Exploring Unalaska - Dutch Harbor (with 15 min. Bonus Segment at End)
Time-stamps:
-More stamps are provided, with additional information, further down-
1. 1:15 General scenery
2. 4:45 Carl E. Moses harbor/“Deadliest Catch”
3. 6:36 Holy Ascension of Our Lord Cathedral (Russian Orthodox) and
7:23 Sitka Spruce Park (National Historic Landmark)
4. 7:49 City of Unalaska Memorial Park
5. 10:17 WWII-related sites and interests
16:07 Unangan Memorial
6. 17:40 Ending/Departure
8. 18:41 Bonus segment: inside the Aleutian WorldWarII National Historic Area & Visitor Center (20:00 begin inside)
--Note: We were unable to visit the Museum of the Aleutians due to administrative issues.
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We couldn’t see Unalaska’s active Makushin Volcano, due to the cloud cover.
Bobbie Lekanoff – She was indispensable during our time there, with her vast knowledge of flora, fauna, history, and current events. The Extra Mile Tours:
Unalaska-Dutch Harbor website:
Driving guide: [denoted in video and below with an tilde (~)]
Visitor’s Guide:
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4:44 -- “The city’s ‘Daily Vessel Check’ to see if one of the famous vessels are in harbor, and where:
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6:36 Cathedral website
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The Bishop’s House: “constructed in San Francisco, shipped piece by piece to Unalaska.” Page 12, ~
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7:23 About Sitka Spruce Park/Pirate Park/Sitka Spruce Plantation:
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7:49 Unalaska Memorial Park and Cemetery
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The monuments:
9:45 Book about the SS Northwestern
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10:16 WW II interest sights, source: ~
10:33, page 10 (Hill 400)
10:49, page 8 (Hill 200)
11:00, page 8 (pillboxes)
12:07 Quoted #: The Unalaska Official 2016 Visitors Guide
13:04, see page 6 (radio station)
13:49, (underground hospital)
14:38, page 8 (dry dock)
14:54, page 5 (torp. shop)
15:24, page 6 (concrete power house)
16:08 Unangax̂ Memorial, Page 10
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18:58 photographs:
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20:14 The museum:
20:31 Theater
20:39 Downstairs
21:41 The Unangax̂
22:58 Upstairs
23:07 Video of upstairs
24:28 Comms/Radar
25:12 Planes and pilots
27:05 Aleutian conditions
27:36 Ft Schwatka
28:18 Diversity tales
28:40 Women in White
29:16 The Aleutian Solution
29:43 to 32:26 Daily life
30:01 Attu Feet
30:10 Aleutian Stare
31:19 “A Woman Behind Every Tree”
31:41 “Time on Their Hands”
32:47 Display cases with found or donated items
32:43 ATTU, 3rd edition (July 1945)
Private Snafu in the Aleutians (animated):
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Alaska at War
The Alaska at War film project was an effort to document events of World War II in Alaska. It was funded by the Alaska Legislature through the Alaska Historical Commission and was supported by the Alaska Historical Society and private subscription. The production work was performed by aurora Films, assisted by a citizen's advisory committee. The production Alaska at War was first shown in public on Alaska Day, October 18th 1986.
This collection was deposited in the University of Alaska Anchorage, Archives and Special collections Department by the Alaska Historical Commission in 1987. Additional papers were presented to the archives by the Alaska Air Command Historian's Office in 1989; and by the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation, in 1990. The University of Alaska Anchorage offered these records to the Alaska State Archives July of 2010. Copyright to the production is retained by the State of Alaska. Reproduction of some photographs, oral history recordings, and film out takes requires the permission of the State of Alaska, Aurora Films, the interviewee, writer, or library of origin.
A special thanks goes to Damon Stuebner of the Alaska State Library, Historical Collections for his technical assistance.
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The Aleutian World War II National Historic Area is a U.S. National Historic Site on Amaknak Island in the Aleutian Island Chain of Alaska. It offers visitors a glimpse of both natural and cultural history, and traces the historic footprints of the U.S. Army Base, Fort Schwatka, located at the Ulakta Head on Mount Ballyhoo. The fort, 800 miles west of Anchorage, the nearest large urban center, was one of four coastal defense posts built to protect Dutch Harbor (crucial back door to the United States) during World War II; Fort Schwatka is also the highest coastal battery ever constructed in the United States. Engineers designed the concrete observation posts and command stations to withstand earthquakes and 100 mph winds. Although today, many of the bunkers and wooden structures of Fort Schwatka have collapsed, the gun mounts and lookouts are among the most intact in the country.
