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Title: Coast Guard history
Identifier: coastguardhistor00unit (find matches)
Year: 1958 (1950s)
Authors: United States. Coast Guard. Public Information Division
Subjects: United States. Coast Guard
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : United States Coast Guard, Public Information Division
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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A Cod^t Guard flying boat brings a stricken seaman to a marine hospital. Aviation extends a helping hand Aviation has greatly extended the helping hand of the Coast Guard. Rescue operations that were once restricted to coastal waters because of the limited range of earlier equipment, can now be carried out on the ocean. Giant Marlin fiying boats can go 1,500 miles from shore, land on the ocean to pick up survivors of an accident or someone from a ship who needs medical attention ashore. Another type craft that has increased the Coast Guard's effectiveness as a res- cue agency is the helicopter. The ability of these aircraft to hover and to take off and land straight up and down makes pos- sible rescue operations in areas that are inaccessible to more conventional types of air and surface craft. The Coast Guard pioneered in the use of helicopters and in November 1943 set up a helicopter training base at the Coast Guard Air Station at Floyd Bennett Field in New York. A year later, 150 mechanics and over 100 pilots had been graduated from this special school. In 1945, a Coast Guard helicopter pen- etrated the snow-covered wastes near Goose Bay, Labrador, and brought out the crew of a cracked-up Royal Canadian Air Force plane. The next year a Belgian air- 23

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  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:United_States_Coast_Guard_Public_Information_Division
  • booksubject:United_States_Coast_Guard
  • bookpublisher:Washington_D_C_United_States_Coast_Guard_Public_Information_Division
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