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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
USCGC Spencer battles & sinks the U-175.
240621-G-G0000-018.JPG Photo By: USCG Historian's Office (& NARA)

North Atlantic - Official Caption: "U.S. Coast Guardsmen help a Nazi U-Boat man along the deck of the Coast Guard cutter, after fishing him out of the sea. The German in one of a number who managed to escape from their submarine, sunk by Coast Guard depth charges and guns when it attempted to attack a convoy in the Atlantic. The German still wears around his neck the 'lung' used in going through the submarine's escape hatch." Date: 17 April 1943 (photo cleared by censors and released on 19 July 1943); Photo No.: 1578; Photographer: Bob Gates Source - NARA Description: On board the Duane, Coast Guardsmen assist U-175 crewman Matrosenobergefreiter Dieter Wolf. The Coast Guardsman on the left is Petty Officer 2/c George Chioran, Jr.


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