The U.S. Coast Guard in World War II - General Overview, Pre-War Issues and Combined Topic Sources

Historical Bibliography

Articles

"Anti-Sabotage Control." The Bulletin (Mar 1942), pp. 3-4.

"Around the Globe!" Coast Guard Magazine (Dec 1942), pp. 6-9.

Bartlett, Arthur. "Smooth and Ready: Do You Know That the Coast Guard is Ready to Fight?  That its 267 armed Cutters are Backed by a Reserve of 4,000 Private Motorboats?  That You Can Thank One Man?  Meet a Go-Getter Named Waesche." Coast Guard Magazine 14, No. 8 (Jun 1941), pp. 18-19, 47.

"Battle Report from a Combat Cutter." Coast Guard Magazine (Sep 1945), pp. 34-38.

Bradley, Fred. "The Coast Guard Operating Under the Present Unlimited National Emergency." The Bulletin (Jul 1941), pp. 76-80.

Brown, Raymond J. "Coast Guard Codebreakers: Inspire Those Who Serve." Naval Institute Proceedings 124 (Dec 1998), pp. 34-36.

Browning, Robert M., Jr. "The Coast Guard in World War II." Commandant's Bulletin (Sep 1991), pp. 16-18.

________. "The Coast Guard in World War II." Commandant's Bulletin (Dec 1991), pp. 24-25.

"The Coast Guard." In The Second Navy Reader, ed. William H. Fetridge, pp. 319-324. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill 1944; reprint 1971.

"The Coast Guard Girds for Battle." Popular Mechanics LXXVII (Jun 1942), pp. 34-39.

"The Coast Guard and National Defense." The Bulletin (Oct 1940), pp. 1-5.

"Coast Guard Now Operating as a Part of the Navy." Coast Guard Bulletin I, 30 (Dec 1941), pp. 235-237.

"Coast Guard Officers Decorated." The Bulletin (Mar 1944), p. 221.

"Coast Patrol: Coast Guard Establishes Network of Surveillance. . .Harbors and Waterways Protected from Sabotage. . .Cutters, Patrol Craft and Aircraft Guard Atlantic Waters Against Acts of Piracy of Dictator Nations."  Coast Guard Magazine 14 No. 10 (Aug 1941), pp. 7-12.

"The Coast Guard in World War II." Naval Institute Proceedings 88 (Sep 1957), pp. 990-1000.

"The Coast Guard in World War II." [26 parts] Coast Guard Magazine (Nov 1952-Mar 1955).

"Coast Guard Headquarters Reorganization." Naval Institute Proceedings LXVIII (Sep 1942), pp. 1321-22.

"Coast Guard Radio in War and Peace." Radio News, XXIX (Jun 1943), pp. 158-160.

Colton, F. Barrows. "Life with Our Fighting Coast Guard." National Geographic (May 1943), pp. 557-558.

"Construction of Coast Guard Cutters and Boats During the War." The Bulletin (Sep 1945), pp. 183-185.

"Demobilization and the Curtailment of Activities." The Bulletin (Oct 1945), pp. 205-209.

Farley, J.F. "Radio in the Coast Guard." Radio News XXVII (Jan 1942), pp. 43-48.

Foster, Kevin. "The Coast Guard in World War II." Commandant's Bulletin (Nov 1991), pp. 12-14.

"Front Page Coast Guard." Newsweek (Aug 7, 1944), pp. 78-79.

Haley, Alex. "The Most Unforgettable Character I’ve Met." Reader’s Digest 78 (Mar 1961), pp. 73-77.

________. "These Things We Fight For." Coast Guard Magazine (June, 1942), p. 47.

"Has the End of the War Been Planned?" Coast Guard Magazine (Feb 1943), p. 8.

"Heroes of the Coast Guard." Popular Mechanics LXXX (Aug 1943), pp. 60-63.

Herold, Frank C. "The Coast Guard as a Naval Asset." Naval Institute Proceedings 67 (Jul 1941), pp. 969-976.

Hobleman, D. E. "Chicago's Anchorage Patrol: Surveillance of Important Inland Waters is Part of National Defense Duties in Crowded Coast Guard Program." Coast Guard Magazine 15, No. 2 (Dec 1941), pp. 33, 67.

