First Coast Guard Women Assigned to Sea Duty

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First Coast Guard Women Assigned to Sea Duty

The first group of Coast Guard women assigned to sea duty here aboard their cutter USCGC UNIMAK on 9 May 1973

Tags: Women, integration, First women at sea, Unimak

Photo by: USCG Historian's Office, G-09231 | VIRIN: 210210-G-G0000-0001.JPG

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