U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Midgett. The first commanding officer was Captain John T. Rouse. Douglas Albert Munro was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada, but grew up in South Cle Elum, Washington. Not Now. 191 were here. After basic training, Munro and Evans served on the Coast Guard Cutter Spencer where they both became signalmen. After a three month wait, in September 1939, Munro got a call from the recruiter telling him he was selected for service if he was still interested and soon … U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Douglas Munro. Government Organization. The dedication of the ship took place on April 15, 1972, at Douglas Munro's first homeport of Boston, Massachusetts. According to Evans, his dying words were, "Did they get off? It was commissioned in 2017 with Julie Sheehan—Munro's great-niece—serving as the ship's sponsor. He was raised in South Cle Elum, Washington, and attended Central Washington College of Education before volunteering for military service shortly before the United States entered World War II. 70 years ago today, Signalman 1st Class Douglas Munro led the evacuation of a Marine battalion from Guadalcanal during a Japanese counterattack. He is the only person to have received the medal for actions performed during service in the Coast Guard. In 1999, the cutter seized the motor vessel Wing Fung Lung, carrying 259 illegal Chinese migrants. [a], Munro was born in Canada to an American father and a British mother, and his family moved to the United States when he was a child. According to Cooley's daughter, for over 30 years he never missed a day, even when he was ill with pneumonia. [52], Several members of Munro's extended family have been named Douglas as a familial tribute to Munro. [4]:4, The LCT was ultimately freed and the boats resumed their withdrawal. USS Douglas A. Munro, DE-422 Note: The USS Douglas A. Munro was a commissioned US Navy destroyer escort with a Navy crew; her history is included here … He died of a gunshot wound at age 22 while using the Higgins boat that he was piloting to shield a landing craft filled with Marines from Japanese fire. They were then assigned to the Treasury-class cutter USCGC Spencer, serving aboard the vessel until 1941. Armed Forces . During the Guadalcanal Campaign, Munro was assigned to Naval Operating Base Cactus at Lunga Point, where small boat operations were coordinated. On March 23, 2008, Douglas Munro rescued survivors of FV Alaska Ranger when it sank 180 miles (290 km) west of Dutch Harbor. Munro and Evans volunteered for reassignment to the attack transport USS Hunter Liggett, which was being outfitted and manned by the Coast Guard as part of preparations for War Plan Orange. [22], According to Munro's biographer, Williams, the public details of Munro's actions were first chronicled in The Seattle Times on October 15, 1942, though initial reports did not reveal Munro had been killed in action. Douglas Albert Munro (October 11, 1919 – September 27, 1942) is the only member of the United States Coast Guard to have received the Medal of Honor, the United States’s highest military award. He attended Cle Elum High School, where he was a member of the school's wrestling team. The USCGC DOUGLAS MUNRO had this gorgeous sunrise on Coast Guard Day 2019 while in the Bering Sea. [4]:5[5]:95, 97 Munro's parents were later buried on either side of their son's grave at Laurel Hill. Munro was also a member of Cle Elum's Boy Scout Troop 84. U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Douglas Munro. National Transportation Safety Board Maritime Accident Report. Munro was shot in the base of his skull and lost consciousness. As he closed the beach, he signaled the others to land, and then in order to draw the enemy's fire and protect the heavily loaded boats, he valiantly placed his craft with its two small guns as a shield between the beachhead and the Japanese. Secretary of Transportation John A. Volpe and Douglas Munro's mother, Edith, were on hand to commission Douglas Munro. [4]:2 Munro was baptized at the Holy Nativity Episcopal Church in South Cle Elum. He is the only non-Marine to have his name enshrined on the Wall of Heroes of the National Museum of the Marine Corps. United States Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, Douglas A. 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Headquarters After Douglas Munro", "H.R. Munro directed the other LCT to help extricate the grounded vessel as he maneuvered his own boat to shield the Marines from Japanese fire from the shore. [5]:6, In his youth Munro showed a high level of musical aptitude, mastering percussion, trumpet, and harmonica. [35], Several monuments have also been erected to Munro, including a bronze statue at Coast Guard Training Center Cape May (Douglas Munro by Carey Boone Nelson), a larger-than-life bust at the Douglas A. Munro Coast Guard Headquarters (Douglas Munro by John Tuomisto-Bell and Tyson Snow), a black marble pillar etched with Munro's visage at the Coast Guard Academy, a memorial marker at the Point Cruz Yacht Club in Honiara in the Solomon Islands, and a monument in Crystal River, Florida. U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Munro (WMSL-755) returned to San Diego from its maiden drug interdiction mission Thursday with a record 39,000 pounds … Government Organization. USCGC Douglas Munro (WHEC-724) Named after the only Coast Guard Medal of Honor recipient, Signalman First Class Douglas Munro, the cutter enjoys a reputation for excellence which has resulted from the pride and hard work of the crew you are about to join. The second "go-fast" then proceeded to light itself on fire to destroy the bales on board the vessel, but Douglas Munro's crew quickly sank the vessel and later recovered approx 139 bales of cocaine. Douglas Albert Munro (October 11, 1919 – September 27, 1942) is the only member of the United States Coast Guard to have received the Medal of Honor, the United States's highest military award. [5]:141 The 75th anniversary ceremony, held in 2017, was attended by Commandant of the Coast Guard Admiral Paul Zukunft. WELCOME TO THE USCGC Munro (WHEC-724) Welcome to USCGC MUNRO (WHEC 724), the finest 378-foot cutter in the Coast Guard. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer hailed the arrival of "Two (Douglas Munro and Boutwell) of the newest, finest ships in the Coast Guard fleet." In fact, Evans was told that the office had not brought anyone in the Coast Guard in seven years. 2611 – A bill to designate the United States Coast Guard Headquarters the "Douglas A. 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Upon being re-commissioned in November 1989, Munro was homeported at Coast Guard Island in Alameda, California. According to the Coast Guard Compass “It may surprise some that the Coast Guard had a major combat role in World War II and that a Coast Guardsman was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. In 1998, Douglas Munro intercepted the Chinese vessel Chih Yung, carrying 172 people attempting to illegally enter the U.S. [5]:59 Four days later, Coast Guard officers arrived at the home of Munro's parents in South Cle Elum to inform them of his death. It was also featured in the BBC series Full Circle with Michael Palin in 1997, as the presenter was on the ship at the end of his documentary circumnavigation of the Pacific Rim. [1][9], U.S. Coast Guard Medal of Honor recipient, Cooley flagpole at the Douglas Munro Burial Site, During World War II, James Munro served as a captain in the, Edith Fairey's father, William Joseph Thrower Fairey, served in the, The term "gold dust twins" is a sobriquet generally meaning "a pair of inseparable and indefatigable workers". Douglas Munro continues to serve in the surrounding area. Four traffickers were recovered with two needing medical assistance from Douglas Munro's corpsman. Douglas Albert Munro (October 11, 1919 – September 27, 1942) was a United States Coast Guardsman who was posthumously decorated with the Medal of Honor for an act of "extraordinary heroism" during World War II. USCGC Douglas Munro (WHEC-724) is a Hamilton-class High Endurance Cutter of the United States Coast Guard, named for Signalman First Class Douglas A. Munro (1919–1942), the only Coast Guardsman to be awarded the Medal of Honor. His father repatriated his family from Canada to the United States in 1922, settling in South Cle Elum, Washington, where he was employed as an electrician. [1] In 1986, Douglas Munro interdicted the motor vessel Line Island Trader, which had been attempting to enter the U.S. with 4.5 tons of marijuana. [26][27], Munro's remains were recovered from Guadalcanal in 1947 and were reinterred at Laurel Hill Memorial Park in Cle Elum in 1948, his family having declined a full military burial at the Arlington National Cemetery. [5]:78 Prior to the initial landings at the Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo, Munro was posted to Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner's staff aboard USS McCawley. [5]:136, Three United States warships have been named after Munro: the destroyer escort USS Douglas A. Munro (DE-422), and the cutters USCGC Douglas Munro (WHEC-724) and USCGC Munro (WMSL-755). [50][51] The Douglas A. Munro Award, established in 1971 and sponsored by the Navy League of the United States, is annually presented to an enlisted Coast Guardsman "who has demonstrated outstanding leadership and professional competence to the extent of their rank and rate". His first role model was his mother, Edith, and he would eventually be hers. The Coast Guard's first major participation in the Pacific war was at Guadalcanal. Munro and his shipmate Raymond Evans were known as the Gold Dust Twins, so-called because they were inseparable.[3]. [42], At Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, recruit classes are annually assembled at the statue Douglas Munro on the anniversary of Munro's death, during which three-volleys are fired. [12] Munro would spend the rest of his Coast Guard career with Evans, and the pair became known to shipmates as "the Gold Dust Twins". Each year, on Sept. 27, the Coast Guard family remembers Munro in a variety of ways. [2][3] Douglas Munro deployed its HH-65 Dolphin helicopter to the sinking site, and received 20 of the surviving fishermen. He is the namesake of the "Douglas Munro March", the Navy League's Douglas A. Munro Award, the Coast Guard Foundation's Douglas Munro Scholarship Fund, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars' Douglas Munro-Robert H. Brooks Post. Sinking of U. S. Fish Processing Vessel Alaska Ranger, Bering Sea, March 23, 2008. