![]() ![]() ![]() Coast Guardsmen also braved surf and shellfire while delivering amphibious troops during WWII, and they played an outsized role guarding convoys sailing across the Atlantic. During WWII, the Office of Strategic Services’ Maritime Unit, which conducted covert warfare missions at sea, specifically recruited Coasties because of their skills in small-boat handling, swimming, and communications, Runion wrote on his website.Ī third of the unit’s 226 members were Coasties, and their methods, tactics and tools served as the basis for the SEALs and all combat swimmers, he said. “Fewer still have heard of Patrol Bombing Squadron 6, the Coast Guard’s seaplane-bomber detachment, which flew convoy escort missions out of Greenland in World War II.”Įven more interesting: the Coast Guard also helped create the Navy SEALs. “Few Coasties have heard of the Coast Guard Landing Party, a riverine raiding force that operated in the jungles of Vietnam and who, in one spectacular raid, killed 10 enemy soldiers and captured 59,” Runion wrote. ![]()
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