The Coast Guard in Massachusetts (Images of America)
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (567 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0738575623 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Galluzzo is the executive director of the US Life-Saving Service Heritage Association; the editor of that organization’s magazine, Wreck and Rescue; and a plank-owning member of the Foundation for Coast Guard History. Cann, a park ranger for the National Park Service in the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, served in the US Army. . While in the Coast Guard, he served as Group Woods Hole rescue commander from 1998 to 2001 and chief o
John J. About the Author Donald J. Russell Webster, USCG (Ret.), served 26 years in military service. Galluzzo is the executive director of the US Life-Saving Service Heritage Association; the editor of that organization’s magazine, Wreck and Rescue; and a plank-owning member of the Foundation for Coast Guard History. Cann, a park ranger for the National Park Service in the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, served in the US Army. While in the Coast Guard, he served as Group Woods Hole rescue c
They have protected the Massachusetts coastline during numerous wars, performing some of the most dramatic rescues in American historyfrom the Pendleton to the Argo Merchant to the Etrusco and more. The Coast Guard’s deepest roots run through Massachusetts, the ancestral home to three of the five predecessor agencies that make up the service today. The Coast Guard formed in 1915 and since that time has served the citizens of the Bay State at lifeboat stations, air stations, lighthouses, LORAN station
Highly recommend any of the "Images of" series which are legion This book gave me all the information I had been looking for over the years since I was stationed at Gloucester LBS during the 1960's. At Doliver's Neck LBS ,not the "new" station on the state fish pier There was a group of us all stationed together who needed some answers and this book provided us with those. Highly recommend any of the "Images of" series which are legion.This was back in the last days of the wooden fishing schooners before the