In 1996, the United States Congress designated this a National Historic Area as a way of educating future generations both about the history of the Aleut people, and the role the Aleutian Islands played in the defense of the United States in World War II.
ADAK ALASKA LOWELL THOMAS JR. KING OF THE ALASKAN SEAS KING CRAB MOVIE 87064
Hosted by Lowell Thomas, Jr., King of the Alaskan Seas is a portrait of the people of Adak, Alaska including the Inuit peoples. Made in 1965, the film focuses on the wintertime King Crab harvest, including a visit with the captain and crew of the fishing vessel Deep Sea and the processing center.
Adak is a city located on Adak Island, in the Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 326. It is the westernmost municipality in the United States and the southernmost city in Alaska.The city is the former location of the Adak Army Base and Adak Naval Operating Base, NAVFAC Adak. There are no radio stations within 200 miles (320 km) of Adak; radio can be received in Adak only through satellite or shortwave receivers.
The Aleutian Islands were historically occupied by the Unanga, more commonly known now as the Aleuts. The once heavily populated island was eventually abandoned in the early 19th century as the Aleutian Island hunters followed the Russian fur trade eastward, and famine set in on the Andreanof Island group. However, they continued to hunt and fish actively around the island over the years, until World War II broke out. Adak Army installations allowed U.S. forces to mount a successful offensive against the Japanese-held islands of Kiska and Attu. After the war, Adak was developed as a naval air station, playing an important role during the Cold War as a submarine surveillance center. Large earthquakes rocked the island in 1957, 1964 and 1977.
Since World War II, the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard developed facilities and recreation opportunities at Adak. At its peak, Adak had a college, a McDonald's restaurant, movie theater, roller skating rink, swimming pool, ski lodge, bowling alleys, skeet range, auto hobby shop, photo lab, and racquetball and tennis courts. A new $18-million hospital was built in 1990, just seven years prior to the closure of the station. By March 2003, six years after the closure of the station, most of these facilities had closed.
Lowell Jackson Thomas, Jr. (born October 6, 1923) is a film and television producer who collaborated with his father, the accomplished reporter and author Lowell Thomas, on several projects before becoming an Alaskan State Senator in the early 1970s, and later the third Lieutenant Governor of Alaska (1974–1978). In the 1980s, he owned and operated Talkeetna Air Taxi, an Alaska bush flying service.
He graduated from the Taft School in 1942 and went on to Dartmouth College, before joining the United States Army Air Corps.[1]
Lowell Thomas, Jr. was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi chapter).
Invited with his father, Lowell Thomas Sr., by the Tibetan government to make a film there in 1949 with the hope that their reports would help persuade the U.S. government to defend Tibet against the Chinese. The trip lasted 400 days, and the father and son were the last Westerners to reach Lhasa before the Chinese. CBS did not broadcast the resultant film, Expedition to Lhasa, Tibet, until years later, but his book about the expedition, Out of This World, published in 1950 became a bestseller.[2]
In 2005, the Dalai Lama bestowed the International Campaign for Tibet's Light of Truth Award on Lowell Jr.
Long an inhabitant of Alaska he is best known for his interest in the Arctic Research Labs based in Barrow, AK. Much as his father had done he ventured into the harsh environment of the ice islands where research was done by scientists on the Arctic Ocean and its atmosphere including the Auroras. He published his adventure in National Geographic magazine in 1965.
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NOME, ALASKA • Life on the Edge of the Earth
Nome, Alaska is a remote bush village on the shores of the Bering Sea. In this video we are taking a tour from the Mayor Richard Beneville and Nome Discovery Tours. We also take our rented Jeep from Dredge No. 7 Inn for drive around town to show you some of the sights. A trip to a unique destination is not complete without sharing some prices from the grocery store. Before our evening activities Ben make a quick fishing stop to catch some pink salmon.
