Members of the U.S. Coast Guard in a lifeboat off the coast of North Carolina got a glimpse at some of the powerful waves ...

A true-story Coast Guard rescue will soon get the big-screen treatment. (PO1 Nick Ameen/U.S. Coast Guard) On February 28, 2009, a group of friends set off on a trip that would end in tragedy. Nick ...

On Feb. 18, 1952, the Coast Guard station in Chatham, Massachusetts, got word that the SS Pendleton, a World War II-era oil tanker, had been split in half at sea.

A Coast Guard flier (Randolph Scott) tries to rescue a pal (Ralph Bellamy) lost in the Arctic. Nancy: Frances Dee. Bliss: Walter Connolly. O'Hara: Warren Hymer. Directed by Edward Ludwig ...

The epic tale of that night in 1952 -- and what happened on the ferocious seas in blinding conditions -- is now a Disney movie, starring Chris Pine as Webber, who led a crew of four on a small ...

The mission is considered the greatest small-boat rescue in Coast Guard history and is the premise for the movie “The Finest Hours,” in theaters Friday and based on the 2009 book of the same name.

In 2006, he released his book, "The Coast Guard in Film." In 1997 he donated his collection of more than 500 pieces of movie ephemera to the United States Coast Guard Museum.

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He and the three other Coast Guardsmen on the CG36500 were awarded the Gold Lifesaving Medal, the Coast Guard's highest honor for plucking 32 men off the SS Pendleton.