#coast guard wwII

[marvelousmovies]

Normandy Invasion - US Coast Guard Report (1944)

[todaysdocument]

Tanks to the Marshalls -- Special Delivery

Record Group 26: Records of the U.S. Coast GuardSeries: Photographs of Activities, Facilities, and PersonalitiesFile Unit: Art by Digemma through Frankle

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From:

Public Relations Division

U.S. Coast Guard

Washington, D.C.

Thank to the Marshalls -- Special Delivery

Coast Guardsmen, aboard an invasion transport, lift a tank clear of the deck and swing it over the side to landing craft preparatory to running it to the beaches of Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshalls. This sketch of war in the Pacific is by Coast Guard combat artist Bruno Figallo, of Washington, D.C., an invasion veteran.

In rewriting caption please mention "Coast Guard."

[victusinveritas]

A bit of #Caturday history: Salty, mascot of the San Diego Coast Guard Air Station. In 1945, she was the first cat to participate in an air rescue mission when she and her kitten stowed away on a plane just before it took off to rescue a pilot who had gone down at sea.

[dronescapesvideos]

US Coast Guard Hall PH-3 flying boat firing a M1919 Browning machine gun in 1943.

[theworldatwar]

Members of the British Home guard take their turn watching the sky for any sign of enemy aircraft - England 1940

[lonestarbattleship]

"This image depicts artwork of an OS2U floatplane performing an aerial attack on a submarine. A U.S. Coast Guard amphibian plane sweeps down from the sky and scores a direct bomb hit on a surfaced nazi U-boat."

Artwork by Hunter Wood.

Date: June 18, 1943

NARA: 205575756

[taraross-1787]

TDIH: USCG sinks German submarine U-352

On this day in 1942, a United States Coast Guard cutter sinks a German submarine just off the coast of North Carolina. Dozens of Germans are captured.

Yes, you read that correctly. A German submarine was patrolling the east coast of the United States during the early months of World War II.  The Germans captured that day were the first foreign prisoners of war to be held on American soil since the War of 1812.

Trouble began on the afternoon of May 9.

U.S.C.G. Icarus was then traveling from Staten Island, New York, to Key West, Florida. She was equipped with relatively obsolete sound detection gear. Nevertheless, at about 4:20 p.m., she picked up a “mushy” sound contact off her port bow.

The story continues here: https://www.taraross.com/post/tdih-uscg-icarus

[catpartyletsgo]

Herman the Coast Guard Cat

The WWII Coast Guard at the port of Baltimore decided they needed a mouser aboard their navy vessel, and soon found Herman, known as an “expert mouser” and hired him to keep the ship free of mice and rats. Herman then officially became a member of the U.S. Armed Forces at eight months old. “It is a good thing to get rid of rats in general,” Col. Richard P. Strong, Medical Corps, United States…

[heswrongshesright]

F35 Program & Defense Contractor NotK_US joins to talk Stolen Valor and legal cases - HWSR Ep 55

In this episode 55 'F35 Program & Defense Contractor NotK_US joins to talk Stolen Valor and legal cases' of the He's Wrong She's Right podcast, hosts Andrew and Nona welcome their first virtual guest, known as NotK_US on Twitter. The episode dives into a range of topics including various military experiences, legal cases of stolen valor, and the intricacies of defense contracting. The guest shares his background as a defense contractor, recounts stories of working for the military, and discusses the process of investigating false military claims. The episode also touches on widely discussed cases like that of Mike Glover, providing insights and opinions on the legal and social implications.

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[todaysdocument]

Christmas Eve in the Pacific

Record Group 26: Records of the U.S. Coast GuardSeries: Photographs of Activities, Facilities, and PersonalitiesFile Unit: Art by Digemma through Frankle

This image depicts artwork of a Coast Guardsman manning a gun at night, drawn by Coast Guard Combat Artist John J. Floherty Jr. (Alt. Name of artist - John F. Floherty).

