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Can someone tell me what the coast guard did specifically in WWII?
like battles and patrols. please help!
That's a big question, quite literally requiring a book to fully answer.
If you're looking for the abbreviated version, that'd be "patrol for submarines, escort US merchant shipping, and ferry Marines to shore in Higgins boats". It was in performance of this last mission that Douglas Munro won his Medal of Honor at Guadalcanal, to date, the only Coastguardsman to win the award.
Brief website with more details of USCG activities in WW2 here:
http://www.uscg.mil/history/uscghist/CombatVictoriesWWII.asp
If you're interested in learning in depth on the subject, here's a few books on the topic:
http://www.amazon.com/Coast-Guard-World-War-Elite/dp/1846039193/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273794937&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/United-States-Coast-Guard-World/dp/0786442565/ref=tmm_pap_title_0
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