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Aleutian Islands | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:48 1 Geology
00:02:47 2 Geography
00:06:06 3 Climate
00:08:13 4 Flora
00:09:25 5 Fauna
00:10:37 6 Economy
00:11:16 7 Transportation
00:11:34 8 Demographics
00:12:10 9 History
00:12:19 9.1 Prehistory
00:13:03 9.2 Russian period
00:15:42 9.2.1 Orthodox Christian heritage
00:16:46 9.3 U.S. possession
00:17:33 9.3.1 World War II
00:18:52 9.4 Recent developments
00:19:18 10 Nuclear testing
00:19:44 11 Russian Aleutians
00:20:15 12 See also
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- Socrates
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The Aleutian Islands (; Russian: Алеутские острова; Aleut: Tanam Unangaa, literally Land of the Aleuts, possibly from Chukchi aliat, island) are a chain of 14 large volcanic islands and 55 smaller ones belonging to both the U.S. state of Alaska and the Russian federal subject of Kamchatka Krai. They form part of the Aleutian Arc in the Northern Pacific Ocean, occupying an area of 6,821 sq mi (17,666 km2) and extending about 1,200 mi (1,900 km) westward from the Alaska Peninsula toward the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, and mark a dividing line between the Bering Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. Crossing longitude 180°, at which point east and west longitude end, the archipelago contains both the westernmost part of the United States by longitude (Amatignak Island) and the easternmost by longitude (Semisopochnoi Island). The westernmost U.S. island in real terms, however, is Attu Island, west of which runs the International Date Line. While nearly all the archipelago is part of Alaska and is usually considered as being in the Alaskan Bush, at the extreme western end, the small, geologically related Commander Islands belong to Russia.
The islands, with their 57 volcanoes, form the northernmost part of the Pacific Ring of Fire. Physiographically, they are a distinct section of the larger Pacific Border province, which in turn is part of the larger Pacific Mountain System physiographic division.
These Islands are most known for the battles and skirmishes that occurred there during the Aleutian Islands Campaign of World War II. It was one of only two attacks on the United States during that war.
Though the Earth be Moved-The United States Office of Civil Defense and the 1964 Alaska Earthquake
A documentary chronicling the first 72 hours after the 1964 Alaska Earthquake and the response to the disaster by the United States Office of Civil Defense, U.S. Military, and local, state, and federal officials, both civilian and military. Includes extensive archival footage of the earthquake and aftermath. (ASL-0052-Film_16mm)
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Alaska ( ( listen); Aleut: Alax̂sxax̂; Inupiaq: Alaskaq; Russian: Аляска, translit. Alyaska) is a U.S. state in the northwest extremity of North America. The Canadian administrative divisions of British Columbia and Yukon border the state to the east, its most extreme western part is Attu Island, and it has a maritime border with Russia (Chukotka Autonomous Okrug) to the west across the Bering Strait. To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort seas—the southern parts of the Arctic Ocean. The Pacific Ocean lies to the south and southwest. It is the largest state in the United States by area and the
seventh largest subnational division in the world. In addition, it is the 3rd least populous and the most sparsely populated of the 50 United States; nevertheless, it is by far the most populous territory located mostly north of the 60th parallel in North America: its population—estimated at 738,432 by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2015— is more than quadruple the combined populations of Northern Canada and Greenland. Approximately half of Alaska's residents live within the Anchorage metropolitan area. Alaska's economy is dominated by the fishing, natural gas, and oil industries, resources which it has in abundance. Military bases and tourism are also a significant part of the economy.
The United States purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire on March 30, 1867, for 7.2 million U.S. dollars at approximately two cents per acre ($4.74/km2). The area went through several administrative changes before becoming organized as a territory on May 11, 1912. It was admitted as the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959.
Alaska | Wikipedia audio article
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Alaska ( ( listen); Aleut: Alax̂sxax̂; Inupiaq: Alaskaq; Russian: Аляска, translit. Alyaska) is a U.S. state in the northwest extremity of North America. The Canadian administrative divisions of British Columbia and Yukon border the state to the east, its most extreme western part is Attu Island, and it has a maritime border with Russia (Chukotka Autonomous Okrug) to the west across the Bering Strait. To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort seas—the southern parts of the Arctic Ocean. The Pacific Ocean lies to the south and southwest. It is the largest state in the United States by area and the
seventh largest subnational division in the world. In addition, it is the 3rd least populous and the most sparsely populated of the 50 United States; nevertheless, it is by far the most populous territory located mostly north of the 60th parallel in North America: its population—estimated at 738,432 by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2015— is more than quadruple the combined populations of Northern Canada and Greenland. Approximately half of Alaska's residents live within the Anchorage metropolitan area. Alaska's economy is dominated by the fishing, natural gas, and oil industries, resources which it has in abundance. Military bases and tourism are also a significant part of the economy.