"How the Coast Guard Aids Stranded Vessels." Motor Boating and Sailing LXX (Dec 1942), p. 62.

"Ice Breaking [Ninth District]." Coast Guard Magazine (May 1942), p. 39.

"Invasion Quarterbacks." Coast Guard Magazine (Mar 1945), pp. 36, 38-39.

Jordan, Beckwith. "Mississippi River Ferry Program." The Bulletin (Mar 1945), pp. 313-314.

Leary, R.T. "Semper Paratus." Naval Institute Proceedings 70 (Apr 1944), pp. 404-414.

Lloyd, Edw. "War and the Coast Guard." Coast Guard Magazine (Jul 1940), p. 6.

Markey, Morris. "The Coast Guard." Liberty (Jul 11, 1942), p. 21.

"New C.G. Duties." Coast Guard Magazine (May 1942), p. 36.

"On Seven Seas." Coast Guard Magazine (Feb 1944), pp. 18-19.

"Our National Defense...Comparison of Opposing Forces." Coast Guard Magazine (Jun 1941), pp. 28-29, 43.

"Parachute Rescue Group Organized for Service in Alaskan Area." Coast Guard Bulletin II, 18 (Dec 1943), p. 220.

Pell, Clairborne. "The Coast Guard in the War." Naval Institute Proceedings 67 (Dec 1942), pp. 1744-1746.

Perkins, Louis W. "The Cruise of the Transport Hunter Liggett." Coast Guard Magazine 15, No. 2 (Dec 1941), pp. 20-21.

Pernham, H. N. "New C.G. Vessels: Coast Guard Fleet to be Augmented by Vessels Now Authorized.  Important Engineering Features in New Craft." Coast Guard Magazine, 15 No. 2 (Dec 1941), p. 63.

Phillips, H.L. "The Coast Guard Cutters." The Bulletin (Apr 1941), p. 35.

Pickering, William T. "The Coast Guard Carries On." Yachting LXXII (May 1943), pp. 37-38, 68-70.

Pierson, H.E. "Training for Naval Military Government." Coast Guard Magazine (Nov 1944), p. 20.

[Portugal] Shastany, Fred R. "The Coast Guard Overseas: The [CGC] Campbell Guards American Interests in Portugal."  Coast Guard Magazine 14 No. 5 (Mar 1941), p. 17.

[Portugal] "The [CGC] Campbell in Lisbon: Crack Coast Guard Cutter Guards American Interests Amidst European Turmoil."  Coast Guard Magazine 14 No. 6 (Apr 1941), pp. 20-21.

[Portugal] "In Old Portugal: Coast Guardsmen Aboard the Ingham View a Country of Dual Personality." Coast Guard Magazine 14, No. 11 (Sep 1941), pp. 22-23.

"Revised [ WW I & WW II ] Death Figures." Coast Guard Bulletin VII, 3 (Sep 1951), p. 39.

Richardson, W.C. "The Contribution of Inland Waterways to the War Effort 1939-1946. Waterways V (Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, & Nov 1946), 5 installments.

Rimington, Critchell. "America's 'First Fleet' The Nation's Oldest Marine Service Today Operates One of the World's Most Diversified Fleets." Yachting LXXIII (May 1943), pp. 17-23, 76-82.

"Service Notes: Honors and Awards." The Bulletin (Apr 1945), pp. 14-19.

Shea, John M.  "U.S. Coast Guard Aviation and LORAN." The Quarterdeck Log 15, No. 2 (Summer 2000), pp. 26-29.

"'Shoot on Sight!' Franklin D. Roosevelt: President's Order to 'Shoot on sight' Greeted with Enthusiasm by Gun crews.  Coast Guard Cutters on Mid-Atlantic Weather Patrol Fact Threat of Nazi U-Boat Attacks." Coast Guard Magazine 15, No. 2 (Dec 1941), pp. 14-19

"Sinbad, Over the Hill in Sicily, Nabbed by Shore Patrol." The Bulletin (Jan 1945), p. 247.