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From:

Public Relations Division

U.S. Coast Guard

Washington, D.C.

Christmas Eve in the Pacific

The star of peace gleams hopefully over the guns of war in this Christmas drawing by Coast Guard combat artist John J. Floherty, Chief Specialist aboard a Coast Guard-manned LST somewhere in the Pacific. A gunner stands his lonely vigil, his eyes alert for signs of the enemy, his thoughts drifting over the thousands of miles of restless sea to his loved ones at home. Coast Guardsman Floherty's home is at Port Washington, N. Y.

[victusinveritas]

U.S. Army Nurses sunbathing next to a twin Bofors 40 mm gun on a Coast Guard troop ship returning back to the United States from Europe, 1945.

[arte-e-homoerotismo]

O Saipan Press Club abriu suas portas na ilha das Marianas. Fazendo uma pausa entre as fotos da invasão de Saipan estão o fotógrafo de combate da Guarda Costeira Ed Latcham (à direita) de Haddonfield, NJ, e o fotógrafo do Corpo de Fuzileiros Navais dos EUA, Sergt. William Fitch. Latcham perdeu sua jaqueta da Guarda Costeira na ação emocionante da invasão e pegou emprestada uma com a marcação do USMC.

(Segunda Guerra Mundial)

The Saipan Press Club has opened its doors on the embattled island in the Marianas. Pausing there between shots of the Saipan invasion are Coast Guard Combat Photographer Ed Latcham (right) of Haddonfield, N.J. and U.S. Marine Corps Photographer Sergt. William Fitch. Latcham lost his Coast Guard jacket in the stirring action of the invasion and borrowed one with the USMC marking.

(WWII)

[theworldatwar]

Men from the British Home Guard undergo weapons training in a church yard on the South Coast of England - 1940

[usnatarchives]

We’re honored to highlight a special archival record this #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth for #AskAnArchivist. This is a photo of our archivist Alex’s great-grandfather, a commander during #WWII, and the highest ranking Filipino officer in the U.S. Coast Guard!

[fdrlibrary]

A Woman’s War

Personnel shortages led the military to enlist more than 300,000 women volunteers during World War II. All of the military services created posters that encouraged women to join up. Thousands were recruited to serve as nurses. But many more chose to enter one of the women’s auxiliaries formed by the services.

Over 150,000 served in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC/WAAC) in jobs ranging from telephone, radio, and teletype operator to cryptographer, medical technician, sheet metal worker, and aircraft mechanic.

The Navy recruited over 80,000 WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service). They worked as clerks, secretaries, cryptologists, air traffic controllers, meteorologists, and translators.

The Marine Corps Women’s Reserve, established in February 1943, enrolled 23,000 women during the war.

While the Coast Guard Women’s Reserve enlisted more than 10,000 between 1942 and 1946.

Like some of the wartime posters that encouraged women to the join the industrial workforce, military recruitment posters sometimes offered mixed messages. Prevailing biases regarding gender roles dictated that women not serve in combat roles.

Learn more about this collection: https://fdr.artifacts.archives.gov/advancedsearch/Objects/invno%3AMO%202005.13.17*/images?page=1

Follow along throughout 2024 as we feature more #TheArtOfWar WWII posters from our Digital Artifact Collection.

[iamdispleased]

What’s Happening With Lumon, MDR, O&D, and Gemma

I posted this on Reddit. Now, I’m posting it on here. Buckle up, cowboys.

Spoilers: Severance, The Lexington Letters

My theory is that Lumon is a sort of shadow government in expansion. The Lumon building is a military base/bunker. While not the only thing Lumon does, Lumon makes weapons, particularly bombs. They probably made or are making nuclear weapons. O&D designs the weapons and run Lumon’s equivalent to the ENIAC. MDR locate where to use the weapons and deploy them, similar to radarmen. I also think Lumon used MDR to cause Gemma’s car wreck.