The United States purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire on March 30, 1867, for 7.2 million U.S. dollars at approximately two cents per acre ($4.74/km2). The area went through several administrative changes before becoming organized as a territory on May 11, 1912. It was admitted as the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959.
Allied Powers (World War II) | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:20 1 Origins and creation
00:05:56 2 Major affiliated state combatants
00:07:08 2.1 United Kingdom
00:07:17 2.1.1 War declared
00:07:44 2.1.1.1 Colonies and dependencies
00:07:53 2.1.1.1.1 In Africa
00:08:53 2.1.1.1.2 In the Americas
00:09:18 2.1.1.1.3 In Asia
00:11:00 2.1.1.1.4 In Europe
00:12:21 2.2 China
00:14:46 2.2.1 Factions
00:14:54 2.2.1.1 Nationalists
00:19:26 2.2.1.2 Communists
00:21:43 2.3 France
00:21:51 2.3.1 War declared
00:25:39 2.3.2 Colonies and dependencies
00:25:48 2.3.2.1 In Africa
00:26:19 2.3.2.2 In Asia and Oceania
00:27:14 2.3.2.3 In the Americas
00:27:30 2.4 Soviet Union
00:27:39 2.4.1 Outbreak
00:29:12 2.4.2 History
00:33:20 2.5 United States
00:33:29 2.5.1 War justifications
00:34:54 2.5.2 History
00:37:06 2.5.3 Colonies and dependencies
00:37:16 2.5.3.1 In the Americas and the Pacific
00:37:50 2.5.3.2 In Asia
00:38:20 3 Other affiliated state combatants
00:38:31 3.1 Australia
00:39:17 3.2 Belgium
00:40:39 3.2.1 Colonies and dependencies
00:41:23 3.3 Brazil
00:42:59 3.4 Canada
00:43:36 3.5 Cuba
00:44:33 3.6 Czechoslovakia
00:45:19 3.7 Dominican Republic
00:47:37 3.8 Greece
00:48:54 3.9 Luxembourg
00:49:35 3.10 Mexico
00:50:48 3.11 Netherlands
00:51:45 3.11.1 Colonies and dependencies
00:52:51 3.12 New Zealand
00:53:58 3.13 Norway
00:55:33 3.14 Poland
00:58:37 3.15 South Africa
00:58:59 3.16 Yugoslavia
00:59:54 3.16.1 Resistance factions
01:00:55 3.16.1.1 Partisans
01:01:46 3.16.1.2 Chetniks
01:02:40 4 Client states
01:02:49 4.1 British
01:02:57 4.1.1 Egypt
01:04:15 4.1.2 India (British Raj)
01:05:20 4.1.3 Iran
01:05:28 4.1.4 Iraq
01:05:36 4.2 Soviet
01:05:44 4.2.1 Bulgaria
01:06:35 4.2.2 Central Asian Republics
01:07:06 4.2.3 Mongolia
01:07:36 4.2.4 Poland
01:07:57 4.2.5 Romania
01:09:18 4.2.6 Tannu Tuva
01:09:41 5 Co-belligerent state combatants
01:09:52 5.1 Italy
01:11:46 6 Associated power
01:11:56 6.1 Albania
01:12:24 7 Self-proclaimed allies
01:12:34 7.1 Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea
01:14:40 8 United Nations
01:14:49 8.1 Declaration by United Nations
01:15:10 8.2 Alliance growing
01:17:34 8.3 Charter of the United Nations
01:18:50 9 Timeline of Allied nations entering the war
01:19:18 9.1 1939
01:20:41 9.2 1940
01:21:27 9.3 1941
01:23:08 9.4 Provisional governments or governments-in exile that declared war against the Axis in 1941
01:23:41 9.5 1942
01:24:07 9.6 1943
01:24:39 9.7 1944
01:25:05 9.8 1945
01:26:35 10 See also
01:27:03 11 Footnotes
01:27:12 12 Bibliography
01:28:33 13 Further reading
01:29:07 14 External links
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The Allies of World War II, called the United Nations from the 1 January 1942 declaration, were the countries that together opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War (1939–1945). The Allies promoted the alliance as a means to control German, Japanese and Italian aggression.
