Oct 24, 2018 | Coast Guard
When Dolores (Denfeld) Schubilske enlisted in the Coast Guard, the United States was already into its third year of World War II. Bloody battles were being fought throughout Europe and the Pacific while hundreds of thousands of men were giving their lives in different...
Aug 21, 2018 | Coast Guard
Phyllis Baguley of Lansing, Michigan, holds the honor of being the first SPAR to set foot on overseas soil. Pictured here as she suns herself on the boat deck of the former luxury liner that transported her overseas, she led the first overseas contingent of SPARs as...
Aug 6, 2018 | Coast Guard
War: Iraq War, 2003-2011 Branch: Coast Guard Unit: USCGC Aquidneck (WPB 1309); USCGC Kiska (WPB 1336); USCGC Storis (WMEC 38) Service Location: Manama, Bahrain; Khawr Abd Allah River; Al Faw Peninsula; Khawr Al Amaya; Mina Al Baker Oil Terminals; Kodiak, Alaska; Hilo,...
Aug 3, 2018 | Coast Guard, Navy
In 1942 Stratton took a leave of absence from Purdue University and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Women’s Reserve of the U.S. Naval Reserve, which was also known as the WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service). She later credited Lillian...
Jul 6, 2018 | Coast Guard
Coast Guard Boatswain’s Mate Third Class Mary Anne Recto was born in the Philippines and served from 1980 to 1985. In January 1982, she was part of the team on operations following the Air Florida Flight 90 crash into the Potomac River in Washington, D. We honor you,...
Jun 21, 2018 | Coast Guard
Frustrated by her clerical work as a civilian in 1944, Eleanor C. L’Ecuyer volunteered to join the Coast Guard in Boston, in the midst of her workday at Boston Edison Company. “I went for a walk at the suggestion of my boss and came back a member of the Coast Guard,”...
