Photographer's Mate, of. . .Philadelphia; Commander Dempsey; and Elwood H. Dorman, Radioman, of. . . Philadelphia ." CG Photo No. 4230; no date. From CG Historian's Office Special Collections, Leonard Webb collection.

VIRIN: 220211-G-G0000-015.JPG
Photo by: USCG Historian's Office

Photo Details

Resolution: 2443x3004
Size: 0.94 MB
Location: Unknown