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Coast Guard Auxiliary. Narrated by Bill Stern. (Member CGA Flotilla Number 302). A US Coast Guard Picture. This is a black and white, 1940s era film, produced by the United States Coast Guard. The purpose of the film is to show the effort and training auxiliary Coast Guardsmen undergo in order to serve the United States Coast Guard. The film opens with a man in a captain’s hat screwing a number plaque on the side of a boat. A small yacht launches into the water. Men load lifejackets onto a small boat 1:00. The US Coast Guard auxiliary flag flies 1:10. A boat sails under a bridge 1:24. Officers of the flotilla pass on their knowledge to private yachtsmen to help the Coast Guard 1:50. A man exhibits a signal gun 2:10. Men practice semaphore with flags 2:20. Test mobilization. Key men are notified and messages are transferred 2:56. Men from all walks of life are called from their professions to their boats to assist the Coast Guard 3:30. A train rumbles by 3:40. A US Coast Guard cruiser is deploying makebelieve “survivors” in the water. A flag flies at halfmast 4:00. A Coast Guard cutter leaves the dock 4:25. Boats rendezvous in the water to find out what the emergency is 4:54. An aerial view of the boats is seen 5:20. The boats are forming a wall between the imaginary survivors for this test exercise 6:00. The men pick up a pretend survivor 6:15. The pretend survivors are collected amongst all the ships 6:35. A Coast Guard officer gets on the phone 7:02. The auxiliary calls for more official help 7:25. A highspeed emergency boat approaches the flotilla 7:40. A plane flies overhead 7:58. Pretend fire is sent over the bow of a boat 8:18. Officers swearing in the auxiliary men 8:33. The end.

The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary (USCGA, USCGAUX, CGAux, or USCG Aux) is the volunteer uniformed auxiliary service of the United States Coast Guard (USCG). Congress established the unit on June 23, 1939, as the United States Coast Guard Reserve. On February 19, 1941, the organization was redesignated as the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary. The Auxiliary exists to support all USCG missions on the water or in the air, except for roles that require "direct" law enforcement or military engagement. As of 2018, there were approximately 24,000 members of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary.

Collectively the Auxiliary contributes over 4.5 million hours of service each year and completed nearly 500,000 missions in service to support the Coast Guard. Every year Auxiliarists help to save approximately 500 lives, assist 15,000 distressed boaters, conduct over 150,000 safety examinations of recreational vessels, and provide boater safety instruction to over 500,000 students. In total the Coast Guard Auxiliary saves taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

During the war Auxiliarists would help the Coast Guard with recruiting and training active duty personnel. Beginning in 1942, in response to the growing German UBoat threat to the United States, the U.S. Navy ordered the acquisition of the "maximum practical number of civilian craft in any way capable of going to sea in good weather for a period of at least 48 hours." A large number of vessels, owned and piloted by Auxiliarists with crews madeup of Coast Guard reservists, madeup the bulk of the American coastal antisubmarine warfare capability during the early months of World War II (the socalled "Corsair Fleet"). As newly constructed warships took over the load, the Coast Guard abandoned the concept. None of the two thousand civilian craft, armed with depth charges stowed on their decks, ever sank a submarine, though they did rescue several hundred survivors of torpedoed merchant ships. From 1942 through the rest of the war Auxiliarists and Coast Guard reservists served on local Port Security Forces to protect the shipping industry.

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