The U.S. Coast Guard in World War II - European Theatre Operations

Historical Bibliography

Articles

"Action at Algiers." The Bulletin (Mar 1943), p. 155.

Bishop, Eleanor C. "Seagoing St. Bernards." Naval History 8 (May/Jun 1994), pp. 19-25.

Brown, Fletcher W., Jr. "A Transport Officer Writes Home from the Mediterranean." The Bulletin V, No. 9 (Dec 1943), pp. 146-150.

Browning, Robert M., Jr. "Amphibious Landings: WWII brought the Coast Guard to the shores of North Africa." Commandant's Bulletin (Dec 1992), pp. 16-19.

________. "Operation Husky." Commandant's Bulletin (Jul 1993), pp., 20-23.

________. "Taking the Beach--The Salerno, Italy Landings." Commandant's Bulletin (Sep 1993), pp. 19-22.

Cain, William Charles. "Typical Coast Guard Action [Skipper of LCI Tells of Landing at Salerno]." Coast Guard Magazine 17 (Dec 1943), p. 39.

Cantillon, Matthew. "Traffic Cops of Invasion." American Magazine CXXXIV (May 1945), p. 28.

"Coast Guard in Africa." Coast Guard Magazine (Feb 1943), pp. 6-7.

"Coast Guard in Sicily." The Bulletin (Sep 1943), pp. 93-96.

Conrad, Robert C. "How Two Cutters Went to Glory [Oran]." Coast Guard Magazine (Oct 1943), pp. 18-19.

Curtis, L. Rupert. "Wacco, America! [British officer praised C.G. rescue cutters]." Coast Guard Magazine (Jun 1946), pp. 44-48.

Ehrman, W.E. "Operation Torch." The Bulletin (Jan-Feb 1974), pp. 27-30.

Farrar, Arthur. "LCI's Are Veterans Now." The Bulletin (Dec 1944), pp. 181-191.

"The Flotilla [Ten] at Salerno." Coast Guard Magazine (Jun 1953), pp. 35-37.

"Get There Fustest! P.S. And the Coast Guard Does!" Coast Guard Magazine (Aug 1944), pp. 16-18, 20-21.

Heckman, Albert A. "First Ashore at Algiers!" Yachting LXXIII (May 1943), pp. 34, 82-86.

Hendley, Coit. "An LST Sinks." Coast Guard Magazine (Mar 1954), pp. 38-40.

Imlay, Miles. "Historic Greenway House 1944 and 1973."The Bulletin (May-Jun 1974), pp. 35-44.

"Incidents of the North African Invasion." The Bulletin (Feb 1943), pp. 138-140.

"The Joseph Dickman at Salerno." Coast Guard Magazine (Apr 1953), pp. 38-41.

"The Landings At Sicily." Coast Guard Magazine (Nov 1952), pp. 34-36; (Dec 1952), pp. 30-34.

"LCI(L)-85, 91, 92, 93 [lost at Normandy]." Coast Guard Magazine (Jul 1952), pp. 25-27.

"LST's at Sicily." The Bulletin V, No. 10 (Jan 1944), pp. 173-176.

"A Lucky Cox'n." Sea Power IV (Nov 1944), pp. 113-114.

"Navy Cross Awarded Coast Guard Man for North African Episode." Coast Guard Bulletin II, 13 (Jul 1943), p. 155.

"Normandy Beaches, 1944: The Coast Guard was There!" The Bulletin (May-Jun 1980), pp. 20-25.

"Normandy Story Reprinted..." Commandant's Bulletin (Aug 1 1969), pp. 6, Suppl. No. 4.

"Operation Neptune." Naval Institute Proceedings 80 (Jun 1954), pp. 672-685.

"Overseas With the Invaders." Coast Guard Magazine (Mar 1944), pp. 34-35.

Pevzner, Bill. "Into the Unknown...[Normandy]." Coast Guard Magazine (May 1945), pp. 49-50.

Price, Scott T. "Coast Guard On the Attack." The American Legion Magazine 136 (Jun 1994), pp. 31, 66.

________. "USCG Flotilla Ten Trained at Agatha Christie's Estate." The Coast Guard Reservist (Jun 1994), p. 9.

"The Samuel Chase at Salerno." Coast Guard Magazine (May 1953), pp. 6-8.

Seidl, Edward H. "Laughter Helped Gobs in Africa." Coast Guard Magazine (Mar 1943), pp. 52-53.

Strobridge, Truman R. "If FDR hadn't made his suggestion, 1,437 more men (and a woman) might not have survived Normandy." Great Battles 7 (Jul 1994), pp. 10-14.

________., & Bernard C. Nalty. "St. Bernards of Normandy." Sea Classics 7 (Jan 1974), pp. 62-65.

Sullivan, Jack. "Every Man Distinguished Himself." VFW: Veterans of Foreign Wars (Aug 1985), pp. 30-31.

