The Greatest Coast Guard Rescue Stories Ever Told

The Greatest Coast Guard Rescue Stories Ever Told
Author: Tom McCarthy
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2017-08-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1493027034


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Exciting rescue stories on the high seas! The Coast Guard’s rescue personnel are second to none, and Coast Guard air and sea rescue missions have been the subjects of celebrated newspaper accounts, books, and movies, including The Perfect Storm. The Coast Guard is one of the nation's five military services, which exist to defend and preserve the United States. In The Greatest Coast Guard Rescue Stories Ever Told, the editor has pulled together some of the finest writings about air and sea rescues that capture readers imaginations, culled from books, magazines, and elsewhere. It is an unforgettable collection, and includes stories by Kathryn Miles, Eric Hartlep, Gerald Hoover, Martha Laguardia-Kotite, Geoffrey D. Reynolds, Kalee Thompson, H. Paul Jeffers, and many others.


The Greatest Coast Guard Rescue Stories Ever Told
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Tom McCarthy
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08-01 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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Exciting rescue stories on the high seas! The Coast Guard’s rescue personnel are second to none, and Coast Guard air and sea rescue missions have been the sub
Deadliest Sea
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: Kalee Thompson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-06-14 - Publisher: Harper Collins

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Soon after 2:00 a.m. on Easter morning 2008, the fishing trawler Alaska Ranger began taking on water in the middle of the frigid Bering Sea. While the first mat
Rescue Warriors
Language: en
Pages: 383
Authors: David Helvarg
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-05-12 - Publisher: Macmillan

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The Extraordinary Story Of The U.S. Coast Guard Since its founding more than two hundred years ago, the United States Coast Guard has rescued over a million peo
The Finest Hours
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Michael J. Tougias
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-12-08 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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The 1952 Coast Guard mission to save the crews of two oil tankers that were torn in half by the force of one of New England's worst nor'easters.
Brotherhood of the Fin
Language: en
Pages: 206
Authors: Gerald R Hoover
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-06-15 - Publisher: Independently Published

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From an early age I craved adventure, that adrenaline rush. I found it when I joined the Coast Guard in 1986, near the beginning of the Helicopter Rescue Swimme