"Soon-The Invasion! [CG practices invasion tactics]." Coast Guard Magazine (Aug 1943), pp. 48-49, 51-52.

Stanford, Neal. "Coast Guard Camera 'Click' in Putting Servicemen in Proper Focus." Christian Science Monitor Magazine (Feb 24, 1945), p. 9.

"Statistics for 1942 Show Wartime Trends of Service Operations." Coast Guard Bulletin II, 5 (Nov 1942), p. 46.

"Status of Coast Guard as Naval Unit Defined." The Bulletin (Apr 1942), pp. 21-23.

Taussig, J.K. "Naval War-Time Discipline." Naval Institute Proceedings 70 (Jul 1944), pp. 859-865.

"Taxi Skippers of the Coast Guard." Popular Mechanics LXXXI (May 1944), pp. 82-87.

Tourtellot, Arthur B. "The Coast Guard of Tradition and Today's War." Shipmate VI (Nov 1943), pp. 12-14, 87-89.

"The U.S. Coast Guard Protects Our Sea Frontiers and Fight for America in Far-off Corners of the World." Lifeife (Dec 14, 1942), pp. 51-56.

Waesche, Russell R. "The Coast Guard at War." The Bulletin (Dec 1942), pp. 102-105.

________. "Some Defense Duties of the Coast Guard." Coast Guard Magazine (Feb 1942), pp. 14-16.

________. "U.S. Coast Guard, an Analysis of Coast Guard Duties in the National Defense Program." Coast Guard Magazine (Oct 1941), pp. 10-11, 66.

________. "World Affairs and the Coast Guard." Coast Guard Magazine (Feb 1941), pp. 5-6.

Walliser, Blair A. "The Two Fathom Fleet." Naval Institute Proceedings 73 (Jan 1947), pp. 73-75.

"War Will Find Coast Guard Prepared to Uphold Its Rich Tradition: 'Semper Paratus' - Always Ready." Coast Guard Magazine 14 No. 6 (Apr 1941), p. 36.

Zittel, K.O.A. "A [Spencer] Gunnery Miss." The Bulletin (Mar-Apr 1966), pp. 118-120.

Zollars, Chris E. "The Coast Guard in World War II." Commandant's Bulletin (Jun 1991), pp. 20-22.

Books and Government Publications

Battle Stations! Your Navy in Action: A Photographic Epic of the Naval Operations of World War II Told by the Great Admirals Who Sailed the Fleet from Norfolk to Normandy and from the Golden Gate to the Inland Sea. New York: William H. Wise and Company, Inc., 1946.

Crane, Aimee, ed. Art in the Armed Forces: Pictures by Men in Action. New York: The Hyperion Press, 1944.

________. G.I. Sketch Book. Washington: Infantry Journal, 1944.

Ericson, Wilbert M.  The World War II Experiences of LT (JG) W. M. Ericson.  Aurora, IL: By the Author, 2001.

Felsen, Henry. He's in the Coast Guard Now. New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1943.

Fredrick, Leon. Hooligan Sailor: The Saga of One Coast Guardsman in World War II. Ozark, MO: Hazelwood Publishing, 2005.

Furer, Julius A. Administration of the Navy Department in World War II. Washington: GPO, 1959.

Ingraham, Reg. First Fleet: The Story of the U.S. Coast Guard at War. New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1944.

King, Ernest J. U.S. Navy at War 1941-1945: Official Reports to the Secretary of the Navy by Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, U.S. Navy, Commander in Chief, United States Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations. Washington: United States Navy Department, 1946.

Maas, Henry S., ed. Adventures in Mental Health: Psychiatric Socialwork with the Armed Forces in World War II. New York: Columbia University Press, 1950.

Mercey, Arch A. and Lee Grove, eds. Sea, Surf, & Hell: The U.S. Coast Guard in World War II. New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1945.

Morison, Samuel Eliot. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. 15 vols. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1947-1962.

________. The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1963.

Pulwers, Jack E. The Press of Battle: The GI Reporter and the American People.  Raleigh, NC: Ivyhouse Publishing Group, 2003.

