The Long Blue Line: Coast Guard’s “Queen of the Fleet” and the Battle of Convoy ON-166, part 1
Posted by PA2 Diana Honings, Thursday, July 6, 2017
“. . . . the 327s battled through the “Bloody Winter” of 1942-43 in the North Atlantic–fighting off German U-boats and rescuing survivors from torpedoed convoy ships.”
Retired U.S. Coast Guard Capt. John M. Waters, “The Bloody Winter”
In the quote above, retired Coast Guard captain and book author, John Waters, commented on the service’s ocean-going cutters, which formed the backbone of the Navy’s convoy escort fleet in the early years of the Battle of the Atlantic.
http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2017/07/the-long-blue-line-coast-guards-queen-of-the-fleet-and-the-battle-of-convoy-on-166-part-1/
