Coast Guard Signalman First Class Douglas A. Munro protects withdrawing Marines at Guadalcanal. During WWII the U.S. Coast Guard performed a wide variety of duties. One of the more important tasks was manning amphibious craft for the U.S. Navy. It was

A demolition crew of the Sixth Marine Division watched as one of their dynamite charges took out a Japanese cave on Okinawa.

A fallen U.S. soldier

Original caption reads: Admiral Nimitz, on July 28, 1944, explains U.S. naval strategy for (left to right) General MacArthur, President Roosevelt and Admiral Leahy.

The right door gunner of a Navy armed gunship prepared for a firing run over a Viet Cong ambush site in the Mekong Delta. The helicopter was answering a distress call from the burning river patrol boat (PBR) which had been hit by recoilless rifle fire m

USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) says Happy Holidays to the skies, December 1994.

The ASROC Fire-Control System is the first shipboard installation of a digital computer. The computer receives electrical signals of target course and speed, wind direction and speed, and attack ship course, speed, pitch, and roll. These signals are used to compute future position of a target, launcher angle, and distance a missile will fly. The ASROC Fire-Control System was developed for the Navy under the technical direction of the U.S. Naval Ordnance Test Station, China Lake and Pasadena, California, by Librascope Division, General Precision, Inc, Glendale, California. June 1960. U.S. Navy Photo

Corporal Alvin Tony Ghazlo, senior bayonet and unarmed combat instructor at Montford Point, North Carolina, disarms his assistant, Private Ernest Judo Jones, taken in the 1940s.

Commodore Commandant Ellsworth Price Bertholf, USCG. Photograph was taken in 1898 when Bertohalf was a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service and a member of the Jarvis Overland Expedition.

Naval Reserve Captain Edmond J. Moran receives urgent and specific instructions from Supreme Allied Commander Europe General Dwight D Eisenhower on board the destroyer USS Thompson after D-Day. The general ordered Moran back to the United States for more supplies and equipment to keep the invasion going. Photo courtesy of Edmond J. Moran, Jr.

Vice Admiral Morton L. Deyo, U.S. Navy. Admiral Deyo was twice a winner of the Navy Cross.

President George H. Bush gives a rather startled look after an unannounced F-14 creates a sonic boom overhead on the U.S.S. Forrestal, December 1, 1989.

Marine Captain Foss, who shot down 26 Japanese aircraft, takes a breather on Guadalcanal in 1943.

Yeoman First Class Joy Bright Hancock, 1918. Her naval career spanned both World Wars and culminated in her assignment as the third director of the Waves. She retired from the Navy in the rank of Captain.