U.S. COAST GUARD IN VIETNAM:
A GALLERY OF HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHS
COAST GUARD SQUADRON ONE (Part
2 of 3)
| Photos (Click on image to see full-size) | Original caption; Description; Date; Photographer (if known). Unless otherwise stated all are official U.S. Coast Guard photographs. |
|---|---|
| "DA NANG, VIETNAM -- Coast Guard
82-footers tied up."'
Photo No. CPI-072465-03; 24 July 1965; Nichols, PH1, USCG, photographer. |
| "DA NANG, VIETNAM -- Commandant's
inspection and where 82-footers tie up. (ADM E. J. Roland,
USCG, and Assist' Sec. Reed.)"
No photo number; 24 July 1965; Nichols, PH1, USCG, photographer. |
| "DA NANG, VIETNAM -- Commandant's
inspection and where 82-footers tie up. (ADM E. J. Roland,
USCG, and Assist' Sec. Reed.)"
No photo number; 24 July 1965; Nichols, PH1, USCG, photographer. |
| "CAPT Robert J. Loforte, USCG,
Commander, Coast Guard Squadron One, in the pilot house of the
82-footer USCGC POINT WHITE."
No photo number; 9 March 1966; F. Borzage, PHC, USCG, photographer. |
| "First combat shots--Wed., Aug.
25, 1965 [**]; Close-up of gun crew on board USCGC POINT
COMFORT (WPB-82317) firing 81mm mortar during bombardment of
suspected Viet Cong staging area one mile behind An Thoi.
Gunner is Greene F. Treat, BMCS, USCG, loader is Lee Roy Bradshaw,
Jr., CS2, and ammo passer is Edward J. Hanson, GM2. POINT
COMFORT at this time was commanded by LT Alexander Larzelere, USCG,
and was assigned to Div. 11 at An Thoi, Phu Quoc Island, Gulf of
Thailand. Her homeport was Benicia, Cal."
No photo number; 25 August 1965; R. T. Douville, JO3, USCG, photographer. **NOTE: This caption is incorrect, as the "First Combat Shots" were fired from CGC Point Orient on the 17th Parallel, 22 June 1965. CAPT John M. Cece was in command and gave the order to "Commence Fire!" A spent shell casing from the event is now an artifact at the Coast Guard Museum. |
| "SALVAGE OPERATIONS ON TWO JUNKS
SUNK IN GULF OF THAILAND, SEPTEMBER 1965: Viet Cong suspect Huynh
Huu Liem, fished out of the water after [the] first junk was sunk by
a Coast Guard 82-footer, is shown hands manacled on board the
82-footer POINT GARNET. The prisoner said he was born in 1948
at Duong Dong."
Photo No. CPI-01-19-65 (04); R. T. Douville, JO3, USCG, photographer. |
| "Civilian Irregular Defense Group
soldiers Chau and Loi on board the 82-foot U.S. Coast Guard Cutter
POINT GREY on the eve of the pre-dawn raid launched on VC territory
at the north end of Phu Quoc Island by Coast Guard Division 11 and
U.S. Army Special Forces on Phu Quoc, September 27, 1965."
Photo No. CPI-092665-03, R. T. Douville, JO3, USCG, photographer. |
| "USCG 82-FOOTERS CHANGE FROM
WHITE TO DARK GREY COATS: "The vivid white hulls of U.S.
Coast Guard 82-footers serving in Vietnam are now changed to a more
practical camouflage of dark gray. A crew member standing in a
small boat sprays on the now dark gray paint over the hull of the
82-footer USCGC POINT GAMMON (WPB-82328), assigned to Coast Guard
Division Twelve at Danang, South Vietnam. USCGC POINT GAMMON
is commanded by Lieutenant Keith Ripley, USCG, of Baltimore, Md.
Her original homeport was Yerba Buena, Calif."
Photo No. CPI-10-26-65 (FR-7)--Knapp-Gen.; October 1965; Knapp, photographer. |
| "82-foot POINT COMFORT
(WPB-82317) in dry-dock, for cleanup and new paint coat of battle
gray."
No photo number; 14 November 1965; photographer unknown. |
| The USCGC Point Comfort
inspects a Vietnamese fishing junk.
No photo number; 8 November 1965; PHC Frank Borzage, USCG, photographer. |
| The USCGC Point Comfort
inspects a Vietnamese fishing junk.
No photo number; 8 November 1965; PHC Frank Borzage, USCG, photographer. |
| "82-ft. USCGC POINT COMFORT
(WPB-82317) inspecting junk at Duong-Dong."
No photo number; 8 November 1965; PHC Frank Borzage, USCG, photographer. |
| "82-ft. USCGC POINT COMFORT
(WPB-82317), Div. 11, inspecting fishing junks at Duong-Dong."
No photo number; 8 November 1965; PHC Frank Borzage, USCG, photographer. |
| "82-ft. USCGC POINT COMFORT
(WPB-82317), Div. 11, inspecting fishing junks at Duong-Dong."
No photo number; 8 November 1965; PHC Frank Borzage, USCG, photographer. |
| "82-ft. USCGC POINT COMFORT
(WPB-82317), Div. 11, inspecting fishing junks at Duong-Dong."
No photo number; 8 November 1965; PHC Frank Borzage, USCG, photographer. |
| "82-ft. USCGC POINT COMFORT
(WPB-82317), Div. 11, inspecting fishing junks at Duong-Dong."
No photo number; 8 November 1965; PHC Frank Borzage, USCG, photographer. |
| "82-ft. USCGC POINT COMFORT
(WPB-82317), Div. 11, inspecting fishing junks at Duong-Dong."
No photo number; 8 November 1965; PHC Frank Borzage, USCG, photographer. |
| "82-ft. USCGC POINT COMFORT
(WPB-82317), Div. 11, inspecting fishing junks at Duong-Dong."
No photo number; 8 November 1965; PHC Frank Borzage, USCG, photographer. |
| "Beard growing contest by crewman
of USCG 82-footer Division 11, An Thoi. (No names or information
received with these.)"
No photo number; 8 November 1965; PHC Frank Borzage, USCG, photographer. |
 | "Hazards of the Vietnam conflict included the ever-present danger of being trapped by the outgoing tide. For more than 24 hours in late 1968, the Cutter Point Partridge, pictured here, was a sitting duck for the enemy. Fortunately, she was refloated by the next tide and escaped without further incident."; H. R. Kaplan & James F. Hunt. This Is The Coast Guard (Cambridge, MD: Cornell Maritime Press, Inc., 1972), pp. 86. |
| "Release No. 1-66: SALVAGING A
VIET CONG JUNK SUNK BY COAST GUARD: At Hon Heo, South Vietnam, U.S.
Coast Guard 82-footer POINT YOUNG acts as support vessel for Navy
divers and Coast Guard personnel working to raise the first Viet
Cong junk that was sunk in the Gulf of Thailand by a Coast Guard
82-footer in September of 1965. The 20-foot junk had attempted
to ram the 82-footer USCGC POINT GLOVER, which retaliated with
machine gun fire that stopped and sank the junk."
Click here for a 300 dpi image. 3 January 1966; Rel. No. 6127; photographer unknown. |
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