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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-G0000-019.JPG Photo By: USCG Historian's Office (& NARA)

North Atlantic - Official Caption: "'CALM DOWN FRITZ, YOU'RE OUT OF THE WAR': Fished out of the Atlantic after a Coast Guard combat cutter had scored a kill over a Nazi submarine with the depth charges, this frightened German seaman is led to the cutter's quarterdeck by two Coast Guardsmen. Forty-one Germans were picked up by two Coast Guard cutters during this mid-ocean action." Date: 17 April 1943; Photo No.: 1581; Photographer: Bob Gates Source - NARA Description: Maschinengefreiter Otto Herzke is escorted by two Duane crewman. Note his escape equipment.


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