Walliser, Blair. "The Coast Guard Takes 'em Ashore." Sea Power IV (Nov 1944), pp. 40-42, 99-102.

Walsh, Quentin R. "A 'BIGOT' Recalls His Participation in Operation Overlord, Phase Neptune -- The Invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944."  The Bulletin (Oct 2000), pp. 10-11.

________.  "What Ever Happened to 'Rankin Case C?'" The Bulletin (Jul/Aug 1980), pp. 30-31.

Wood, Hunter. "The Coast Guard Carries No Umbrella." Skyways II (Aug 1943), p. 18.

Zelinski, Charles. "'Salerno, Italy.'" The Bulletin (Feb 1944), pp. 185-191.

Books and Government Publications

D'Este, Carlo. Decision in Normandy. New York: Dutton, 1983.

Edwards, Kenneth. Operation Neptune. London: Collins, 1946.

Harrison, Gordon A. Cross Channel Attack. United States Army in World War II: The European Theater of Operations, vol. 3. Washington: Department of the Army, Office of the Chief of Military History 1951.

Hartcup, Guy. Code Name Mulberry: The Planning, Building, & Operation of the Normandy Harbours. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1977.

Ligon, David L. The Three Longest Days: Sicily, Salerno, & Normandy. New York: Vantage 1972.

Nolda, Herbert E. with Valerie L. Vierk.  Sailing the Troubled Sea: A Nebraska Boy Goes to War: The World War II Memoirs of an Enlisted Man in the United States Coast Guard.  Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2007.

Operation Neptune Landings in Normandy Jun 1944. Invasion Europe. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1994.

Price, Scott T. The Coast Guard at Normandy. Washington: U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office 1994.

________. The Coast Guard at Normandy: A Fact Sheet. Washington: Community Relations Branch, U.S. Coast Guard, 1994.

________. The United States Coast Guard at Normandy: Coast Guard Commanded LCI(L) Flotilla Ten. Fact Sheet. Washington: U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office 1994.

________. The United States Coast Guard at Normandy: The Coast Guard-Manned USS Bayfield (APA-33). Fact Sheet. Washington: U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office 1994.

________. The United States Coast Guard at Normandy: The Coast Guard-Manned USS Joseph T. Dickman (APA-13). Fact Sheet. Washington: U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office 1994.

________. The United States Coast Guard at Normandy: The Coast Guard-Manned USS Samuel Chase (APA-26). Fact Sheet. Washington: U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office 1994.

________. The United States Coast Guard at Normandy: Coast Guard-Manned LSTs. Fact Sheet. Washington: U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office 1994.

________. The United States Coast Guard at Normandy: The Normandy Invasion and Agatha Christie. Fact Sheet. Washington: U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office 1994.

________. The United States Coast Guard at Normandy: Coast Guard-manned Landing Craft at Omaha Beach on D-Day. Fact Sheet. Washington: U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office 1994.

Ryan, Cornelius. The Longest Day: Jun 6, 1944. New York: Simon and Schuster 1959; reprint 1971.

Stanford, Alfred B. Force Mulberry: The Planning and Installation of the Artificial Harbor Off U.S. Normandy Beaches in World War II. New York: Morrow, 1951.

Stillwell, Paul, ed. Assault on Normandy: First-Person Accounts from the Sea Services. Annapolis: NIP, 1994.

U.S. Coast Guard. Historical Section. Public Information Division. The Coast Guard At War: North African Landings. Vol. IX. Washington: U.S. Coast Guard, 1 Jul 1946.

________.________.________. The Coast Guard At War: Sicily-Italy Landings. Vol. X. Washington: U.S. Coast Guard, 1 Jul 1946.

________.________.________. The Coast Guard At War: Landings In France. Vol. XI. Washington: U.S. Coast Guard, 1 Sep 1946.

United States Navy. Navy Office of Information. D-Day Jun 6, 1944: Dedicated to Veterans of Operation Neptune. Washington: Navy Office of Information, 1994.

United States Navy & Marine Corps WWII Commemorative Committee. D-Day, Jun 6, 1944-Jun 6, 1994. Washington: Navy and Marine Corps WWII Commemorative Committee 1994.

Walsh, Quentin R. Little Known Facts of a Well Known War: Beach Utah to Cherbourg, Brest, Lehavre. By the author, Jan 1994, revised.

War Department. Historical Division. Omaha Beachhead (6 Jun-13 Jun 1944). American Forces in Action Series. Washington: War Department, Historical Division, 1945; reprint, Washington: Center for Military History 1984.

________.________. Utah Beach to Cherbourg (6 Jun-27 Jun 1944). American Forces in Action Series. Washington: War Department, Historical Division, 1945; reprint, Washington: Center for Military History 1990.

Unpublished Papers, Theses and Dissertations

Kaplan, H.R. "The Magnificent Matchbox Fleet." n.d. [Copy on file with U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office]