British-style flight helmet worn by B-17 co-pilot Charles Gutekunst of SaddleBrooke. Gutekunst, 98, continued flying after his retirement and last flew in 2013, when he was 94.

Coast Guard Gunner's Mate Frank DeVita crawled over the bodies of the dead who lay in the blood and puke covering the deck of the Higgins boat on Omaha Beach to save the landing craft during the ...

The Coast Guard’s new commercial icebreaker is enroute to the West Coast ahead of its August commissioning in Alaska, marking a milestone in the effort to rebuild U.S. defenses in the Arctic Region.

The U.S. Coast Guard has issued a warning after three phosphorus pyrotechnics, left over from a joint military exercise, washed up on Montrose Beach and are still considered armed.

This was not a drill. Members of US Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City nixed a Fleet Week search and rescue demonstration in Manhattan on Memorial Day for the real thing — more than 100 miles ...

If the Coast Guard is primarily concerned with the local and defensive aspects of the oceanic sphere, then the international and offensive aspects are the territory of the U.S. Navy.

NEW LONDON, CT (WFSB) - Around 260 cadets graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London on Wednesday morning. Commencement exercises began at 11 a.m. on Cadet Memorial Field. Families ...

Mariners gathered Monday to express their concerns about a plan by the U.S. Coast Guard to phase out dozens of navigational buoys in Rhode Island waters.

The U.S. Coast Guard said in a Facebook post on Friday that USCGC Stratton, a 4,600-long-ton displacement Legend-class national security cutter homeported in Alameda, California, is currently ...

After a deadly crash at the Brooklyn Bridge, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., questions the impact of a DHS hiring freeze on Coast Guard systems.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., questioned whether the Trump administration’s changes to U.S. Coast Guard staffing played a role in a Mexican navy ship’s Brooklyn Bridge crash. Former U.S. Coast ...