25 Awesome Facts About The Coast Guard: Odd and Interesting Truths About America's Most-Forgotten Military Branch

25 Awesome Facts About The Coast Guard: Odd and Interesting Truths About America's Most-Forgotten Military Branch by Runion, Brian. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780692564899.

The Coast Guard does a lot more than just guard the coast: it goes all over the world saving lives, fighting smugglers, and being really, really awesome. Like did you know the Coast Guard drove the landing craft on D-Day? Or that it helped the Wright Brothers fly? Did you know that it helped create the Navy SEALs and flew B-17s? This book is a collection of 25 of the strangest, most obscure, and most AWESOME facts from the history of the military branch no one remembers. Complete with 88 pages of cartoons, diagrams, and ways to make fun of the Navy. Based on the webcomic by The Claw of Knowledge, and funded with Kickstarter.