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USCGC_Douglas_Munro_(WHEC-724)&oldid=989680865, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 20 November 2020, at 11:52. The anniversary of his death is annually observed in Cle Elum and at Coast Guard Training Center Cape May. The previously commissioned 378-footers had been named for former secretaries of the Treasury, a tradition that began in 1830 when a cutter was named for Alexander Hamilton. [34] The act to designate the Coast Guard headquarters in tribute to Munro was introduced by Eleanor Holmes Norton, the Delegate of the District of Columbia to the United States, and co-sponsored by United States Congressmen Duncan Hunter, John Garamendi, and Lou Barletta. [12][15]:323–324[16][17], By mid-1942, Hunter Liggett had been assigned to Transport Division 17, tasked with supporting the Guadalcanal Campaign. By age eight he had moved to Canada; his divorced mother remarried a Canadian citizen whose surname he took. In 1980, the ship moved to yet another new homeport: Honolulu, Hawaii. The United States Flag Code permits a flag to be flown after sunset "if properly illuminated during the hours of darkness". Commander Response Division Prevention Division Planning Force Readiness … [30], At the time of Munro's death, according to a shipmate, he had a girlfriend. He gallantly gave up his life in defense of his country. In 1971, for instance, the combined Japanese, Russian, Canadian, and South Korean fishing fleets had caught about ten times as many fish as the U.S. fleet did. While operating out of Seattle, Douglas Munro became more active in the fisheries enforcement mission and less active in the ocean station mission, which was quickly being made obsolete by technological advances. The Washington State Guard and American Legion volunteers provided sentries and a cordon of honor outside the church.[5]:168. Photo by ENS Jake Marx. U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Area. As the only Medal of Honor winner in the Coast Guard, the story of Douglas Munro is extremely important. [33] The "Douglas Munro March", composed by Lewis J. Buckley, was debuted by the United States Coast Guard Band on September 26, 1982 at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.[5]:144 In 2014, the Coast Guard Foundation established the Douglas Munro Scholarship Fund. USCGC DOUGLAS MUNRO (WHEC 724) UNIT 100471 BOX 1 FPO AP 96672-7100 . [10][29] Patricia's son, Douglas Sheehan, was named after her brother and joined the Coast Guard Reserve, retiring at the rank of commander. During the Out of Hemisphere patrol Douglas Munro contributed in the relief efforts of the 2004 tsunami providing food and water to Indonesia and later seizing a vessel overtaken by pirates off the Horn of Africa. 51 in June 1979. Phone: (907) 487-5166. Douglas Munro performed this mission with great success, including the seizure of the Korean longliner Dong Won No. Slightly built, Munro spent the week before his induction eating heavily to meet the Coast Guard's minimum weight standard. Using Monssen's signal lamp, Puller ordered the Marines to fight their way to the shore. Command Command_Chief History Reporting Aboard CGC Stratton CGC Waesche. USS DOUGLAS A. MUNRO (DE-422) Crew Links. In 2006 the cutter interdicted two "go-fast" boats working in tandem with 2 tons of cocaine using disabling shots with an MH-68 "Stingray" HITRON. [5]:130–131[28], Munro had a sister, Patricia, who attempted to enlist in the Coast Guard Women's Reserve following her brother's death but was rejected as she was underweight. [5]:41 In preparation for the planned amphibious operations, Navy personnel began training as small boat handlers under Coast Guard tutelage; owing to the shortage of coxswains, Munro and Evans volunteered to join the training. In 2003, the cutter interdicted two "go-fast" boats with 2 tons of cocaine using warning shots across the bow of one with an MH-68 "Stingray" Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron (HITRON). Munro was placed in charge of two landing craft tank (LCT) and eight Higgins boats tasked with transporting the Marines to their landing points. [49], The Veterans of Foreign Wars post in Cle Elum is named the Douglas Munro-Robert H. Brooks VFW Post 1373, and the Anacostia chapter of the Surface Navy Association is officially named the Douglas Munro Chapter. Video of scenes from the annual observances memorializing the death of Douglas Munro on September 27, 2016 in Cle Elum, Washington. [5]:95–96, Following the Allied victory at Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo, Munro and Evans were among Coast Guard and Navy personnel who staffed Naval Operating Base (NOB) Cactus at Lunga Point on the northern coast of Guadalcanal. [31] The former Washington Secretary of State, Ralph Munro, who is not related to Douglas Munro, has said he frequently visits Munro's grave for personal reflection. [5]:138, July 24, 2009 was declared Douglas Munro Memorial Day in the State of Washington by Governor Christine Gregoire.[43]. In 1997, the cutter seized the Russian fishing trawler Chernyayevo in the Bering Sea for violation of the Magnuson-Stevens Fisheries Conservation and Management Act of 1976, setting an important precedent for law enforcement along the U.S./Russia maritime boundary. [29] Munro also had a maternal cousin serving in the Royal Canadian Navy who was among those killed in the sinking of HMCS Guysborough when she was torpedoed by U-868 in 1945. Coast Guard officers, attended by a guard of honor of the Washington State Patrol, lay a wreath at the Medal of Honor memorial in Olympia, Washington on Douglas Munro Memorial Day in 2009. Create New Account. It references the mascots of. HullNumber.com's mission is to provide a means for shipmates to keep in touch with one another. Forgot account? 2009. "[4]:4–5[9] Evans said later that "... seeing my affirmative nod, he smiled with that smile I knew and liked so well, and then he was gone". USCGC Douglas Munro (WHEC-724) is a Hamilton-class High Endurance Cutter of the United States Coast Guard, named for Signalman First Class Douglas A. Munro (1919–1942), the only Coast Guardsman to be awarded the Medal of Honor. 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