Coast Guard Cutters of the Northeast (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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For many mariners across the northeast, the appearance of a U.S. Coast Guard Cutter can be a welcome and reassuring sight. However, even more significant is the life and death experiences of ten enlisted heroes with New England connections for whom the 154-foot Sentinel Class Cutters are named. These pulse-pounding accounts include a brave WWII Coast Guardsman who sacrificed his safety to render aid to comrades after a Japanese kamikaze plane attacked when American forces attempted to retake the Philippines; the tragic attack on the SS Dorchester in frigid North Atlantic waters when Warren Deyampert answered the call of duty in some of the most challenging moments of Coast Guard history; and the sinking and capture of Nazi submarine prisoners in WWII by a Coast Guard cutter's crew off Charleston, South Carolina. At the forefront of the list is the heroic 1952 effort that resulted in the greatest small boat rescue in Coast Guard history, where a four-man crew from Chatham, Massachusetts rescued thirty-two seamen from the Pendleton in mountainous seas. In this volume, authors Captain W. Russell "Russ" Webster USCG (Ret.) and historian Theresa Mitchell Webster detail the heroes behind the names.