Attack on America: September 11, 2001 and the U.S. Coast Guard
U.S. COAST GUARD ORAL HISTORY PROGRAM
Operation Noble Eagle Documentation Project
ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEWS
The following are a series of interviews with Coast Guardsmen undertaken by PAC Peter Capelotti (Ph.D.), USCGR, among others, as part of the Historian's Office's attempt to document the Coast Guard's response to the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on this country and the impact those attacks had on what the service is called upon to do for the country.
Chief Capelotti used the interviews as part of his research for his book Rogue Wave: The U.S. Coast Guard On and After 9/11, a history of the Coast Guard's response to this attack on the United States.
INTERVIEWS
(Click on the individual's name to access their oral history; please note that the ranks and titles listed with their names are those held by the interviewee on 11 September 2001):
Coast Guard Headquarters
ADM James M. Loy, Commandant (G-C)
VADM Thomas Collins, Vice Commandant (G-CV)
RADM Terry M. Cross, Assistant Commandant for Operations (G-O)
RADM Patrick Stillman, Program Executive Officer for the Deepwater Project (G-D), first interview, 4 March 2002
RADM Patrick Stillman, second interview, 27 June 2002
RADM Robert D. Sirois, Director of Reserve and Training (G-WT)
CAPT Dan Deputy, Chief, Office of Cutter Forces (G-OCU)
CAPT Dana Goward, Chief, Office of Boat Forces (G-OCS) & CDR James Maes, Chief, Boat Platform Division (G-OCS-2)
Pentagon
RADM Jeffrey J. Hathaway, Director, Navy Command Center & Counter-Drug Division (OpNav N32)
Area Commanders
VADM Thad Allen, Commander, Atlantic Area & Fifth District
VADM Ernest R. Riutta, Commander, Pacific Area & Eleventh District
District Commanders & Staff
RADM George Naccara, Commander, 1st District
CAPT W. Russell Webster, 1st District Chief of Operations
RADM Roy J. Casto, Commander, 8th District, (with CAPT Joel Whitehead, 8th District Chief of Staff & CAPT Richard Sullivan, 8th District Chief of Homeland Security)
CAPT Richard Sullivan, 8th District Chief of Homeland Security
RADM Earl M. Brown, Commander, 13th District
RADM Ralph D. Utley, Commander, 14th District, (with CAPT Steven A. Newell, 8th District Chief of Staff & CAPT Thomas Yearout)
RADM Thomas J. Barrett, Commander, 17th District
Air Station Cape Cod
Captain Richard P. Yatto, Commanding Officer
Activities Baltimore
CAPT Roger Peoples, Commander, Activities Baltimore
Harbor Defense Command
HDCU 201
Port Security Units
PSU 305
CDR Robert W. Grabb, Commanding Officer
LCDR Lee Hanford, Executive Officer
LCDR Karl Leonard, Operations Officer
LT Leona Roszkowski, Tactical Action Officer, Boats Division Officer
USCGC Adak (WPB-1333)
LT Sean McKenzie, Commanding Officer
Coast Guard Auxiliary
Ms. Ellen Voorhees, Materials Officer, Coast Guard Auxiliary, Staff Officer Secretary, Division Seven (assigned to CG Atlantic Strike Team and served as a watch stander.)
Mr. Tom Murray, Flotilla Staff Officer, Coast Guard Auxiliary, Fifth Northern Division, Flotilla 711 (assigned to CG Atlantic Strike Team and served as a watch stander.)
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