Rohwer, J., & G. Hummelchen. Chronology of the War at Sea, 1939-1945 The Naval History of World War Two. 2d ed. Annapolis: NIP, 1992.

Roskill, Stephen W. The War At Sea. London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1954-1961.

United States Coast Guard. Statistical Division/Historical Section. Public Information Division. The Coast Guard At War. Washington: Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, 30 Jun 1944-1 Jan 1954. 30 Monographs:

________. Statistical Division.________.________. Introduction: Dec. 7, 1941 - Apr. 12 1944. I. Washington: Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Jun 30 1944.

________. Historical Section.________.________. Greenland Patrol. II. Washington: Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Jul 15 1945.

________.________.________.________. Alaska. III. Washington: Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Feb 15 1946.

________.________.________.________. LORAN. IV. 2 Vols. Washington: Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters. Volume 1. Early Electronic History and the Bridging of the North Atlantic and North Pacific, May 1 1946. Volume 2. Coast Guard Construction Detachments in the Pacific Theatre. August 1 1946. (LORAN Volume I; LORAN Volume 2).

________.________.________.________. Transports and Escorts. V. 2 Vols. Washington: Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Volume 1, Escorts, Mar 1 1949; Volume 2, Transports, May 1 1949.

________.________.________.________. The Pacific Landings. VI. Washington: Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Mar 15, 1946.

________.________.________.________. Weather Patrol. VII. Washington: Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Jun 1 1949.

________.________.________.________. Lost Cutters. VIII. Washington: Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Jul 1 1947.

________.________.________.________. North African Landings. IX. Washington: Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Jun 1 1946.

________.________.________.________. Sicily - Italy Landings. X. Washington: Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Jul 1 1946.

________.________.________.________. Landings in France. XI. Washington: Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Sep 1 1946.

________.________.________.________. Intelligence. XII. Washington: Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Jan 1 1941.

________.________.________.________. Marine Inspection. XIII. 2 Vols. Washington: Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters. Volume 1, ; Volume 2, Apr 1 1951.

________.________.________.________. Assistance. XIV. 2 Vols. Washington: U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters. Volume 1, Oct 30 1944; Volume 2, Jan 1 1947.

________.________.________.________. Aids to Navigation. XV. Washington: Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Jul 1 1949.

________.________.________.________. Communications. XVI. 2 Vols. Washington: Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Aug 1 1947.

________.________.________.________. Beach Patrol. XVII. Washington: Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, May 15 1945.

________.________.________.________. Port Security. XVIII. Washington: Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Sep 1 1949.

________.________.________.________. Auxiliary. XIX. Washington: Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, May 1 1948.

________.________.________.________. Temporary Reserve. XX. Washington: Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Jan 1 1948.

________.________.________.________. Aviation. XXI. Washington: Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Dec 15 1945.

________.________.________.________. Women’s Reserve. XXII. Washington: Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Apr 15 1946.

________.________.________.________. Public Relations. XXIII. Washington: Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Jan 1 1950.

________.________.________.________. Finance. XXIV. Washington: Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Jan 1 1954.

________.________.________.________. Personnel. XXV. Washington: Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, May 1 1950.

________.________.________.________. Medical. XXVI. Washington: Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Dec 1 1950.

________.________.________.________. Legal. XXVII. Washington: Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, 1 Sep 1951.

________.________.________.________. Naval Engineering. XXVIII. Washington: Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Sep 1 1951.

________.________.________.________. Civil Engineering. XXIX. Washington: Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Nov 1 1951.

________.________.________.________. Communications Engineering. XXX. Washington: Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Jun 1, 1948.

________. United States Coast Guard Combat and Overseas Operations. Washington: Public Relations Division, U.S. Coast Guard, May 1945.

United States Navy Department. Office of Naval Operations. U.S. Navy at War 1941-1945, Official Reports to the Secretary of the Navy By Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, U.S. Navy Commander in Chief, United States Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations. Washington: United States Navy Department, 1946.

________.________. Naval History Division. United States Naval Chronology, World War II. Washington: GPO, 1955.

War Department. Navy Department. Escorting American War Dead. Washington: War Department, 1947.

Willoughby, Malcolm F. The U.S. Coast Guard in World War II. Annapolis: United States Naval Institute 1957; revised, 1989.