At the start of the war on 1 September 1939, the Allies consisted of France, Poland and the United Kingdom, as well as their dependent states, such as British India. Within days they were joined by the independent Dominions of the British Commonwealth: Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. After the start of the German invasion of North Europe until the Balkan Campaign, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, and Yugoslavia joined the Allies. After first having cooperated with Germany in invading Poland whilst remaining neutral in the Allied-Axis conflict, the Soviet Union perforce joined the Allies in June 1941 after being invaded by Germany. The United States provided war materiel and money all along, and officially joined in December 1941 after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. China had already been in a prolonged war with Japan since the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 1937, but officially joined ...
Alaska | Wikipedia audio article
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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Alaska ( (listen); Aleut: Alax̂sxax̂; Inupiaq: Alaskaq; Russian: Аляска, translit. Alyaska) is a U.S. state in the northwest extremity of North America. The Canadian administrative divisions of British Columbia and Yukon border the state to the east, its most extreme western part is Attu Island, and it has a maritime border with Russia (Chukotka Autonomous Okrug) to the west across the Bering Strait. To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort seas—the southern parts of the Arctic Ocean. The Pacific Ocean lies to the south and southwest. It is the largest state in the United States by area and the
seventh largest subnational division in the world. In addition, it is the 3rd least populous and the most sparsely populated of the 50 United States; nevertheless, it is by far the most populous territory located mostly north of the 60th parallel in North America: its population—estimated at 738,432 by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2015— is more than quadruple the combined populations of Northern Canada and Greenland. Approximately half of Alaska's residents live within the Anchorage metropolitan area. Alaska's economy is dominated by the fishing, natural gas, and oil industries, resources which it has in abundance. Military bases and tourism are also a significant part of the economy.
The United States purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire on March 30, 1867, for 7.2 million U.S. dollars at approximately two cents per acre ($4.74/km2). The area went through several administrative changes before becoming organized as a territory on May 11, 1912. It was admitted as the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959.
Tristan da Cunha | Wikipedia audio article
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Tristan da Cunha (), colloquially Tristan, is both a remote group of volcanic islands in the south Atlantic Ocean and the main island of that group. It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world which lies proximately 1,511 miles (2,432 km) off the coast of Cape Town in South Africa, 1,343 miles (2,161 km) from Saint Helena and 2,166 miles (3,486 km) off the coast from the Falkland Islands. The territory consists of the main island, Tristan da Cunha, which has a north–south length of 11.27 kilometres (7.00 mi) and an area of 98 square kilometres (38 sq mi), and the smaller, uninhabited Nightingale Islands and the wildlife reserves of Inaccessible and Gough islands. As of October 2018, the main island has 250 permanent inhabitants who all carry British Overseas Territories citizenship. The other islands are uninhabited, except for the personnel of a weather station on Gough Island.
Tristan da Cunha is part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. This includes Saint Helena and also near-equatorial Ascension Island, which lies some 1,741 miles (2,802 km) to the north of Tristan. There is no airstrip of any kind on the main island meaning the only way of traveling in and out of Tristan is by boat, a six-day trip from South Africa.
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Tristan da Cunha (), colloquially Tristan, is both a remote group of volcanic islands in the south Atlantic Ocean and the main island of that group. It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world which lies proximately 1,511 miles (2,432 km) off the coast of Cape Town in South Africa, 1,343 miles (2,161 km) from Saint Helena and 2,166 miles (3,486 km) off the coast from the Falkland Islands. The territory consists of the main island, Tristan da Cunha, which has a north–south length of 11.27 kilometres (7.00 mi) and an area of 98 square kilometres (38 sq mi), and the smaller, uninhabited Nightingale Islands and the wildlife reserves of Inaccessible and Gough islands. As of October 2018, the main island has 250 permanent inhabitants who all carry British Overseas Territories citizenship. The other islands are uninhabited, except for the personnel of a weather station on Gough Island.
Tristan da Cunha is part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. This includes Saint Helena and also near-equatorial Ascension Island, which lies some 1,741 miles (2,802 km) to the north of Tristan. There is no airstrip of any kind on the main island meaning the only way of traveling in and out of Tristan is by boat, a six-day trip from South Africa.
