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The team of Coast Guard Reservists who took over the training of the Korean Navy and its nascent academy at the former Imperial Japanese Navy base at Chinhae, South Korea, after the team of Regular Coast Guardsmen departed South Korea on orders by Coast Guard Headquarters.

 

In August, 1949, Chiang Kai-shek and the president of South Korea, Syngman Rhee, met for a three-day meeting at Chinhae—the main base of the South Korean Navy. Chiang Kai-shek had recently fled mainland China for Taiwan after Communist Chinese forces defeated his army.

 

Korean Navy Headquarters, Seoul, Korea, 27 July 1949; Photog: Brown KMAG (Photo). LT M. S. Fila, USCGR, Stl. Louis, MO., makes a daily check of the security at the Naval Headquarters of the Korean Navy. LT Fila is a member of the U.S. Military Advisory Group to the Republic of Korea.

 

Inspection Party: Chinhae, Korea, 15 December 1948.

 

Korean Naval Base—Chinhae, 7 Feb 1950

 

Commander William Achurch and his wife attend a reception at the Korean naval base at Chinhae for Chiang Kai-shek (left).

 

Korean Navy Base—Chinhae 7 February 1950; Photo: Winslow KMAG (PHOTO); A stand-by inspection being conducted by an officer of the faculty and a student officer in the barracks of the Korean Naval Academy Chinhae. The curriculum is similar to that of the U.S. Naval and Coast Guard Academies. American Coast Guard and Naval Reserve officers assisted in its organization and now advise in the operation of the Academy.“

 

Officers, enlisted, midshipmen and employees of the Korean Navy.

 

Korean naval officers at Chinhae, January, 1949.

 

The radio room of the USCGC Minnetonka (WPG-67).

 

A welcome sight: a Coast Guard destroyer escort relieves the USCGC Minnetonka (WPG-67) on an ocean station in the North Pacific, 1952.

While on the ocean station the crew quickly fell into a routine.

 

Ocean station duty could be monotonous at one moment and terrifying the next, as the vessels rode out storms that made the saltiest sailors green. one crewman noted: "After twenty-one days of being slammed around by rough cold sea swells 20 to 50 feet high, and wild winds hitting gale force at times, within an ocean grid the size of a postage stamp, you can stand any kind of duty."

 

USCGC FALGOUT (WDE-424): Performing ocean station duty in the Pacific Ocean out of her home port at Tacoma, Wash., the cutter FALGOUT is one of 12 former Navy Destroyer Escorts to be converted following World War II for use in the U.S. Coast Guard. Carrying a complement of 11 officers and 150 men, the FALGOUT displaces 1,240 tons, is 306 feet long and has a 37-foot beam.” With the addition of new ocean stations in the Pacific, the Coast Guard needed to find vessels to augment the already extended cutter f

 

Note the heavy anti-aircraft and ASW weaponry on these “cutters.”