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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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Trailblazing African American Coast Guardsman at War
230630-G-G0000-137.JPG Photo By: USCG Historian's Office

Unknown - "Coast Guardsman James McDaniel. . . .steward's mate first class, who has filled his [battle station] post as loader in a 20-millimeter gun crew aboard an attack transport during three invasions in the South Pacific." Photo originally printed in the January 22, 1944 issue of "The Afro-American" newspaper on page 3. Article entitled: "N.J. Family Mighty Proud of Coast Guard Hero."


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