Upcoming Events
Members of the National Coast Guard Museum team will be participating in various events around the country as the team moves from the design to construction stage of this historic project.
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Vincent Danz—9/11 hero and FRC namesake
As a member of the Emergency Service Unit, he and his fellow officers were the first to enter the doomed Trade Center. He called home to his wife and told her it was real bad up in the Towers. -
Jeffrey Palazzo—A 9/11 Coast Guard hero’s story
Saving lives was what drew Jeffrey Palazzo to the Coast Guard, and on Sept. 11, 2001, Palazzo, a Coast Guard Reservist, was one of hundreds of New York Fire Department personnel who made the ultimate sacrifice trying to save others. -
Maturing and Making an Impact—Coast Guard Intelligence in the 1980s and 1990s
In the early 1990s Coast Guard Intelligence made extensive contributions to mass migration preparation and response. -
Hero without a headstone—Forgotten keeper Joseph Doyle and his Gold Lifesaving Medal rescues
The weather was horrific with dark skies, steady rain, and tumultuous seas. The keeper and his crew were quickly away and encountering “fearful seas.” -
Raising “The White Picket Fence”—the origin of the Coast Guard’s Haitian Migration Interdiction Operations
While 1980 is most remembered for the arrival of 125,00 Cuban refugees during the Mariel Boatlift, thousands of Haitians also arrived in south Florida by sea that same year. They were collectively referred to as “Cuban-Haitian Entrants.”
"The National Coast Guard Museum remains the Service's top philanthropic priority. I am very excited about the forthcoming National Coast Guard Museum!"
ADM Linda Fagan - Commandant, United States Coast Guard