The Story of Coast Guard Aviation
By Lieutenant Colonel Robert H. Rankin, UCMS
and
Norman N. Rubin
Published in the June 1959 issue of the Naval Institute Proceedings is this article by LCOL Robert Rankin, USMC and Mr. Norman Rubin, former Aeronautical Engineer, USCGHQ title The Story of Coast Guard Aviation.
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Historical Narratives
- CDR Frank Lawler Shelly, USCG The HH-52A Helicopter
- On the Edge
- Walter C. Bolton: A Chronology of Events and Achievements
- First Coast Guard African American Woman to Receive the Air Medal
- First Women of U.S. Coast Guard Aviation
- Coast Guard Aviation in Vietnam
- CG Aviation Beginning Demise Resurrection
- Operation Tight Reign
- The Day I Was Ten Feet Tall
- Wolfpack and Sunday Comics
- North Star J2F Duck
- First Helo Ice Breaker Deployment
- The Legacy of Commander Elmer F. Stone – Coast Guard Aviator #1
- Cigars and Rough Weather
- The Grumman Albatross – A World Beater
- A Brief History of Coast Guard Aviation
- Some Recollections of Early Coast Guard Aviation
- The First Transatlantic Flight
- Naval Air Station Sidney WWI
- A Star is Born – Story of the RD Dolphin Pterodactyls placed in the Naval Air Museum
- History of Operations at USCGAS Biloxi
- Story of CF Edge – Locating First CG Air Station Alaska
- Waco J2W-1 and El Paso Detachment
- A History of the United States Coast Guard Catalina, PBY-5, No. V-189
- CGAS Port Angeles WWII Diary
- The Future Of CG Aviation
- The Story of Coast Guard Aviation
- The Norther
- Rotary Wings and Other Things
- Coast Guard Aviation
- CDR Elmer Archie Stone
- Special Unit Profile USCG Air Station Miami
- Grand Fun While It Lasted
- CGAS Sangley Point History
- Some Recollections of Early Coast Guard Aviation
- Coast Guard Air Station Brooklyn’s 50th Anniversary
- US Coast Guard and Goats In Greece
- Nostalgic Sea Language
- Number 66260
- A Different Time – A Different Environment
- A Hand Salute to an Outstanding Group
- Who Saw This Coming
- Bernie’s Air Stories
- Eyes of the Icebreakers
- U.S. Coast Guard Aviation Pilots
- The Indispensable Men
- Hurricane Katrina
- JATO – The Early Days
- Cap’m Mac and Flying Coffins
- The Sinking That Never Happened by an Airplane That Never Flew
- Genesis of the Coast Guard HH-65 Helicopter
- Betsy: The Other Hurricane
- Did You Really Do That?
- Alaskan Monarch Trapped by Ice
- Rough Seas and Cigars
- The Coast Guard’s Air War At Sea
- Out of the Wreckage
- And That’s The Way It Was: Combat SAR in Vietnam
- Coast Guard Aviation and the Drug War
- Hafa Adai and Salty Dogs
- Making A Difference
- Captain David Gershowitz USCG
- Cosmic Overseas Airways
- Casey Quinn: One of a Kind
- A Job Well Done: Captain Michael D. Emerson USCG
- Hank Pfeiffer and the HO4S-3G 1305