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This cutter captured 10 prizes, one of which carried 14 guns and 200 men (three times her own force).
What is the Cutter Pickering?
100
This cutter fired the first naval shots of the Civil War.
What is the Harriet Lane?
100
This Coast Guard member is the service's only Medal of Honor winner.
Who is Douglas Munro?
100
This cutter was torpedoed by a German U-boat, and every crew member was killed. 111 of the 115 crew members were Coast Guardsmen.
What is the Tampa?
100
This War saw a higher percentage of Coast Guard Personnel killed than any other US service.
What is World War I?
200
This cutter captured the first prize of the War of 1812.
What is the cutter Jefferson?
200
This cutter was praised for its gallantry during its battle with the Narcissus in the War of 1812.
What is the Surveyor?
200
This cutter, carrying six guns and manned by 10 officers and 95 crewmen, was engaged in the Battle of Manila Bay.
What is the McCulloch?
200
The Cutter Hudson rescued the badly damaged USS Winslow in this Bay in Cuba.
What is Cardenas Bay?
200
These six Coast Guard cutters were deployed to Gibraltar in World War I.
What are the Ossipee, Seneca, Yamacraw, Algonquin, Manning and Tampa?
300
This Cutterman and member of the Hudson received a Gold Medal in the War of 1812.
Who is Lieutenant Frank Newcomb?
300
The Coast Guard was ordered to operate under this branch a month prior to Pearl Harbor.
What is the Navy?
300
As a part of this operation, the Coast Guard increased its patrols by 50 percent and placed armed boarding officers on every high interest vessel arriving or departing from American ports.
What is Operation Enduring Freedom?
300
Twenty-six 82 foot cutters were deployed to Vietnam for this operation.
What is Operation Market time?
300
These units provided coastal patrols, anti-terrorist operations, and overall port security during this war.
What is Desert Storm?
400
This cutter took the Norwegian trawler Boskoe into "protective custody" and captured three German radiomen ashore.
What is the cutter Northland?
400
A mutiny of troops on the Middlesex was quelled during this war.
What is the Mexican-American War?
400
This cutter recaptured the American vessels Nancy and Mehitable in a memorable fight with the Revenge in the Quasi-War with France.
What is the Eagle?
400
During this war, US Navy ships were employed jointly under Coast Guard command for the first time.
What is the War on terrorism?
400
Using depth charges, this cutter forced the surfacing of a German submarine.
What is the Icarus?
500
This cutter experienced severe damage due to ramming during the sinking of an enemy submarine.
What is the Campbell?
500
This cutter tracked a submarine through a convoy with such skill and precision that the action became part of antisubmarine force policy.
What is the cutter Spencer?
500
Douglas Munro won the Medal of Honor after his heroic actions in this battle.
What is the Battle of Guadalcanal?
500
The Coast Guard played a primarily role of support in this war, in which it improved communications and meteorological services, as well as assuring port security and proper ammunition handling.
What is the Korean War?
500
These are the 11 conflicts in which the Coast Guard has contributed.
What are the Quasi-War with France, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, Desert Shield and the War on Terrorism?
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