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00:01:14 1 Early history
00:02:13 1.1 United States Revenue Cutter Service
00:05:17 1.2 United States Lifesaving Service
00:08:25 1.3 Coast Guard Academy
00:10:02 1.4 Creation of the modern Coast Guard
00:10:43 2 World War I
00:10:53 2.1 Preparation
00:12:14 2.2 Declaration of war
00:14:21 3 The 1920s
00:14:31 3.1 Prohibition
00:15:21 3.2 1927 Mississippi River flood
00:16:06 4 The 1930s
00:16:16 4.1 Increasing regulation of merchant shipping
00:17:33 4.2 Carl von Paulsen rescue
00:18:10 5 The 1940s
00:18:20 5.1 World War II
00:26:48 5.1.1 Douglas Munro
00:27:32 5.2 Bermuda Sky Queen rescue
00:29:39 5.3 Enlisted training center
00:30:10 6 The 1950s
00:30:20 6.1 Korean War
00:31:10 6.2 iPendleton/i rescue
00:33:34 7 The 1960s
00:33:44 7.1 Transfer to the Department of Transportation
00:34:13 7.2 The Racing Stripe
00:34:56 7.3 Vietnam War
00:40:19 8 The 1970s
00:40:29 8.1 The New Guard
00:42:37 8.2 End of ocean stations, beginning of the 200 nautical miles (370 km) limit
00:43:24 8.3 The Kudirka incident
00:45:44 8.4 The Rescue of AF586
00:48:05 9 The 1980s
00:48:15 9.1 The iBlackthorn/i Tragedy
00:48:59 9.2 iPrinsendam/i rescue
00:50:08 9.3 iMarine Electric/i sinking
00:51:09 9.4 The Mariel boatlift
00:52:09 9.5 The end of the lightships
00:53:16 9.6 Drug War at Sea Escalates
00:54:43 9.7 Libyan attack on LORAN Station Lampedusa
00:55:26 9.8 Exxon Valdez oil spill
00:57:27 10 The 1990s
00:57:37 10.1 '90 Operation Desert Shield
00:59:16 10.2 '91 Operation Desert Storm
01:01:16 10.3 Operation Buckshot, The Great Flood of '93
01:04:05 10.4 1994 Cuban boat rescues
01:04:53 10.5 1999 Kosovo
01:05:49 11 The 2000s
01:06:09 11.1 Transfer to the Department of Homeland Security
01:06:55 11.2 Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
01:10:00 11.3 Hurricane Katrina
01:11:20 11.4 HC-130 #1705 crash
01:12:22 12 The 2010s
01:12:31 12.1 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
01:12:41 12.2 CG-6535 crash
01:13:11 12.3 The anti-drug mission and the budget
01:13:47 12.4 Icebreakers
01:14:36 12.5 U.S. Navy sailors detained by Iran
01:15:29 13 Future
01:17:48 14 Frank LoBiondo Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2018
01:18:40 15 Coast Guard Museums
01:18:48 16 See also
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The history of the United States Coast Guard goes back to the United States Revenue Cutter Service, which was founded on 4 August 1790 as part of the Department of the Treasury. The Revenue Cutter Service and the United States Life-Saving Service were merged to become the Coast Guard per 14 U.S.C. § 1 which states: The Coast Guard as established January 28, 1915, shall be a military service and a branch of the armed forces of the United States at all times. In 1939, the United States Lighthouse Service was merged into the Coast Guard. The Coast Guard itself was moved to the Department of Transportation in 1967, and on 25 February 2003 it became part of the Department of Homeland Security. However, under 14 U.S.C. § 3 as amended by section 211 of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2006, upon the declaration of war and when Congress so directs in the declaration, or when the President directs, the Coast Guard operates as a service in the Department of the Navy.
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Saint Croix () is an island in the Caribbean Sea, and a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States.
St. Croix is the largest of the islands in the territory. However, the territory's capital, Charlotte Amalie, is located on Saint Thomas. As of the 2010 United States Census, St. Croix's population was 50,601, its highest point is Mount Eagle, at 355 metres (1,165 ft). St. Croix's nickname is Twin City, for its two towns on opposite ends of the island, Frederiksted on the western end and Christiansted on the east.
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Saint Croix () is an island in the Caribbean Sea, and a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States.
St. Croix is the largest of the islands in the territory. However, the territory's capital, Charlotte Amalie, is located on Saint Thomas. As of the 2010 United States Census, St. Croix's population was 50,601, its highest point is Mount Eagle, at 355 metres (1,165 ft). St. Croix's nickname is Twin City, for its two towns on opposite ends of the island, Frederiksted on the western end and Christiansted on the east.