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Stone, Elmer F. (Elmer Fowler), 1887-1936

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Elmer "Archie" Fowler Stone (January 22, 1887 – May 20, 1936) was a United States naval aviator and a commander in the United States Coast Guard. After 54 hours in the air, Stone became the first man to pilot an aircraft across the Atlantic on May 31, 1919, when he and his crew landed their plane, the NC-4, in Plymouth harbor. He completed his transatlantic flight eight years before Charles Lindbergh’s famous solo crossing in the Spirit of St. Louis. Stone and the crew of NC-4 had proven ...

United States. Coast Guard

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The Rock of Ages Light is a U.S. Coast Guard lighthouse on a small rock outcropping approximately 2.25 miles west of Washington Island and 3.5 miles west of Isle Royale, in Keweenaw County, Michigan. It is an active aid to navigation. From the description of Rock of Ages Lighthouse Logbook, 1939-1945. (Michigan Technological University). WorldCat record id: 758507044 "The U.S. Coast Guard is one of the five armed forces of the United States and the only military organization...

Bertholf, Ellsworth Price, 1866-

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United States. Revenue-Cutter Service

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Stika, Joseph Edward, 1889-1976

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Stika was born in Milwaukee in 1889. His first assignment with the U.S. Coast Guard was on the ship Androscoggin in the North Atlantic in 1910. From 1913-17 he saw duty on the Great Lakes, Alaska, Puerto Rico and New York City. During the 1920's he commanded the Chillicothe on the Canadian border and saw duty off the Grand Banks and New York City area. He was given command of the Seneca and Unalga. In 1935 he became an ordnance officer at Coast Guard Headquarters and by 1937 was an officer at th...