1941:	After the Danish government in exile asks the US to protect Greenland, the cutter Northland seizes the Norwegian sealer Buskoe, with Nazi agents on board trying to establish radio and weather stations, in MacKenzie Bay, Greenland.  The capture of the Buskoe is the first US naval capture of World War II.
1953:	When the 6,000 ton ore carrieer SS Maryland grounded off Marquette, MI, a Coast Guard helicopter, in the face of driving wind and rain that required the combined efforts of both pilots to hold the controls and stabilize the aircraft, removed 12 crew members with a breeches buoy without any casualties.