Pacific LST

There were 231,000 men and 10,000 women who served in the Coast Guard during World War II. – and 1,918 of them did not return home.At its height, the Coast Guard manned 802 ocean going cutters, 351 naval vessels, 288 Army watercraft, smaller vessels assigned to escort and port security, and 165 aircraft. Stephen C. Stripe, an amateur historian whose father, Max E. Stripe, served in the Coast Gua...