USCGC Eagle

Entering New London Harbor aboard the Susan Anne October 1, 2021. Just off our port beam, the US Coast Guard Cutter Eagle proudly displays the “Colors”. The “Eagle”, formerly named after Horst Wessel, a German Paratrooper, was taken possession of by the United States as a war prize after WWII. Adolf Hitler and President John F Kennedy celebrated birthdays aboard the Eagle. I was stationed aboard the USCGC Woodrush WLB-407 during a 1980 refit at the Curtis Bay Yard, in preparation of her trip threw the Panama Canal and eventual homeport of Sitka Alaska. The Cutter Eagle was in the slip just east of us. Michael Roy, whom I attended boot camp in Cape May NJ was stationed aboard her, so I paid him a visit. Together we climbed the forward mast to the second stay, before I called it quits! Semper Paratus, Tommy May USCG 1979 to 1983.