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Photographs, including reproductions and scans of drawings, illustrations, and images, depicting 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, Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, and other sources (including private individuals and research organizations).

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Images & Photographs
1943 CGC Duane Escorts A Convoy
221011-G-G0000-107.JPG Photo By: USCG Historian's Office

At Sea - "THE COAST GUARD IS THE CONVOY'S BODY GUARD -- Its guns manned and its decks laden with depth charges, a Coast Guard Combat Cutter helps to safeguard a long line of merchant ships (on the horizon) carrying supplies for the Battle of Germany. These Coast Guard fighters played a major role in breaking the Nazi submarine menace in 1942 and 1943. Now they continue to keep the ship lanes to Europe free of enemy intruders." USCG Historian's Office Special Collections Archive & Library; World War II Subject File; "North Atlantic Campaign" box. 2nd floor archives room, Atkins Hall.


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