U.S .Coast Guardsmen with captured Japanese soldiers at Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, South Pacific; February 1944. 


Ride on a boat

U.S. Army nurses sunbathe beside a 40-mm anti-aircraft gun and its crew aboard a Coast Guard-manned troop transport, returning to the States.

Hope they made it safely back

U.S. Coast Guardsmen ferrying supplies past an LCM-3 (Landing Craft Mechanized) which has taken a direct hit at Tarawa  Atoll, north-east of Australia, in the Central Pacific Ocean; October, 1943. 