Two Coast Guardsman stand looking at a wall of ice. Arctic Zone, 1941-45
Gift of the Scanlan Family
Description:
Photograph. Two Coast Guardsman stand looking at a wall of ice. Official caption on reverse: "0225432. From: Public Relations Division / U.S. Coast Guard / Washington, D.C. U.S. Coast Guardsmen Look at Ice while mates in the Service are looking at palm trees. The words of the familiar hymn, 'From Greenland's ice mountain to India's coral strand', are no exaggeration. Coast Guardsmen are serving in the Arctic Zone and the South Pacific. Germans and Japanese have both fallen before their guns, as the Service maintains a tradition begun in 1790. No date
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1941
1945
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Items from the service of John J. Scanlan Jr., who served in the United States Coast Guard. Born in Quincy, Massachusetts, Scanlan worked for a newspaper prior to joining the Coast Guard. During the war, he acquired photographs published by the Public Relations Division of the United States Coast Guard. The collection consists of photographs from most of the theaters of operations and depict life in the field and aboard a ship for Coast Guardsmen and Marines. Also included is a satirical piece of military correspondence. See collection 2012.321 for more items from the collection subject.
Geography:
Grønland
Latitude:
72.000
Longitude:
-40.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Ice floes--Greenland
Death & burial