World War II

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I ENJOYED James Holland’s column about the Coast Guard’s wartime participation (“Always Ready”) in your February 2021 issue, especially its mention of coastguardsman Marvin Perrett, the New Orleans native who was coxswain of a Higgins boat at Utah Beach on D-Day. I had the honor of hosting Marvin at the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum’s World War II Weekend in

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