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Flotilla History Collection
Introduction
Welcome to the Auxiliary Flotilla history link page. We will be happy to
post a link to the history page of your Flotilla's website. Be advised,
however, that we screen for content. Accepted pages need to be at least one
page in length and contain an awards page if possible. For acceptance,
contact Richard A. Stephenson.
Researching your history:
Advisory: For those units engaged in researching their flotilla/division
histories, the history program only keeps reference files on Auxiliary
history, mostly on major national events. However, we do possess some
data on flotilla charter dates, so contact Richard Stephenson at
rsas52@gmail.com. Be advised
that if you have a charter date of 1959, that this is the year Coast Guard
files were computerized, so you may have a much older unit. Otherwise
in researching your histories, the following is recommended:
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contact your District Historian to
determine what information he/she holds;
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interview longtime current and
past flotilla members and collect, documents for donation to the Auxiliary
national records collection and artifacts that will be incorporated into the
Coast Guard collection-see tabs regarding these topics on this site;
collected items must be shipped through your District Historian;
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contact your local newspaper
morgues to search for articles on the Auxiliary;
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contact your local historical
society for same;
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many Auxiliary units were
originally formed from yacht club memberships; contact local yacht clubs to
see if they hold Auxiliary documents and/or photographs.
After you have done some initial
research, feel free to contact the curator of the Auxiliary collection at
the Joyner Library at East Carolina University, Dale Sauter, at
sauterd@ecu.edu. Staff at ECU,
however, can only do limited research.
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