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From: military@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: The Coast Guard means business
Message-ID: <7292@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 9 Jun 89 03:28:27 GMT
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From: sun!sunburn.West.Sun.COM!mcdphx!anasaz!john


>From: ssc-vax!shuksan!major@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Mike Schmitt)

In article <7092@cbnews.ATT.COM>, doug@spdcc.com (Doug Mackensie) writes:
 
  Just a tidbit here about the Coast Guard during WWII (important
  military missions).  I believe that most (if not all) of the landing
  crafts used during all the Pacific islands assault landings - were
  piloted by Coast Guardsmen.  (anybody have any documented sources/facts?)

I don't know about landing craft, but a good friend of mine did survive
the Guadalcanal battles on board a Coast Guard troop carrier (in this
case a converted passenger liner) - the USS Hunter Liggett. 
The 32 landing barges they carried were piloted by Coast Guard. 
The Navy also had troop carriers with their boats piloted by Navy personnel.