02/09/25 Edit: I just read Ricken’s book, The You You Are, and it totally decimated my Gemma theory. So, never mind about that.

Petey’s map of the Lumon building heavily resembles a military base or bunker. The technology and aesthetic they use gives me old school military/N.A.S.A. vibes. The way it’s shot when Mark pulls out his locker’s drawer reminds me of a scene in a war movie or flashback— especially with the way his watch looks like a compass.

As I said, MDR are similar to radarmen. Radarmen first appeared during WWII in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard. Part of the radarman’s duties was to detect and track vessels through radar equipment, find target locations for attacks (like bombings), and operate the Identification Friend or Foe system, or IFF.

The IFF system, also known as the Mark Identification Friend or Foe system, is an electronic system developed during WWII that military forces used to identify whether an aircraft or vessel detected on radar was friendly or an enemy. This could be why MDR focuses on “scary numbers”. The “scary numbers” represent enemies.

A macrodata refiner’s job description is to “remove impurities from data and reorganize it in its purest form”, and at first I thought MDR was creating atomic bombs specifically, because what is more pure than the atom? But now I could see this as MDR is locating Lumon’s enemies (imperfections) and bombing them (removing them); therefore, making the world/society (data) pure. By ‘pure’, I mean the, “Cleanse the world of our sins,” type pure.

Since radarmen are specifically related to the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard, it would make sense as to why Irv is told his outie can swim gracefully and likes the sound of radar, which is what he named his dog after. In the 1970s, the radarman’s duties was split into a few separate jobs. The one MDR seems to resemble the most are Operation Specialist.

O&D design the weapons MDR uses, and seem to be running a machine like the ENIAC. The ENIAC is a big ole computer developed during WWII. It performed calculations for artillery firing tables, the construction of the hydrogen bomb, atomic energy, thermal ignition, and more.

MDR’s file names also clue in on this, with pretty much all of them having events associated with, wars, uprisings and the like.

Pacoima, a file Irv works on, is the name of a neighborhood in Los Angeles. A few screw-ups from radarmen have occurred there, like the 1957 Pacoima mid-air collision.

Moonbeam was the name of a Mustang fighter-bomber aircraft built during WWII.

In the Lexington Letters, Peg, a former MDR employee, thinks that her finishing the Lexington file caused one of Lumon’s competitors trucks to explode, ending with two employees being *burned* alive in the truck and four bystanders’ deaths. The company’s name was Dorner Therapeutics.

I believe Gemma ‘died’ in that accident. The connection to a therapeutics company could be the reason Miss Casey is a wellness councilor.

In 2x02, Mark says that Gemma can’t be alive, because he had to identify her burnt body. My guess is that Gemma’s body was burnt, but Lumon used some sort regenerative technology to heal her. Since Lumon ended up causing Peg to die in a car crash, I wonder if Mark took her job. (Maybe she didn’t die at all, and is in a Miss Casey situation.)

The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first major battles of the American Revolutionary War. If the Lexington file involved Gemma’s accident, then that was the start of Mark working for Lumon. It makes sense for the start of Mark’s journey to be titled Lexington, the start of the Revolutionary War.

One final note— the actual severance chip itself looks like a bomb. Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if they are bombs.

And fin.

(I have just started my first rewatch of Severance, and plan to examine it deeper, but I wanted to throw this out there before it’s Too Late.)

tldr: Lumon is a growing shadow government. The Lumon building is a military base/bunker. O&D’s job is to design weapons, while MDR’s job is to locate where to use them and deploy them.

Edit: I rewatched the scene where Mark and Devon are talking in 02x02, and Mark didn’t outrightly say that Gemma’s body burned. He said, “If Ricken died and burned, I’d be sad for you.” I still take this as Gemma’s body burned, though. Mark could have just said, “If Ricken died, I’d be sad for you.” So, the addition of, “… and burned,” feels super specific. Still— my b.