Clyde A. Baptist, Jr., posing with his crew, England

Photograph. Clyde A. Baptist, Jr. [front row, center-left] posing with his crew in front of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. Lieutenant H. C.

Clyde A. Baptist, Jr., posing with his crew, England

Photograph. Clyde A. Baptist, Jr. [front row, center-left] posing with his crew in front of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. Lieutenant H. C.

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Coast Guard and Marines unloading vehicles from landing ship at Cape Gloucester, New Britain, December 26, 1941.

Landing Ship Tanks unloading on shoreline. "File No: C.G. 3071.

Coast Guard cadets extinguishing a fire, United States

Photograph. Three Coast Guard cadets use a water hose to extinguish a fire during a drill. Official caption on reverse: "92143(3).

Coast Guard crew practicing fire fighting drills, Alaska

Photograph. Coast Guard crew aboard a fireboat practicing fire fighting drills. Caption on reverse: "0317445.

Coast Guard Cutter in the North Atlantic

Photograph. Coast Guard Cutter steaming through white-capped waves in the North Atlantic. Official caption on reverse: "3385.

Coast Guard fireboats fight a dock fire during World War II

Smoke billows from a burning loading dock with cranes. Coast Guard crew on fireboats attempt to put out the blaze.

Coast Guard gunner operating a 20mm antiaircraft gun fires toward Normandy coastline in June 1944

Coast Guard gunner operating a 20mm antiaircraft gun aboard a Coast Guard vessel.

Coast Guard heavy machinery landing on a beach, Sicily, 1943

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Coast Guard landing US Army soldiers on Luzon beach, Philippines, 1945

Photograph. United States Army soldiers debarking from a Coast Guard-piloted landing craft onto a beach; landing craft fill the background.

Coast Guard officers observing a Coast Guard fire boat demonstration, Washington, D.C.

Photograph. Vice Admiral Russell R. Waesche and Captain Norman B. Hall observe a Coast Guard fire boat demonstration.