Sea, Surf and Hell

The U.S. Coast Guard in World War II

By Mercey, Arch A. (editor)
1945, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs
352 pages, 25 b&w photos

Descripton: A reader devoted to the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II, mainly comprising wartime articles from newspapers and magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, The New York Times, Time magazine, and others. Also includes some personal accounts, and even some transcripts of wartime radio broadcasts. Several stories deal with the Battle of the Atlantic, for example, a Time magazine account of the sinking of U-175 by USCGC Spencer.