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19. Coming Back Alive. By Spike Walker (2001) St. Martin’s Press
20. On the Edge of Survival: A Shipwreck, a Raging Storm, and the Harrowing Alaskan Rescue That Became a Legend. By Spike Walker (2011) St. Martin’s Griffin
21. The Rescue of the Gale Runner: Death, Heroism, and the U.S. Coast Guard (New Perspectives on Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology) By Dennis L. Noble (2008) University Press of Florida
22. A Miracle at ATTU: The Rescue of CG-1600 by CAPT’s Bill Peterson and Mike Wallace (2016) First Edition Design Publishing
23. So Others May Live: Coast Guard’s Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death. By Martha Laguardia-Kotite and Tom Ridge (2008) Lyons Press
24. Brotherhood of the Fin: A Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer’s Story. By Gerald R. Hoover (2007)
25. D-Days in the Pacific With the US Coastguard: The Story of Lucky Thirteen. By Ken Wiley (2010) Casemate
26. The Coast Guard Rescue of the Sea Breeze. By RADM Carlton Moore USCGR (Ret). (2021) History PR
27. So That Others May Live Audiobook