Coast Guard Law Enforcement History
Including Prohibition
Two Coast Guard 75-foot patrol boats
trail a liquor-laden
"mother ship" outside U.S. territorial waters during Prohibition.
General Historical Information:
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An illustrated history of the Coast Guard's Diver Program in San Francisco during the height of the Cold War.
Immigration & Migrant Interdiction:
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"The Other Boatlift": Camarioca, Cuba in 1965; a historic photo gallery of the first mass-Cuban boatlift.
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CRS Report for Congress: Cuban Migration to the United States: Policy and Trends, Report No. R40566, 2 June 2009, by Ruth Ellen Wasem.
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CRS Report for Congress: U.S. Immigration Policy on Haitian Migrants. Report No. RS21349, 21 January 2011, by Ruth Ellen Wasem.
Prohibition/Rum War:
- Rum War At Sea, by Malcolm F. Willoughby USCGR (T), 1964 (reprinted 1989)
Oral Histories & Other First-Person Accounts:
- Coast Guard veteran Joseph Etienne, who during his 30-year Coast Guard career served on Prohibition enforcement aboard the Lake-Class cutter CGC Champlain, as a surfman at a lifeboat station, participated in the invasion of Guadalcanal (he was a shipmate of Douglas Munro), and post war assignments in aids to navigation where he got to know Arnold Palmer
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