Introduction: The pre-war Coast Guard; the "rum war" and the "hooligan Navy;" the Coast Guard Reserve and Auxiliary -- The Coast Guard goes to war; Pearl Harbor; command and control; USCG Women's Reserve (SPARs); uniforms -- The home front; USCG Reserve temporary members; port security and beach patrols -- The Battle of the Atlantic; pre-war operations : Greenland; Doenitz's Operation Paukenschlag, January-July 1942; the North Atlantic : "the bloody winter," 1942/43, Escort Group A-3 : convoys SC-112, ON-166, SC-121, HX-233; antisubmarine operations from May 1943 : destroyers and frigates, hunter-killer groups, the last battles, spring 1945 -- The Mediterranean and European theaters; air attacks; USCGC Menges and U-371; the Normandy landings : Assault Group 0-1, control ships, Rescue Flotilla 1 -- The Pacific theater; the Aleutians, 1942-43 and thereafter; amphibious campaigns, southwest & central Pacific : the Solomons, the Gilberts, and Marshalls, New Guinea and the Marianas, the Philippines, Iwo Jima and Okinawa; miscellaneous operations in the CBI -- Aftermath & summary.