Research Catalog

Title

Patrol and rescue boats on Puget Sound / Chuck Fowler, Dan Withers, and Combatant Craft of America.

Author

Fowler, Chuck (Charles Roy)

Publication

Charleston, S.C. : Arcadia Pub., c2011.

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Additional Authors

• Combatant Craft of America.
• Withers, Dan.

Description

127 p. : chiefly ill., map, ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

"The history of impressive battleships, aircraft carriers, and submarines on Puget Sound has been well chronicled. However, the story of the smaller, fast patrol and rescue boats that have protected its vast inland waters is largely unknown. This book, through more than 200 rare images and engaging text, reveals the fascinating story. It covers Navy, Coast Guard, and Army Air Force craft in the sound, including the famed patrol torpedo boats of World War II. Featuring evocative photographs from the National Archives, as well as veterans' personal collections, this book highlights these military craft, their proud crews, and essential wartime and peacetime operations"--P. 4 of cover.

Series Statement

Images of America

Uniform Title

Images of America.

Subject

• Combat patrols > History > Pictorial works
• Combat patrols > Puget Sound > History > Pictorial works
• Fast attack craft > Puget Sound > History > Pictorial works
• Puget Sound (Wash.) > History, Naval > Pictorial works
• Search and rescue boats > Puget Sound > History > Pictorial works
• United States. Army Air Forces > History > Pictorial works
• United States. Coast Guard > History > Pictorial works
• United States. Navy > History > Pictorial works

Genre/Form

• History.
• Naval history
• Pictorial works.

Contents

Beginnings : patrolling the Sound -- Prohibition through World War II : 1920-1945 -- The Cold War era : 1946-1991 -- A patrol boat rescued : the CG-83527 story -- Terrorism and Sound security : 1992-2010.

ISBN

• 9780738575810 (pbk.)
• 073857581X (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2011925403

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library