Dr. William Thiesen provides us in-depth looks into some of the most fascinating members whom served in the Coast Guard.

• Lieutenant Commander Dwight Hodge Dexter: Guadalcanal’s “Naval Operating Base Cactus”


• Captain Carl Christian von Paulsen: Coast Guard Aviation Pioneer, War Hero and Naturalist


• CDR Juan del Castillo: Officer, Humanitarian and Self-Made Scientist


• Charles Eliot Winslow and His Heroic Rescues in Command of the Coast Guard Cutter Argo


• Elmer F. Stone and the Pioneering Role of Coast Guard Academy Graduates in Early Naval and Coast Guard Aviation


• Captain Henry G. Hemingway:
  Guardian, Cutterman and Leader of Men


• The Heroic Exploits of Benjamin Hiller
  in America’s Quasi War with France


• Devotion to Duty: Lt. John A. Pritchard’s Epic Story
  of World War II Search and Rescue
  on the Greenland Ice Cap


• Lt. Robert Prause and the Coast Guard’s First Rescue Swimmer System


• Charles Walter David, Jr:
  African-American Hero in a Segregated Service


• From Spain to Coast Guard Officer to Syracuse University:
  Joseph Tezanos’s Pursuit of the American Dream


• Captain Charles S. Root:
  Lifesaver, Distinguished Engineer and Founder of Coast Guard Intelligence


• Captain Domenic A. Calicchio:
  The Coast Guard’s Champion of Marine Safety Regulations


• The Life & Career of Lt. Thomas James Eugene Crotty:
  A Coast Guard Leader, Hero and Prisoner of War