About this title
Storyline
This program chronicles the role of the Coast Guard in war and peace over its 200 years of service to the United States. The program details the Coast Guards critical roles in the Civil War, Spanish American War, the World Wars, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, and the circumstances that prepared it to fulfill the many missions it has grown into.
Country: United States
Type: unscripted
Status: Current
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2003
Also Known As: Battle History of the U. S. Coast Guard
Genres
Plot Keywords
spanish american war
civil war
hypothermia
naval battle
sunken ship
torpedo
year 1941
sonar
reference to franklin d. roosevelt
buoy
depression
fishing boat
sailing ship
uscg cutter eagle
smallpox
flood
year 1927
year 1926
hurricane
seaplane
bootlegging
year 1919
dog sled
spanish flu
espionage act of 1917
submarine
year 1918
naval escort
world war one
reference to woodrow wilson
rms titanic
year 1912
medal
bell
schooner
yar 1876
sea lion
iceberg
whiskey
coast guard cutter
whaling
eskimo
alaska purchase
archival photograph
shipwreck
reference to sumner increase kimball
archive footage
year 1832
smuggling
privateer
first gulf war
haiti
cuba
newspaper headline
eurocopter dauphin
sikorsky hh 53 jolly green giant
uh 1 huey helicopter
sikorsky hh 60j jayhawk
icebreaker
mitsubishi a6m zero
junkers ju 87 stuka
year 1944
plymouth
escort ship
depth charge
cuban missile crisis
reference to fidel castro
refugee
sikorscky r 4 hoverfly
reference to rene gagnon
amphibious landing
d day
lcvp landing craft
new london connecticut
coast guard academy
prohibition
year 1799
rumrunner
iwo jima
lighthouse
reference to mike healy
water rescue
reference to alexander hamilton
Company Credits
Production Co: Lou Reda Productions