Chief Petty Officer Fernando Jorge. A Coast Guard helicopter rescue swimmer who died while serving. 
Dan Illerich gestures to where he was sitting when his B-24 bomber was shot down over Borneo in 1944. Illerich and his crew's remarkable story was documented in the PBS documentary "The Airmen and the Headhunters".

World War II veteran Max Glazner at his Friendswood, Texas home. Glazner was drafted into the Coast Guard during World War II and served on the Coast Guard Cutter Orchid. 

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