Coast Guard at War - On French Shores Part 2

Coast Guard at War - On French Shores Part 2 Ships in heavy seas of North Atlantic - convoy excorts merchant ships. 21:09:13 Ship in US coastal waters which has been hit by German submarine, ship on fire, smoke. Survivors transferred to other boats. Coast guard cutters firing depth charges during Battle of the Atlantic. Explosions in sea. Pom-pom guns firing. Frigates and destroyers underway. 21:10:46 1945 - Coastguards who had manned the destroyer escorts given medals in shipboard ceremony. 21:11:12 Coastguard losses - men in water, superimposed pix of Cutter SS Hamilton, first US ship torpedoed in the Atlantic. Other ships superimposed. 21:11:27 Washington, Coastguard commandant Admiral R. Washie? summarises the CG contribution. 21:12:19 1942 - Anchor chain lifted, Pacific convoy underway including converted luxury liner Hunter Ligate?. Officers on board, drills on ship. Marines on deck. 21:13:32 Guadalcanal Aug. 7th 1942, ships bombarding coast. Ship anchored offshore, men down landing nets, landing craft beached. US troops firing artillery, troops advance inland. 21:14:23 North Africa Nov. 1942 Convoy underway, British troops down landing nets. Loaded landing craft heading for beaches, men ashore under fire. 21:15:30 Sicily July 1943 - landing crafts, beachhead activity, enemy air attacks. Huge explosion, phosphorus bomb? 21:16:48 Italy - ships firing. Troops on beach. 21:17:19 Tarawa Nov 1943. Landing craft, ships firing. Landing craft from USS Arthur Middleton stuck on reef. Small strip of beach crowded with troops, many injured. Troops use flamethrower. Landing barges take wounded back to transport ship.