U.S. COAST GUARD ARTICLES

History of US Coast Guard Air Station Biloxi, Mississippi; 1934-1947

History of Rescue Operations from USCG Air Station St. Petersburg, Florida; 1935-1976

The Final Patrol of US Coast Guard Patrol Boat CG-245; 1935

Battle Practice; on the USS Mojave CG in 1939

USCGC Mojave and the SS Manhattan; 1941

"You Have to Go Out, You Don't Have to Come Back" (with J.R. Lee)

Sinking of the US Coast Guard Cutter Magnolia; 1945

Aviation Machinist Mate School USCG Air Station San Diego, California; 1946

US Coast Guard PBY - 5A  48314; 1946-1948

The Rescue of Jack Mutton by the crew of PBY-5A 48314; August 1947

Tragedy and Rescue - The Crash of Sabena Airways DC-4 Near Gander, Newfoundland; September, 1946.  Lots of photos, may take a long time to load.

Aerial Resupply of USCG LORAN Station Battle Harbour, Labrador; June 1947.  Lots of photos, may take a long time to load.

Air-Sea Rescue at OCEAN STATION CHARLIE; Including the Rescue of the passengers and crew of the Boeing 314 Clipper "The Bermuda Sky Queen"; 1947

Article from "The Quarterdeck Log" on the BIBB and the Bermuda Sky Queen.

Photographs by Michael Dolman, one of the survivors of the Bermuda Sky Queen.

Long Hours at USCG Air Station St. Petersburg, Florida; 1948

Biscayne Bay Professionalism; 1950 (with J.R. Lee)

A Tragic Good Friday; 1952 (with J.R. Lee)

   

 U.S. AIR FORCE ARTICLES

Flight "D", 7th Air Rescue Squadron, Dhahran Air Field, Saudi Arabia; 1949-1951

Photo Album for this article. Lots of photos, may take a long time to load.

The Aluminium and Magnesium Overcast - Flying the B-36 with the 6th Bomb Wing, Walker Air Force Base; 1955-1957

Munitions Maintenance Squadrons in the US Air Force; 1960-1966

Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Incidents; 1965-1969

A Year in Vietnam with US Air Force Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD); 1966-1967

Photo Album for this article. Lots of photos, may take a long time to load.
 
 

Many of you have asked for hard copies of the articles.
Now you can find them all in one place!
Go to my Cafe Press store and buy the book "Life Guard"
http://www.cafepress.com/DGTP.391856998
It's 336 pages with all the photos and stories you'll find here!
Here's what the  cover will look like:

 BONUS PAGES!

Read the articles I wrote for the Thule AFB Greenland newspaper, "The Thule Times"!
My Grandson was the assistant editor, and asked for some info about the USCG and USAF in Greenland, as he said, "Back in the Day".  These are in .pdf format, and you'll need Acrobat Reader to read them.

If you haven't seen an official base e-newspaper, they are pretty interesting overall as well.

To download these articles, right click on the link and select "Save target as..."

THULE TIMES 1 SEP 2001 (About USCG Operations around Greenland in WWII and the late '40s)

THULE TIMES 1 OCT 2001 (About BW-1, Narssarssuaq, Greenland)

THULE TIMES 1 NOV 2001 (Strategic Air Command Operations at Thule, 1956)

THULE TIMES 1 APR 2002 (Reporting my Grandson's wedding there on the ice cap - we sure didn't have weddings in Greenland when I was there, back in the day)

SPECIAL FEATURE!

The experiences of my Uncle, Aunt and Cousins as Prisoners of the Japanese in the Philippines, Japan and Korea during WWII.